Operas

opera by Francesco Cilea

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

Zaide (originally, Das Serail) is an unfinished German-language opera, K. 344, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. Emperor Joseph II, in 1778, was in the process of setting up an opera company for the purpose of performing German opera. One condition required of the composer to join this company was that he should write a comic opera. At Salzburg in 1779 Mozart began work on a new opera (now known as Zaide although Mozart did not give it such a title). It contains spoken dialogue, which also classifies it as a Singspiel (literally, "singing play"). Only the arias and ensembles fro

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Giuseppe Verdi

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Richard Wagner

opera by Glinka

opera by Mikhail Glinka

operetta composed by Johann Strauss II

opera buffa in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck from 1767

Ariodante (HWV 33) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The anonymous Italian libretto was based on a work by Antonio Salvi, which in turn was adapted from Canti 4, 5 and 6 of Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso. Each act contains opportunities for dance, originally composed for dancer Marie Sallé and her company.

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

opera by Claudio Monteverdi

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Richard Strauss

Její pastorkyňa (Her Stepdaughter; commonly known as Jenůfa ) is an opera in three acts by Leoš Janáček to a Czech libretto by the composer, based on the play Její pastorkyňa by Gabriela Preissová. It was first performed at the National Theatre, Brno on 21 January 1904. Composed between 1896 and 1902, it is among the first operas written in prose.

opera by Gioacchino Rossini

Aroldo () is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on and adapted from their earlier 1850 collaboration, Stiffelio. The opera premiered in Rimini's Teatro Nuovo Comunale on 16 August 1857.

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

unfinished opera by Alban Berg

opera by Gioachino Rossini

3-act opera seria by G. F. Händel with libretto by Cardinal Vincenzo Grimani about Agrippina, the mother of Nero, who plots the downfall of Claudius to install Nero as emperor; premiered in Venice at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo on 26 Dec. 1709

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opéra comique by Luigi Cherubini

opera by Carl Maria von Weber

operas by Giacomo Puccini

opéra in five acts by Charles Gounod

Stiffelio is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, from an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The origin of this was the novel Le pasteur d’hommes, by Émile Souvestre, which was published in 1838. This was adapted into the French play ''Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer by Souvestre together with Eugène Bourgeois. (Its premiere was on 10 February 1849 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris.) That play was in turn translated into Italian by Gaetano Vestri as Stifellius''; this formed the basis of Piave's libretto.

opera-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau

opera by Gioachino Rossini

1885 comic opera by Gilbert & Sullivan

Iolanta, Op. 69, ( ) is a lyric opera in one act by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. It was the last opera he composed. The libretto was written by the composer's brother Modest Tchaikovsky, and is based on the Danish play '' (King René's Daughter'') by Henrik Hertz, a romanticised account of the life of Yolande de Bar. In the original Danish play, the spelling of the princess's name was "Iolanthe", later adopted for the otherwise unrelated Gilbert and Sullivan operetta of that name. The play was translated by Fyodor Miller and adapted by Vladimir Zotov. The opera received its premiere on 18 December 1892 i

opéra comique by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

1929 operetta by Franz Lehár, revised version of his 1923 operetta Die gelbe Jacke

opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff

operetta by Emmerich Kálmán

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Jacopo Peri

opera by Igor Stravinsky

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Dafne (, Italian for "Daphne") is the earliest known work that, by modern standards, could be considered an opera. The libretto by Ottavio Rinuccini, based on an earlier intermedio created in 1589, "Combattimento di Apollo col serpente Pitone" ("the battle between Apollo and Python"), and set to music by Luca Marenzio, survives complete. The opera is considered to be the first "modern music drama."

French-language opera by Francis Poulenc

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Hector Berlioz

pastoral opera in two parts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by John Adams

Arabella, Op. 79, is a lyric comedy, or opera, in three acts by Richard Strauss to a German libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, their sixth and last operatic collaboration.

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Hector Berlioz

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Gioachino Rossini