Operas

opera by Kaija Saariaho

Opera by Gioachino Rossini

oratorio in three acts by George Frideric Handel

opera melodramma in three acts by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Jules Massenet

opera by Benjamin Britten

opera by Franz Schubert

opera by George Frideric Handel

opera by György Ligeti

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Filippo Amadei, Giovanni Bononcini, and George Frideric Handel

opera by Emilio de' Cavalieri

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Arthur Sullivan

opéra comique by François-Adrien Boieldieu

opera by Carl Orff

surrealist opéra bouffe by Francis Poulenc

opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer

opera in five acts by Sergei Prokofiev

opera in two acts by Domenico Cimarosa

1924 opera by Mykola Lysenko

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Emmerich Kálmán

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera in three acts and three scenes by Mascagni

opera by Ferenc Erkel

thumb|upright=1.1|George Frideric HandelFloridante (HWV 14) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel. The Italian-language libretto was by Paolo Antonio Rolli after Francesco Silvani's libretto for Marc'Antonio Ziani dramma per musica La costanza in trionfo of 1696.

Opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opéra comique

thumb|upright=1.1|George Frideric Handel

opera by Ernst Křenek

opera by Luigi Dallapiccola

opera by Emmanuel Chabrier

opéra by Bedřich Smetana

opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

operetta

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

Croatian opera by Ivan Zajc

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

thumb|upright=1.1|George Frideric Handel '''''''''' ("Admetus, King of Thessaly", HWV 22) is a three-act opera written for the Royal Academy of Music with music composed by George Frideric Handel to an Italian-language libretto prepared by Nicola Francesco Haym. The story is partly based on Euripides' Alcestis. The opera's first performance was at the Haymarket Theatre in London on 31 January 1727. The original cast included Faustina Bordoni as Alcestis and Francesca Cuzzoni as Antigona, as Admeto was the second of the five operas that Handel composed to feature specifically these two '''' of

opera in three acts by Michael William Balfe

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Gabriel Fauré

thumb|Title page of the original libretto

opera by Benjamin Britten

tragédie en musique (early French opera) by Jean-Baptiste Lully

'''''''' (Expectation''), Op. 17, is a one-act monodrama in four scenes by Arnold Schoenberg to a libretto by . Composed in 1909, it was not premiered until 6 June 1924 in Prague conducted by Alexander Zemlinsky with Marie Gutheil-Schoder as the soprano. The opera takes the unusual form of a monologue for solo soprano accompanied by a large orchestra. In performance, it lasts for about half an hour. It is sometimes paired with Béla Bartók's opera ''Bluebeard's Castle (1911), as the two works were roughly contemporary and share similar psychological themes. Schoenberg described Erwartung'', say

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Adolphe Adam

opéra by Luigi Cherubini

Esclarmonde () is an opéra () in four acts and eight tableaux, with prologue and epilogue, by Jules Massenet, to a French libretto by Alfred Blau and Louis Ferdinand de Gramont. It was first performed at the Exposition Universelle on 15 May 1889 by the Opéra-Comique at the Théâtre Lyrique on the Place du Châtelet in Paris.

opera by Georg Friedrich Händel

opera by Bedřich Smetana

Dinorah, originally Le pardon de Ploërmel (The Pardon of Ploërmel), is an 1859 French opéra comique in three acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré. The story takes place near the rural town of Ploërmel and is based on two Breton tales by Émile Souvestre, "La Chasse aux trésors" and "Le Kacouss de l'Armor", both published separately in 1850 in the Revue des deux mondes.

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Antonio Vivaldi

opera by Joseph Haydn

opera by Heinrich Marschner