Operas set in the 16th century

grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

opera by Gioacchino Rossini

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opera by Paul Hindemith

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.

Croatian opera by Ivan Zajc

opera by Hans Pfitzner

opera by Emmanuel Chabrier

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

1890 opera composed by Alfredo Catalani

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Ernst Krenek

opera by Georges Bizet

opera in two acts, op. 34 by Alberto Ginastera

opera by Conradin Kreutzer

opera by Ambroise Thomas

opera by Lorenzo Ferrero

Haydée, ou Le secret is an opéra comique by the French composer Daniel Auber, first performed by the Théâtre Royal de l'Opéra-Comique at the Salle Favart in Paris on 28 December 1847. The libretto (in three acts) is by Auber's regular collaborator, Eugène Scribe and is based on a short story by Prosper Mérimée, La Partie de trictrac (1830).

Fiesque (The Genoese Conspiracy) is an opera in three acts by the French composer Édouard Lalo. The libretto, by Charles Beauquier, is based on Schiller's 1784 play, Die Verschwörung des Fiesco zu Genua, an account of the conspiracy in 1547 led by Giovanni Luigi Fieschi against the ruling Doria family. Although completed in 1868, it was not staged until 16 June 2007 when it premiered at the Nationaltheater in Mannheim.

opera by Peter Maxwell Davies

thumb|Title page of the libretto (1763) Zanaida is a three-act opera seria with music by Johann Christian Bach and libretto based on Metastasio's Siface, re di Numidia by Giovanni Gualberto Bottarelli who relocated the action from North Africa to Persia. It debuted at the His Majesty's Theatre, London, on 7 May 1763.

zarzuela composed by Jacinto Guerrero