Operas

opera by Mozart

opera by George Frideric Handel

Zelmira () is an opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Andrea Leone Tottola. Based on the French play, Zelmire by de Belloy, it was the last of the composer's Neapolitan operas. Stendhal called its music Teutonic, comparing it with La clemenza di Tito but remarking: "...while Mozart would probably, had he lived, have grown completely Italian, Rossini may well, by the end of his career, have become more German than Beethoven himself!"

opera by Pietro Mascagni

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold

oratorio by Georg Friedrich Händel

operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein

Opera seria by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

opera by Leoš Janáček

opera by Jacques Offenbach

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opéra comique

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Ambroise Thomas

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Joseph Haydn

opéra comique by Hector Berlioz

Sigismondo is an operatic 'dramma' in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Maria Foppa.

opera by Richard Strauss

opera by Carl Orff

opera by Arnold Schoenberg

one-act comic opera by Gilbert and Sullivan

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gian Carlo Menotti

Ba-ta-clan is a "chinoiserie musicale" (or operetta) in one act with music by Jacques Offenbach to an original French libretto by Ludovic Halévy. It was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Paris, on 29 December 1855. The operetta uses set numbers and spoken dialogue and runs for under an hour.

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Leoš Janáček

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

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.

operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker (1882)

opera by Modest Mussorgsky

opéra comique by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera buffa by Joseph Haydn

Maskarade (Masquerade) is an opera in three acts by Carl Nielsen to a Danish libretto by Vilhelm Andersen, based on the comedy by Ludvig Holberg. It was first performed on 11 November 1906 at Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen. Maskarade has enjoyed enduring popularity in Denmark where it is considered to be the country's national opera.

comic opera by Giovanni Paisiello

Cardillac, Op. 39, is an opera by Paul Hindemith in three acts and four scenes. Ferdinand Lion wrote the libretto based on characters from the short story Das Fräulein von Scuderi by E. T. A. Hoffmann.

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

operetta in three acts by Franz von Suppé

opera by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari

opera by Francesco Cavall

Comédie en vaudeville in three acts

operetta by Carl Zeller

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

Giuditta is an operatic '' (German for musical comedy'') in five scenes, with music by Franz Lehár and a German libretto, by and Fritz Löhner-Beda. Scored for a large orchestra, it was Lehár's last and most ambitious work, written on a larger scale than his previous operettas. Of all his works it is the one which most approaches true opera, the resemblances between the story and that of Bizet's Carmen and its unhappy ending heightening the resonances. Perhaps the best known song in the work is the soprano aria "", sung by Giuditta in the fourth scene. Another strong influence, especially for t

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Adolphe Adam

third opera of the Portrait Trilogy by Philip Glass