List of operas by title
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.
Alphabetical listing
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1000 Airplanes on the Roof, Philip Glass, 19881492 epopea lirica d'America, Antonio Braga, 19921984, Lorin Maazel, 2005Le 66, Jacques Offenbach, 1856A
L'abandon d'Ariane, Darius Milhaud, 1928Abu Hassan, Carl Maria von Weber, 1811Acante et Céphise, Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1751Achille et Polyxène, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pascal Collasse, 1687Acis and Galatea, George Frideric Handel, 1718Acis et Galatée, Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1686Actéon, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 1683–1685Adelaide, Antonio Sartorio, 1672Adelaide di Borgogna, Gioachino Rossini, 1817Adelia, Gaetano Donizetti, 1841Adelson e Salvini, Vincenzo Bellini, 1825Admeto, Handel, 1727Adriana Lecouvreur, Francesco Cilea, 1902Adriana Mater, Kaija Saariaho, 2008The Adventures of Pinocchio, Jonathan Dove, 2007L'Africaine, Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1865After All!, Alfred Cellier, 1878Ages Ago, Frederic Clay, 1869Agrippina, Handel, 1709Die ägyptische Helena, Richard Strauss, 1928Aida, Giuseppe Verdi, 1871Ainadamar, Osvaldo Golijov, 2003Akhnaten, Philip Glass, 1984Alahor in Granata, Gaetano Donizetti, 1826Albert Herring, Britten, 1947Alceste, Gluck, 1767Alceste, Handel, 1750Alceste, Lully, 1674Alcina, Handel, 1735Alessandro, Handel, 1726Alessandro nelle Indie, Pacini, 1824Alexander Twice, Martinů, 1964Alzira, Verdi, 1845Amadis, Lully, 1684Amadis, Massenet, 1922Amahl and the Night Visitors, Menotti, 1951An American Tragedy, Picker, 2005Amelia, Hagen, 2010L'amico Fritz, Pietro Mascagni, 1891L'Amour de loin, Kaija Saariaho, 2000Andrea Chénier, Giordano, 1896L'Ange de Nisida, Donizetti, 1839Angelo, Cui, 1876Aniara, Blomdahl, 1959Anna Bolena, Donizetti, 1830Anna Nicole, Mark-Anthony Turnage, 2011Antigonae, Orff, 1949Apollo et Hyacinthus, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1767Aquarius, Karel Goeyvaerts, 2009Arabella, Richard Strauss, 1933Ariadne auf Naxos, R. Strauss, 1912Ariodante, Handel, 1734Arizona Lady, Emmerich Kálmán, 1954L'arlesiana, Cilea, 1897Armida, Dvořák, 1904Armida, Rossini, 1817Armide, Gluck, 1777Armide, Lully, 1686Aroldo, Verdi, 1857Artamene, Tomaso Albinoni, 1741Les arts florissants, Charpentier, 1685Ascanio in Alba, Mozart, 1771Assassinio nella cattedrale, Pizzetti, 1958Atmen gibt das Leben, Stockhausen, 1977Attila, Verdi, 1846Atys, Lully, 1676Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny, Weill, 1930B
Babes in Toyland, Herbert, 1903Babylon, Widmann, 2012Die Bajadere, Kálmán, 1921Un ballo in maschera, Verdi, 1859Bandanna, Hagen, 1998Bang!, Rutter, 1975Der Barbier von Bagdad, Cornelius, 1858Il barbiere di Siviglia, Rossini, 1816- The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern, Arnold, 1781The Bartered Bride, Smetana, 1866Beatrix Cenci, Ginastera, 1971Béatrice et Bénédict, Berlioz, 1862The Beggar's Opera, Gay, 1728Belisario, Donizetti, 1836La belle au bois dormant, Carafa, 1825La belle au bois dormant, Lecocq, 1900La belle Hélène, Offenbach, 1864Il Bellerofonte, Mysliveček, 1767Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz, 1838Bertha, Rorem, 1973Betrothal in a Monastery, Prokofiev, 1946Billy Budd, Britten, 1951Bitter Sweet, Coward, 1929Blue, Tesori, 2019Blue Monday/135th Street, Gershwin, 1929Bluebeard's Castle, Bartók, 1918La bohème, Puccini, 1896La bohème, Leoncavallo, 1897Bomarzo, Ginastera, 1967Les Boréades, Rameau, 1770Boris Godunov, Mussorgsky, 1874The Brandenburgers in Bohemia, Smetana, 1866The Bravest Hussar, Jacobi, 1905Brundibár, Krása, 1943
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Ça Ira, Waters, 2005Candide, Bernstein, 1956La canterina, Haydn, 1766Capriccio, Richard Strauss, 1942The Captain's Daughter, Cui, 1911Cardillac, Paul Hindemith, 1926Carmen, Bizet, 1875Casanova's Homecoming, Argento, 1985Cavalleria rusticana, Mascagni, 1890The Cave, Reich, 1994Cendrillon, Massenet, 1899La Cenerentola, Rossini, 1817La Cenicienta, Hen, 1966Champion, Terence Blanchard, 2013Charles VI, Halévy, 1843Charlotte Corday, Lorenzo Ferrero, 1989Chopin, Giacomo Orefice, 1901Le Cid, Massenet, 1885Clementina, Boccherini, 1787La clemenza di Tito, Mozart, 1791Cold Mountain, Jennifer Higdon, 2015Comedy on the Bridge, Martinů, 1937Le comte Ory, Rossini, 1828La Conquista, Ferrero, 2005Les contes d'Hoffmann, Offenbach, 1881Der Corregidor, Wolf, 1896Così fan tutte, Mozart, 1790Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Thomas Wilson, 1976 Scottish Opera The Countess, Moniuszko, 1860The Crucible, Ward, 1961Die Csárdásfürstin, Kálmán, 1915The Cunning Little Vixen, Janáček, 1924La Curandera, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, 2006Curlew River, Britten, 1964Cyrano de Bergerac, Alfano, 1936D
Dafne, Peri, 1597Dalibor, Smetana, 1868La damnation de Faust, Berlioz, 1893The Dangerous Liaisons, Susa, 1994Dantons Tod, Einem, 1947Daphne, Strauss, 1938Dardanus, Rameau, 1739Dardanus, Sacchini, 1784Dead Man Walking, Heggie, 2000Death in Venice, Britten, 1973The Death of Klinghoffer, Adams, 1991The Desert Song, Romberg, 1926Destiny, Leoš Janáček, 1934The Devil and Kate, Dvořák, 1899The Devil Take Her, Benjamin, 1931Dialogues des Carmélites, Poulenc, 1957Dido and Aeneas, Purcell, 1689Dienstag aus Licht, Stockhausen, 1993Djamileh, Bizet, 1872Doctor Atomic, John Adams, 2005Dolores Claiborne, Picker, 2013Don Carlos, Verdi, 1867Don Giovanni, Mozart, 1787Don Pasquale, Donizetti, 1843Don Rodrigo, Ginastera, 1964Don Sanche, ou le Château d'Amour, Liszt, 1825La donna del lago, Rossini, 1819Le donne curiose, Wolf-Ferrari, 1903Donnerstag aus Licht, Stockhausen, 1981Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Huang Ruo, 2014I due Foscari, Verdi, 1844E
Edgar, Puccini, 1899The Eighth Wonder, John, 1995Einstein on the Beach, Glass, 1976Elektra, R. Strauss, 1909L'elisir d'amore, Donizetti, 1832Emmeline, Picker, 1996L'enfant et les sortilèges, Ravel, 1925The English Cat, Henze, 1983Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Mozart, 1782Ernani, Verdi, 1844Ero s onoga svijeta, Gotovac, 1935Ercole amante, Bembo, 1707Esclarmonde, Massenet, 1888L'étoile, Chabrier, 1877Eugene Onegin, Tchaikovsky, 1879Euridice, Peri, 1600Euryanthe, Weber, 1823Evangeline, Luening, 1986Everest, Talbot, 2015The Excursions of Mr. Broucek, Janáček, 1920F
Facing Goya, Nyman, 2000The Fair at Sorochyntsi, Mussorgsky, 1913Falstaff, Verdi, 1893La fanciulla del West, Puccini, 1910Fantastic Mr. Fox, Picker, 1998Die Faschingsfee, Kálmán, 1917Faust, Gounod, 1859La favorite, Donizetti, 1840A Feast in Time of Plague, Cui, 1901A Feast in the Time of Plague, Alex Woolf, 2020Fedora, Giordano, 1898Die Feen, Wagner, 1833Feuersnot, Richard Strauss, 1901Fidelio, Beethoven, 1805The Fiery Angel, Prokofiev, 1955La figlia del mago, Ferrero, 1981La fille du régiment, Donizetti, 1840The Finnish Prisoner, Orlando Gough, 2007Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Terence Blanchard, 2019Die Fledermaus, J. Strauss, 1874Le Flibustier, Cui, 1894Der fliegende Holländer, Wagner, 1843Florencia en el Amazonas, Catán, 1996La forza del destino, Verdi, 1862Four Saints in Three Acts, Thomson, 1934Francesca da Rimini, Zandonai, 1914Francesca da Rimini, Rachmaninoff, 1906Der Freischütz, Weber, 1821Freitag aus Licht, Stockhausen, 1996From the House of the Dead, Janáček, 1930G
Galileo Galilei, Glass, 2002The Gambler Prokofiev, 1929- The Garden of Mystery, Cadman, 1925La gazza ladra Rossini, 1817Geneviève de Brabant, Offenbach, 1859Genoveva Schumann, 1850Das Gesicht im Spiegel, Widmann, 2003The Ghosts of Versailles, Corigliano, 1991Gianni Schicchi, Puccini, 1918Gilgamesh, Brucci, 1986La Gioconda, Ponchielli, 1876Un giorno di regno, Verdi, 1840Giovanna d'Arco, Verdi, 1845Giulio Cesare, Handel, 1724Gloriana, Britten, 1953The Golden Cockerel, Rimsky-Korsakov, 1907The Gondoliers, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1889Götterdämmerung, Wagner, 1876Goyescas, Granados, 1916The Grand Duke, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1896Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti, 1978The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif, Hartke, 2006The Great Friendship, Muradeli, 1947The Greek Passion, Martinů, 1961Grounded, Tesori, 2023Il Guarany, Carlos Gomes, 1870A Guest of Honor, Joplin, 1903Guillaume Tell, Rossini, 1829
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Hagith, Karol Szymanowski, 1922Halka, Moniuszko, 1854The Handmaid's Tale, Poul Ruders, 2000Hänsel und Gretel, Humperdinck, 1893Háry János, Kodály, 1926The Haughty Princess, Jacobi, 1904The Haunted Manor, Moniuszko, 1865Die heilige Ente, Gál, 1923Helvellyn, Macfarren, 1864Die Herzogin von Chicago, Kálmán, 1928L'heure espagnole, Ravel, 1911HMS Pinafore, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1878Die Hochzeit, Wagner, not performedHugh the Drover, Vaughan Williams, 1924Les Huguenots, Meyerbeer, 1836Hippolyte et Aricie, Rameau, 1733I
The Ice Break, Tippett, 1977Idomeneo, Mozart, 1781L'incoronazione di Poppea, Monteverdi, 1642Les Indes galantes, Rameau, 1735Iolanta, Tchaikovsky, 1892Iolanthe, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1882Iphigénie en Tauride, Gluck, 1779Iris, Mascagni, 1899The Island of Tulipatan, Offenbach, 1868L'italiana in Algeri, Rossini, 1813Ivan the Fool, Cui ''''J
The Jacobin, Dvořák, 1889Jenůfa, Janáček, 1904Jérusalem, Giuseppe Verdi, 1847The Jewels of the Madonna, Wolf-Ferrari, 1911Judith, Serov, 1863Juha, Aarre Merikanto, 1922/63La Juive, Halévy, 1835Julie, Boesmans, 2005The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, Foss, 1950K
Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Ullmann, 1975Kaiserin Josephine, Kálmán, 1936Die Kalewainen in Pochjola, K. Müller-Berghaus, 1890/2017Káťa Kabanová, Janáček, 1921The Khovansky Affair, Modest Mussorgsky, 1886King Roger, Karol Szymanowski, 1926King Priam, Michael Tippett, 1962Koanga, Frederick Delius, 1935Die Königin von Saba, Karl Goldmark, 1875The Knot Garden, Michael Tippett, 1970Krútňava, Eugen Suchoň, 1949L
Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District, Shostakovich, 1934Lakmé, Delibes, 1883Das Land des Lächelns, Lehár, 1929The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh, Rimsky-Korsakov, 1912Leo, the Royal Cadet, Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann, George Frederick Cameron, 1889The Letter, Paul Moravec, 2009La liberazione di Ruggiero, Caccini, 1625Das Liebesverbot, Wagner, 1836Life is a Dream, Lewis Spratlan, 2010The Little Prince, Portman, 2003Little Red Riding Hood, Cui, Little Women (opera), Mark Adamo, 1999Lohengrin, Wagner, 1850I Lombardi alla prima crociata, Verdi, 1843Lord Byron, Thomson, 1972Loreley, Catalani, 1890Louise, Charpentier, 1900Louis Riel, Somers, 1967The Love for Three Oranges, Prokofiev, 1921- Le loup-garou, Bertin, 1827Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti, 1835Lucio Silla, Mozart, 1772Lucrezia Borgia, Donizetti, 1834Luisa Miller, Verdi, 1849Lulu, Berg, 1937Die lustige Witwe, Lehár, 1905Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor, Nicolai, 1849
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Macbeth, Verdi, 1844Madama Butterfly, Puccini, 1904Mademoiselle Fifi, Cui, 1903The Maid of Orleans, Tchaikovsky, 1881The Makropulos Affair, Janáček, 1926Les mamelles de Tirésias Poulenc, 1947The Man and Men, Joshua Goodman, 2010The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Nyman, 1986The Mandarin's Son Cui, 1878Manon, Massenet, 1884Manon Lescaut, Puccini, 1893Maometto II, Gioachino Rossini, 1820Mare nostro, Lorenzo Ferrero, 1985Margaret Garner, Danielpour, 2005María de Buenos Aires, Piazzolla, 1968Maria Golovin, Menotti, 1958Maria Stuarda Donizetti, 1835Marilyn, Ferrero, 1980The Marriage Market, Jacobi, 1911 Martha, Flotow, 1847Les martyrs, Donizetti, 1840The Mask of Orpheus, Birtwistle, 1968I masnadieri, Verdi, 1847Masquerade, Nielsen, 1906Mateo Falcone, Cui, 1907Mathis der Maler, Hindemith, 1938Il matrimonio segreto, Cimarosa, 1792Mavra, Stravinsky, 1922May Night, Rimsky-Korsakov, 1880Mazepa (or Mazeppa), Tchaikovsky, 1884Médée, Cherubini, 1797Médée, Charpentier, 1693The Medium, Menotti, 1946Mefistofele, Boito, 1868Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Wagner, 1868The Merchant Kalashnikov, Anton Rubinstein, 1880La Merope, Giacomelli, 1734The Midsummer Marriage, Michael Tippett, 1955A Midsummer Night's Dream, Britten, 1960Mignon, Thomas, 1866The Mikado, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1885The Mines of Sulphur, Bennett, 1963The Miserly Knight, Rachmaninoff, 1906Miss Julie, Rorem, 1965Mittwoch aus Licht, Stockhausen, 2012Mlada, Cui, Borodin, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov, Mlada, Rimsky-Korsakov, 1890Montag aus Licht, Stockhausen, 1988Moses und Aron, Schoenberg, 1957The Most Important Man, Menotti, 1957Motezuma, Vivaldi, 1733Mozart and Salieri, Rimsky-Korsakov, 1898N
Nabucco, Verdi, 1842Eine Nacht in Venedig, J. Strauss, 1883Nędza uszczęśliwiona, Maciej Kamieński, 1778The New Moon, Romberg, 1928Nicholas and Alexandra, Drattell, 2003The Nightingale, Stravinsky, 1914Nina, Paisiello, 1789El Niño, John Adams, 2000Nixon in China, Adams, 1987Norma, Bellini, 1831The Nose, Shostakovich, 1930Le nozze di Figaro, Mozart, 1786O
Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio, Verdi, 1839L'oca del Cairo, Mozart, 1783An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Musgrave, 1981Oédipe, George Enescu, 1936Oedipus Rex, Igor Stravinsky, 1927The Old Maid and the Thief, Menotti, 1939Operation Orfeo, Bo Holten, 1993Das Opfer, Winfried Zillig, 1937L'Oracolo, Franco Leoni, 1905Oresteia, Taneyev, 1895L'Orfeo, Monteverdi, 1607Orfeo ed Euridice, Gluck, 1762Orlando furioso, Vivaldi, 1727Orphée aux enfers, Offenbach, 1858Orphée et Eurydice, Gluck, 1774Oscar, Theodore Morrison, 2013Otello, Verdi, 1887Otello, Rossini, 1816Owen Wingrave, Britten, 1971P
Pagliacci, Leoncavallo, 1892Paradise Lost, Penderecki, 1978Parsifal, Wagner, 1882Patience, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1881Le Pays, Ropartz, 1912Les pêcheurs de perles, Bizet, 1863Pelléas et Mélisande, Debussy, 1902Peter Grimes, Britten, 1945Le piccole storie, Ferrero, 2007 The Pirates of Penzance, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1879Polyphème, Cras, 1945Porgy and Bess, Gershwin, 1935Porin, Lisinski, 1851Powder Her Face, Thomas Adès, 1995The Power of the Fiend, Serov, 1871Prince Igor, Borodin, 1890Princess Ida, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1884La Principessa Liana, Schipa, 1929Prisoner of the Caucasus, Cui, 1883I puritani, Bellini, 1835Puss in Boots, Cui, 1915Q
I quattro rusteghi, Wolf-Ferrari, 1906The Queen of Spades, Tchaikovsky, 1890A Quiet Place, Bernstein, 1983R
Radamisto, Handel, 1720The Rake's Progress, Stravinsky, 1951The Rape of Lucretia, Britten, 1946Rappacini's Daughter, Garwood, 1980Il rè pastore, Mozart, 1775El retablo de Maese Pedro, de Falla, 1923Das Rheingold, Wagner, 1869Rienzi, Wagner, 1842Rigoletto, Verdi, 1851Rinaldo, Handel, 1711Der Ring des Nibelungen, Wagner, 1876Río de Sangre, Don Davis, 2010Risorgimento!, Lorenzo Ferrero, 2011Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, Monteverdi, 1640Roberto Devereux, Donizetti, 1837Rodelinda, Handel, 1725Rogneda, Serov, 1865Le Roi Arthus, Ernest Chausson, 1903Le roi de Lahore, Massenet, 1877Roméo et Juliette, Gounod, 1867La rondine, Puccini, 1917Der Rosenkavalier, R. Strauss, 1911The Rose of Castille, Michael Balfe, 1857Ruddigore, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1887Rusalka, Dargomyzhsky, 1856Rusalka, Dvořák, 1901Ruslan and Lyudmila, Glinka, 1842S
Sadko, Rimsky-Korsakov, 1898Saint-François d'Assise, Messiaen, 1983The Saint of Bleecker Street, Menotti, 1954Salammbô, Reyer, 1890Salome, R. Strauss, 1905Salvatore Giuliano, Lorenzo Ferrero, 1986Samson, Handel, 1743Samstag aus Licht, Stockhausen, 1984Samson et Dalila, Saint-Saëns, 1877Il Sant'Alessio, Landi, 1632The Saracen, Cui, 1899Šárka, Janáček, 1925Satyagraha, Glass, 1980The Scarecrow, Turrin, 2006The Scarlet Letter, Laitman, 2008, rev. 2016Der Schauspieldirektor, Mozart, 1786Der Schmied von Gent, Schreker, 1932Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, Mozart, 1767Schwanda the Bagpiper, Weinberger, 1927- La secchia rapita, Salieri, 1772Semele, Eccles, written 1707Semele, Handel, 1744Semiramide, Rossini, 1823Serse, Handel, 1738Shell Shock, Nicholas Lens, 2014Le siège de Corinthe, Rossini, 1826Siren Song, Jonathan Dove, 1994Shining Brow, Hagen, 1992The Sho-Gun, Ade and Luders, 1904Siegfried, Wagner, 1876Simon Boccanegra, Verdi, 1857Simplicius, J. Strauss, 1887The Skating Rink, Sawer, 2018Slow Man, Nicholas Lens, 2012The Snow Bogatyr, Cui, 1906The Snow Maiden, Rimsky-Korsakov, 1882Il sogno di Scipione, Mozart, 1772La sonnambula, Bellini, 1831Sonntag aus Licht, Stockhausen, 2011The Sorcerer, Gilbert and Sullivan, 1877Sorochintsy Fair — see The Fair at SorochyntsiLo sposo deluso, Mozart, 1783Stiffelio, Giuseppe Verdi, 1850The Stone Guest, Dargomyzhsky, 1872Street Scene, Weill, 1947The Summer King, Daniel Sonenberg, 2017Suor Angelica, Puccini, 1918Susannah, Floyd, 1955Svätopluk, Suchoň, 1960Szibill, Jacobi, 1914