Verismo operas

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder, and suicide, as well as some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias.

opera by Pietro Mascagni

Pagliacci (; literal translation, 'Clowns') is an Italian opera in a prologue and two acts, with music and libretto by Ruggero Leoncavallo. The opera tells the tale of Canio, actor and leader of a commedia dell'arte theatrical company, who murders his wife Nedda and her lover Silvio on stage during a performance. Canio portrays on stage the character of Pagliaccio (Pierrot), while Nedda portays Pierrot's unfaithful lover Columbina.

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera composed in 1934 by George Gershwin

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera composed by Umberto Giordano

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera by Francesco Cilea

operas by Giacomo Puccini

opera by Umberto Giordano

opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo

opera by Umberto Giordano

opera by Pietro Mascagni

opera by Franco Alfano

opera by Riccardo Zandonai

opera by Umberto Giordano

Risurrezione (Resurrection), is an opera or dramma in four acts by Franco Alfano. The libretto was written by Camillo Antona Traversi and Cesare Hanau (only Hanau signed it), based on the 1899 novel Resurrection () by Leo Tolstoy. The first performance was given on 30 November 1904 in the , Turin, Italy.

opera by Italo Montemezzi

opera by Umberto Giordano

opera by Umberto Giordano

Italian opera by Umberto Giordano

opera by Alberto Franchetti

opera in a prologue and three acts by Italo Montemezzi

opera by Francesco Cilea

opera by Alberto Franchetti

La leggenda di Sakùntala is a three-act opera by Franco Alfano, who wrote his own libretto based on Kālidāsa's 5th-century-CE drama Shakuntala. It was completed in 1920. When the score was believed lost in wartime bombing, Alfano reconstructed it, in 1945, now titling it simply Sakùntala, but in 2006 a copy of the original was found.