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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.
Lists of operas cover operas, a form of theatre in which music is essential, and the roles are portrayed by singers. There are general lists and lists by theme, country, medium and venue. There are general lists and lists by theme, country, medium and venue.
"Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre" (Toreador's Song) 74 Eugene Onegin: Tchaikovsky "Kuda vy udalilis" (Lensky's aria) 73 Aida: Verdi "O terra, addio" (act 4 final duet) 72 Götterdämmerung: Wagner Immolation of Brünnhilde 71 Lakmé: Delibes "Où va la jeune Indoue" (Bell Song) 70 Andrea Chénier: Giordano "La mamma morta" 69 The Merry ...
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.
This is a list of musical compositions by Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880). Offenbach is principally known for his operettas, of which he composed 98 between 1847 and 1880. He also wrote two opéras, Die Rheinnixen and his unfinished masterpiece Les contes d'Hoffmann. [1]
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 ...
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Opera seria was the most prestigious form of Italian opera, until Christoph Willibald Gluck reacted against its artificiality with his "reform" operas in the 1760s. The most renowned figure of late 18th-century opera is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage ...