Operas set in France

opera by Richard Wagner

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Manon () is an opéra comique in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel ''L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut'' by the Abbé Prévost. It was first performed at the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 19 January 1884, with sets designed by Eugène Carpezat (act 1), Auguste Alfred Rubé and Philippe Chaperon (acts 2 and 3), and Jean-Baptiste Lavastre (act 4).

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

Iolanta, Op. 69, ( ) is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was the last opera he composed. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play '' (King René's Daughter'') by Henrik Hertz, a romanticised account of the life of Yolande de Bar. In the original Danish play, the spelling of the princess's name was "Iolanthe", later adopted for the otherwise unrelated Gilbert and Sullivan operetta of that name. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov. The opera received its premiere on 18 December 1892 i

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Richard Strauss

Euryanthe (J. 291, Op. 81) is a German grand heroic-romantic opera by Carl Maria von Weber, first performed at the Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna on 25 October 1823. Though acknowledged as one of Weber's most important operas, the work is rarely staged because of the weak libretto by Helmina von Chézy (who, incidentally, was also the author of the failed play Rosamunde, for which Franz Schubert wrote music). Euryanthe is based on the 13th-century French romance ''L'Histoire du très-noble et chevalereux prince Gérard, comte de Nevers et la très-virtueuse et très chaste princesse Euriant de Sa

opera by Gaetano Donizetti and Gaetano Rossi

opera by Pyotr Tchaikovsky

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opéra comique

opera by Krzysztof Penderecki

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera comica in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Pietro Mascagni

surrealist opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc

() is an opera in three acts by Francesco Cilea to an Italian libretto by Leopoldo Marenco. It was originally written in four acts, and was first performed on 27 November 1897 at the Teatro Lirico in Milan. It was revised as a three-act opera in 1898, and a prelude was added in 1937.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Dinorah, originally Le pardon de Ploërmel (The Pardon of Ploërmel), is an 1859 French opéra comique in three acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. The story takes place near the rural town of Ploërmel and is based on two Breton tales by Émile Souvestre, "La Chasse aux trésors" and "Le Kacouss de l'Armor", both published separately in 1850 in the Revue des deux mondes.

thumb|Cover of piano score, 1919|alt=cover with ornamental lettering and image of young woman in early 20th century evening costume, with elaborately feathered hat Zazà () is an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo, with a libretto by the composer, which draws on the same material as the French play Zaza (1898). The story concerns the French music hall singer, Zazà, and her affair and subsequent decision to leave her lover, Milio, when she discovers that he is married. The music is influenced by the French music halls where Leoncavallo had spent his early years as a composer.

opera by Édouard Lalo

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Franco Alfano

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera farsa in one act by Gaetano Donizetti

Opera by George Benjamin

opera in three acts by Luigi Cherubini

opera by Carl Millöcker (1879)

opera written by Jacques Offenbach

opéra comique by Charles Gounod

opera by Franz Schmidt

1888 opera by Benjamin Godard

opera by Alfred Bruneau

opera by Léo Delibes

operetta of Johann Strauss II written to a libretto by A. M. Willner and Bernhard Buchbinder

opera by Gottfried von Einem

opéra-comique by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Ferdinand Hérold

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Jules Massenet

Opera by Deems Taylor

opera by Charles Gounod

opera by Edmond Audran

poème lyrique or opera by composer Gustave Charpentier

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy

opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy