A list of famous operas along with the composer and the year it was written
Opera | Composer | Year Composed |
---|---|---|
Aida | Verdi | 1871 |
Boris Godunov | Mussorgsky | 1874 |
Carmen | Bizet | 1875 |
Cavalleria Rusticana | Mascagni | 1890 |
Cosi fan tutte | Mozart | 1790 |
Der Rosenkavalier | Richard Strauss | 1911 |
Dido and Aeneas | Purcell | 1689 |
Don Giovanni | Mozart | 1787 |
Eugene Onegin | Tchaikovsky | 1879 |
Fidelio | Beethoven | 1805 |
I Pagliacci | Leoncavallo | 1892 |
La Boheme | Puccini | 1896 |
La Traviata | Verdi | 1853 |
Madame Butterfly | Puccini | 1904 |
Orfeo | Monteverdi | 1607 |
Orpheus and Eurydice | Gluck | 1762 |
Otello | Verdi | 1887 |
Parsifal | Wagner | 1882 |
Pelleas et Melisande | Debussy | 1902 |
Peter Grimes | Britten | 1945 |
Prince Igor | Borodin | 1890 |
Rigoletto | Verdi | 1851 |
Salome | Richard Strauss | 1905 |
Siegfried | Wagner | 1876 |
Tannhauser | Wagner | 1845 |
The Barber of Seville | Rossini | 1816 |
The Bartered Bride | Smetana | 1866 |
The Magic Flute | Mozart | 1791 |
The Marriage of Figaro | Mozart | 1786 |
The Merry Widow | Lehar | 1905 |
The Rake's Progress | Stravinsky | 1951 |
The Rhine Gold | Wagner | 1869 |
The Ring of the Nibelungs | Wagner | 1876 |
The Tales of Hoffman | Offenbach | 1881 |
The Threepenny Opera | Weill | 1927 |
The Twilight of the Gods | Wagner | 1876 |
The Valkyrie | Wagner | 1870 |
Tosca | Puccini | 1900 |
Tristan and Isolde | Wagner | 1865 |
Turandot | Puccini | 1926 |