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Operas with entries in The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera ed. Paul Gruber (Thames and Hudson, 1993). ISBN 0-393-03444-5 and/or Metropolitan Opera Stories of the Great Operas ed. John W Freeman (Norton, 1984). ISBN 0-393-01888-1; List of operas and their composers in Who's Who in British Opera ed. Nicky Adam (Scolar Press, 1993).
Composers with recordings included in The Penguin Guide to Opera on Compact Discs ed. Greenfield, March and Layton (1993 edition) ISBN 0-14-046957-5. The New Kobbe's Opera Book, ed. Lord Harewood (1997 edition) ISBN 0-399-14332-7. "Table of Contents of The Rough Guide to Opera". Amazon UK. by Matthew Boyden. (2002 edition) ISBN 1-85828-749-9. Note:
Considered one of the greatest operas ever written, [1] it is a cornerstone of the repertoire and appears consistently among the top ten in the Operabase list of most frequently performed operas. [2] In 2017, BBC News Magazine asked 172 opera singers to vote for the best operas ever written.
Knowing the work only from a piano reduction, the British critic W. J. Turner declared in his 1934 book on Berlioz that Les Troyens was "the greatest opera ever written." American critic B. H. Haggin heard in the work Berlioz's "arrestingly individual musical mind operating in, and commanding attention with, the use of the [Berlioz] idiom with ...
The libretto has survived for some of these lost operas. The opera genre emerged during Monteverdi's earlier career, first as courtly entertainment trying to revive Greek theatre. [1] The first known work to be regarded as an opera in the modern sense is Dafne (1598) by Jacopo Peri, and his Euridice (1600) is the earliest surviving one. [2]
At the time, it was considered one of the most successful operas ever staged in England, [1] and its admirers included Samuel Johnson, William Hazlitt and George Byron (the latter called it "the best opera ever written" [2]).
The list includes composers' principal operas and those of historical importance in the development of the art form. It covers the full historical period from the birth of opera in the late 16th century to the present day, and includes all forms of opera from light music to more formal styles.
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.