Operas set in London

1928 musical play by Bertolt Brecht; adapted from John Gay's 18th-century ballad opera The Beggar's Opera with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

ballad opera by John Gay (1728)

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Igor Stravinsky

opera by Richard Strauss

Gloriana, Op. 53, is an opera in three acts by Benjamin Britten to an English libretto by William Plomer, based on Lytton Strachey's 1928 Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History. The first performance was presented at the Royal Opera House, London, in 1953 during the celebrations of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. Gloriana was the name given by the 16th-century poet Edmund Spenser to his character representing Queen Elizabeth I in his poem The Faerie Queene. It became the popular name given to Elizabeth I.

opera by Arthur Sullivan

opera by Benjamin Britten

comic opera by Domenico Cimarosa

thumb|Cover of piano transcriptions, 1887 Iolanthe; or, The Peer and the Peri () is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert, first performed in 1882. It is one of the Savoy operas and is the seventh of fourteen operatic collaborations by Gilbert and Sullivan. In the opera, the fairy Iolanthe has been banished from fairyland because she married a mortal; this is forbidden by fairy law. Her son, Strephon, is an Arcadian shepherd who wants to marry Phyllis, a Ward of Chancery. All the members of the House of Peers also want to marry Phyllis. When Phyllis sees Str

opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo

comédie mêlée d'ariettes, a kind of opéra comique, by the French composer François-André Danican Philidor

opera by Ambroise Thomas