Operas set in mythological places

1791 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

'''' (Italian for Idomeneus, King of Crete, or, Ilia and Idamante; usually referred to simply as Idomeneo, K. 366) is an Italian-language opera seria by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, based on a 1705 play by Crébillion père, which had been set to music by André Campra as Idoménée'' in 1712. Mozart and Varesco were commissioned in 1780 by Karl Theodor, Elector of Bavaria for a court carnival. He probably chose the subject, though it may have been Mozart. The work premiered on 29 January 1781 at the Cuvilliés Theat

opera by Antonín Dvořák

1902 opera by Claude Debussy

opera by Richard Wagner

opera by Carl Maria von Weber

Opera in three acts by Richard Strauss

opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky

thumb|275px|Karlheinz Stockhausens grave with the score to LICHT . Licht (Light), subtitled "Die sieben Tage der Woche" (The Seven Days of the Week), is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2003. The composer described the work as an "eternal spiral" because "there is neither end nor beginning to the week." Licht consists of 29 hours of music.

opera by Arthur Sullivan

opera by Heinrich Marschner

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Ernest Reyer

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 Zacharia Paliashvili