Rescue operas

Fidelio (; ), originally titled '''''''' (Leonore, or The Triumph of Marital Love''), Op. 72, is the sole opera by German composer Ludwig van Beethoven. The libretto was originally prepared by Joseph Sonnleithner from the French of Jean-Nicolas Bouilly. The opera premiered at Vienna's Theater an der Wien on 20 November 1805. The following year, Beethoven's friend Stephan von Breuning rewrote the libretto, shortening the work from three acts to two. After further work on the libretto by Georg Friedrich Treitschke, a final version was performed at the Kärntnertortheater on 23 May 1814. As these

opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck

Czech opera in three acts by Bedřich Smetana

opera by Gioachino Rossini

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opéra comique by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opéra by Luigi Cherubini

opera in three acts by Luigi Cherubini

opera genre

drame en prose mêlé de musique in three acts

thumb|Luigi Cherubini Faniska is an opera eroica in three acts by Luigi Cherubini. The German libretto, by Joseph Sonnleithner, is based on the melodrama Les mines de Pologne (1803) by René-Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt.

opera by Johann Simon Mayr

Euphrosine, ou Le tyran corrigé (Euphrosine, or The Tyrant Reformed) is an opera, designated as a 'comédie mise en musique', by the French composer Étienne Nicolas Méhul with a libretto by François-Benoît Hoffman. It was the first of Méhul's operas to be performed, and established his reputation as a leading composer of his time. The premiere was given by the Comédie-Italienne at the first Salle Favart in Paris on 4 September 1790.

opera by Ferdinando Paër

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry