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  2. List of prominent operas - Wikipedia

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    This list provides a guide to the most prominent operas, as determined by their presence on a majority of selected compiled lists, which date from between 1984 and 2000. The operas included cover all important genres, and include all operas regularly performed today, from seventeenth-century works to late twentieth-century operas.

  3. List of major opera composers - Wikipedia

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    Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) The only true successor to Giuseppe Verdi in Italian opera, [50] Puccini's Tosca, La bohème and Madama Butterfly are among the most popular and well-recognised in the repertoire today. Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956) French composer famous for a single opera, Louise, set in a working class district of Paris. [51]

  4. Italian opera - Wikipedia

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    Many famous operas in Italian were written by foreign composers, including Handel, Gluck and Mozart. Works by native Italian composers of the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Rossini , Bellini , Donizetti , Verdi and Puccini , are amongst the most famous operas ever written and today are performed in opera houses across the world.

  5. List of operas by title - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given. For a list of operas sorted by name of composer, see List of operas by composer.

  6. List of operas by Gioachino Rossini - Wikipedia

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    The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote 39 between 1806 and 1829. Adopting the opera buffa style of Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello , Rossini became the dominant composer of Italian opera during the first half of the 19th-century.

  7. List of compositions by George Frideric Handel - Wikipedia

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    Arrangement of the overture to the Italian opera "Il pastor fido" 456-2 Arrangement c. 1720–1727 Arrangement of the overture to the Italian opera "Amadigi" 456-3 Arrangement c. 1720–1727 Arrangement of the overture to the Italian opera "Flavio" 456-4 Arrangement c. 1720–1727 Arrangement of the overture to the Italian opera "Rodelinda" 456-5

  8. List of operas by Claudio Monteverdi - Wikipedia

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    The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) wrote several works for the stage between 1604 and 1643, including ten in the then-emerging opera genre. Of these, both the music and libretto for three are extant: L'Orfeo (1607), Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (1640) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (1643). Seven other opera projects are known ...

  9. List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini - Wikipedia

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    The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is regarded as the natural successor to the tradition of Giuseppe Verdi and is considered the greatest Italian opera proponent of his time. Best known for his 12 operas , his style quickly departed from the predominant Romantic Italian style and he emerged as the most significant representative ...