Operas set in Spain

Carmen () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opéra-Comique in Paris on 3 March 1875, where its breaking of conventions shocked and scandalised its first audiences. Bizet died suddenly after the 33rd performance, unaware that the work would achieve international acclaim within the following ten years. Carmen has since become one of the most popular and frequently performed operas in the classical canon; the "Hab

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

1816 opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Fidelio (; ), originally titled '''''''' (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love''), Op. 72, is the sole opera by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly. The opera premiered at Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20 November 1805. The following year, Beethoven's friend Stephan von Breuning rewrote the libretto, shortening the work from three acts to two. After further work on the libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke, a final version was performed at the Kärntnertortheater on 23 May 1814. As these

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on the 1830 play Hernani by Victor Hugo.

1840 opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Maurice Ravel

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Mozart

opera by Manuel de Falla

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

Elvida is a melodramma or opera in one act by Gaetano Donizetti. Giovanni Schmidt wrote the Italian libretto. The opera was written as a ''pièce d'occasion'' for the birthday of Queen Maria of the Two Sicilies. The choice of subject matter was no doubt intended as an elegant acknowledgement of the Queen's Spanish ancestry. Donizetti received little financial reward for the work and, as a result, put the minimum of effort into its composition.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

comic opera by Giovanni Paisiello

opera by Jules Massenet

opéra comique by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

opera in a prologue and two acts by Eugen d'Albert

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

one act puppet-opera by Manuel de Falla

thumb|upright=1.3|Nicolas Poussin's painting of The Continence of Scipio, depicting his return of a captured young woman to her fiancé, having refused to accept her from his troops as a prize of war Scipione (HWV 20), also called Publio Cornelio Scipione, is an opera seria in three acts, with music composed by George Frideric Handel for the Royal Academy of Music in 1726. The librettist was Paolo Antonio Rolli. Handel composed Scipione whilst in the middle of writing Alessandro. It is based on the life of the Roman general Scipio Africanus. Its slow march is the regimental march of the Grenadi

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Enrique Granados

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Hugo Wolf

opera by Gaetano Donitetti

opera by Riccardo Zandonai

opera by Conradin Kreutzer

thumb|alt=brightly coloured illustration of an archway of a Moorish with an external staircase and Moorish landscape beyond; a woman stands on the stairs, as an armed man waits at the foot of them, both dressed in exotic robes|1874 illustration for vocal score of Giroflé-Girofla Giroflé-Girofla is an opéra bouffe in three acts with music by Charles Lecocq. The French libretto was by Albert Vanloo and Eugène Leterrier. The story, set in 13th century Spain, concerns twin brides, one of whom is abducted by pirates. The other twin poses as both brides until the first is rescued. The composer chos

opera by Luigi Cherubini

opera by Emil von Reznicek

opera by Giuseppe Gazzaniga

opera by Isaac Albéniz

opera in three acts composed by Enrique Granados to a Spanish libretto by José Feliú i Codina based on his 1896 play of the same name

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

zarzuela by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

thumb|Sheet music cover to Maritana Maritana is a three-act opera including both spoken dialogue and some recitatives, composed by William Vincent Wallace, with a libretto by Edward Fitzball (1792–1873). The opera is based on the 1844 French play Don César de Bazan by Adolphe d'Ennery and Philippe François Pinel (Dumanoir), which was also the source material for Jules Massenet's opéra comique Don César de Bazan (the character of Don César de Bazan first appeared in Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas). The opera premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on 15 November 1845.

opera by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

zarzuela by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri

zarzuela by Amadeo Vives

opera by Luigi Boccherini

opera by Alberto Franchetti

'''''L'ebreo''''' (The Hebrew) is an 1855 opera by Giuseppe Apolloni to a libretto by Antonio Boni adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novella Leila; or, The Siege of Granada of 1838. It premiered on 25 January 1855 at La Fenice, Venice.

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Saverio Mercadante