Unfinished operas

thumb|Libretto, 1926 Turandot ( ; see below) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni. Puccini died in 1924, and his opera was left unfinished. The music was completed by Franco Alfano and premiered on 25 April 1926, almost a year and a half after Puccini's death. The opera is set in China and follows the Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold-hearted Princess Turandot. In order to win her hand in marriage, a suitor must solve three riddles, with a wrong answer resulting in his execution. Calaf passes the test, but Turando

opéra fantastique by Jacques Offenbach

Khovanshchina (, sometimes rendered The Khovansky Affair) is an opera (subtitled a 'national music drama') in five acts by Modest Mussorgsky. The work was written between 1872 and 1880 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The composer wrote the libretto based on historical sources. The opera was almost finished in piano score when the composer died in 1881, but the orchestration was almost entirely lacking.

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

unfinished opera by Alban Berg

opera by Richard Wagner

Opera by Alexander Dargomyzhsky

opera by Mozart

'''''L'Africaine''' (The African Woman) is an 1865 French grand opéra in five acts with music by Giacomo Meyerbeer and a libretto by Eugène Scribe. Meyerbeer and Scribe began working on the opera in 1837, using the title L'Africaine, but around 1852 changed the plot to portray fictitious events in the life of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and introduced the working title Vasco de Gama'', the French version of his name. The copying of the full score was completed the day before Meyerbeer died in 1864.

opera by Mozart

opera by Modest Mussorgsky

opera by Arnold Schoenberg

opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Pascal Collasse

opera by Sergei Prokofiev

opera by Modest Mussorgsky

opera fragment by Bedřich Smetana

opera by Gaetano Donizetti

opera by Carl Maria von Weber

opera by Ferruccio Busoni

opera by Georges Bizet

Zhenitba (, ''Zhenit'ba, Marriage'') is an unfinished opera begun in 1868 by Modest Mussorgsky to his own libretto based on Nikolai Gogol's comedy Marriage. This 1842 play is a satire of courtship and cowardice, which centres on a young woman, Agafya, who is wooed by four bachelors, each with his own idiosyncrasies.

unfinished opera by Alexander von Zemlinsky

opera by Armen Tigranian

opera by Claudio Monteverdi

unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich

unfinished opera by Hector Berlioz

or (Briséïs, or the Lovers of Corinth) is an operatic by Emmanuel Chabrier with libretto by Catulle Mendès and Ephraïm Mikaël after Goethe's .

opera by Rachmaninoff

unfinished Singspiel by Richard Wagner

lyric opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau

unfinished opera by Claude Debussy