Operas

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Adolphe Adam

third opera of the Portrait Trilogy by Philip Glass

opera by Paul Dukas

thumb|right|The composer in an 1850 daguerreotype

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

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

Teuzzone is the twelfth Italian opera composed by Antonio Vivaldi in 1719 to a libretto by Apostolo Zeno of 1706, which was first performed at the Teatro Arciducale in Mantua.

opera by Pietro Mascagni

thumb|Poster for a performance of Brundibár, Theresienstadt, 1944. Brundibár is a children's opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krása with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister, made most famous by performances by the children of Theresienstadt concentration camp (Terezín) in occupied Czechoslovakia. The name comes from a Czech colloquialism for a bumblebee.

opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff

Belisario (Belisarius) is a tragedia lirica (tragic opera) in three acts by Gaetano Donizetti. Salvadore Cammarano wrote the Italian libretto after Luigi Marchionni's adaptation of play, Belisarius, first staged in Munich in 1820 and then (in Italian) in Naples in 1826. The plot is loosely based on the life of the famous general Belisarius of the 6th century Byzantine Empire.

opera by Antonio Salieri

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Carlos Gomes

opera by Jules Massenet

opéra comique by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber

opera by Joseph Haydn

opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff

opera by Viktor Ullmann

opera comica in two acts by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Antonio Salieri

opera by György Ligeti

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Benjamin Britten

semi-opera by John Dryden and Henry Purcell

oratorio in three acts by George Frideric Handel

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Karol Szymanowski

Orontea is an opera in a prologue and three acts by the Italian composer Antonio Cesti with a libretto by Giacinto Andrea Cicognini (revised by Giovanni Filippo Apolloni).

opera by Albert Lortzing

opera by Charles Gounod

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

opera by Benjamin Britten

operetta by Paul Abraham

thumb|275px|Karlheinz Stockhausens grave with the score to LICHT . Licht (Light), subtitled "Die sieben Tage der Woche" (The Seven Days of the Week), is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2003. The composer described the work as an "eternal spiral" because "there is neither end nor beginning to the week." Licht consists of 29 hours of music.

1874 opera by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

1930 operetta by Ralph Benatzky

Opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

'''''''' (Need for (or lack of) fire), Op. 50, is a Singgedicht'' (sung poem) or opera in one act by Richard Strauss. The German libretto was written by Ernst von Wolzogen, based on J. Ketel's report "Das erloschene Feuer zu Audenaerde". It was Strauss' second opera.

Mrika (Maria) is an opera in three acts composed by Prenkë Jakova with a libretto in Albanian by Llazar Siliqi. It premiered (in a four-act version) in Shkoder, Albania in 1958 at the Migjeni Theatre. The revised three-act version (and the one used today) premiered in Tirana at the Academy of Music and Arts of Albania in December 1959. The work is based on a "musical action" in two scenes, Dritë mbi Shqipëri (Light over Albania), a previous collaboration between Jakova and Siliqi which had premiered in Tirana in July 1952. Mrika is popularly considered to be the first Albanian opera. Its first

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully

opera by Vincenzo Bellini

opera by Tchaikovsky

opera by Georges Bizet

operetta by Franz Lehár

operetta by Jacques Offenbach

opera by George Frideric Handel

opera by Mikhail Matyushin

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Heinrich Marschner

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

Mavra () is a one-act comic opera composed by Igor Stravinsky, and one of the earliest works of Stravinsky's neo-classical period. The libretto, by Boris Kochno, is based on Alexander Pushkin's The Little House in Kolomna. Mavra is about 25 minutes long, and features two arias, a duet, and a quartet performed by its cast of four characters. The opera has been characterised as both an homage to Russian writers, and a satire of bourgeois manners and the Romeo and Juliet subgenre of romance. Philip Truman has also described the music as satirising 19th-century comic opera. The dedication on the s

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.

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Opera by Gioachino Rossini