Operas set in the 15th century

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

1893 opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Fromental Halévy

opera by Gioachino Rossini

thumb|upright=.9|Title page of libretto Tamerlano (Tamerlane, HWV 18) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian libretto was by Nicola Francesco Haym, adapted from Agostino Piovene's Tamerlano together with another libretto entitled Bajazet after Nicolas Pradon's Tamerlan, ou La Mort de Bajazet. The opera was staged by the Royal Academy of Music in the King's Theatre at the Haymarket, London.

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

'''''L'Africaine''' (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title L'Africaine, but around 1852 changed the plot to portray fictitious events in the life of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and introduced the working title Vasco de Gama'', the French version of his name. The copying of the full score was completed the day before Meyerbeer died in 1864.

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Tchaikovsky

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

opera by Leoš Janáček

opera by Josef Mysliveček

opera by Luigi Cherubini

opera by Alberto Franchetti

literary work

'''''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.