List of operas by title

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

For a list by sorted by name of composer, see The opera corpus.

Alphabetical listing

1

* "1000 Airplanes on the Roof", Philip Glass, 1988
* "1492 epopea lirica d'America", Antonio Braga, 1992
* "1984", Lorin Maazel, 2005

A

* "L'abandon d'Ariane", Darius Milhaud, 1928
* "Abu Hassan", Carl Maria von Weber, 1811
* "Acante et Céphise", Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1751
* "The Accacha Chronicles Trilogy", Nicholas Lens, 1994, 1999, 2005
* "Achille et Polyxène", Jean-Baptiste Lully, Pascal Collasse, 1687
* "Acis and Galatea", George Frideric Handel, 1718
* "Acis et Galatée", Jean-Baptiste Lully, 1686
* "Actéon", Marc-Antoine Charpentier, 1683–1685
* "Adelaide", Antonio Sartorio, 1672
* "Adelaide di Borgogna", Gioacchino Rossini, 1817
* "Adelia", Gaetano Donizetti, 1841
* "Adelson e Salvini", Vincenzo Bellini, 1825
* "Admeto", George Frideric Handel, 1727
* "Adriana Lecouvreur", Francesco Cilea, 1902
* "The Adventures of Pinocchio", Jonathan Dove, 2007
* "L'Africaine", Giacomo Meyerbeer, 1865
* "After All!", Alfred Cellier, 1878
* "Ages Ago", Frederic Clay, 1869
* "Agrippina", George Frideric Handel, 1709
* "Die ägyptische Helena", Richard Strauss, 1928
* "Aida", Giuseppe Verdi, 1871
* "Ainadamar", Osvaldo Golijov, 2003
* "Akhnaten", Philip Glass, 1984
* "Alahor in Granata", Gaetano Donizetti, 1826
* "Albert Herring", Britten, 1947
* "Alceste", Gluck, 1767
* "Alcina", Handel, 1735
* "Alessandro", Handel
* "Alessandro nelle Indie", Pacini, 1824
* "Alexander Twice", Martinů, 1964
* "Alzira", Verdi, 1845
* "Amadis", Lully, 1684
* "Amadis", Massenet, 1922
* "Amahl and the Night Visitors", Menotti, 1951
* "Andrea Chénier", Giordano, 1896
* "Angelo", Cui, 1876
* "Aniara", Blomdahl, 1959
* "Anna Bolena", Donizetti, 1830
* "Antigone", Orff, 1949
* "Apollo et Hyacinthus", Mozart, 1767
* "Ariadne auf Naxos", R. Strauss, 1912
* "Ariodante", Handel, 1734
* "Arizona Lady", Kalman, 1954
* "Armide", Gluck, 1777
* "Armide", Lully, 1686
* "Aroldo", Verdi, 1857
* "Artamene", Tomaso Albinoni, 1741
* "Les arts florissants", Charpentier, 1685
* "Ascanio in Alba", Mozart, 1771
* "Attila", Verdi, 1846

B

* "Babes in Toyland", Herbert, 1903
* "Die Bajadere", Kalman, 1921
* "Un ballo in maschera", Verdi, 1859
* "Bang!", Rutter, 1975
* "The Barber of Bagdad", Cornelius, 1858
* "The Barber of Seville", Rossini, 1816
* "The Bartered Bride", Smetana, 1816
* "Beatrix Cenci", Ginastera, 1971
* "Béatrice et Bénédict", Berlioz, 1862
* "The Beggar's Opera", Gay, 1728
* "Belisario", Donizetti, 1836
*"La belle au bois dormant", Carafa, 1825
* "La belle Hélène", Offenbach, 1864
* "Il Bellerofonte", Mysliveček 1767
* "Benvenuto Cellini", Berlioz, 1838
* "Bertha", Rorem, 1973
* "Betrothal in a Monastery", Prokofiev, 1946
* "Billy Budd", Britten, 1951
* "Bitter Sweet", Coward, 1929
* ""'Blue Monday/135th Street, 1929
* "Bluebeard's Castle", Bartók, 1918
* "La bohème", Puccini, 1896
* "La bohème", Leoncavallo, 1897
* "Bomarzo", Ginastera, 1967
* "Les Boréades", Rameau, 1770
* "Boris Godunov", Mussorgsky, 1874
* "Brandenburgers in Bohemia", Smetana, 1866
* "A Brief Life", de Falla, 1913
* "Brundibár", Krása, 1943

C

* "Ça Ira", Waters, 2005
* "Candide", Bernstein, 1956
* "La canterina", Haydn, 1766
* "The Captain's Daughter", Cui, 1911
* "Carmen", Bizet, 1875
* "Casanova's Homecoming", Argento, 1927
* "Cavalleria rusticana", Mascagni, 1890
* "The Cave", Reich, 1994
* "La Cenerentola", Rossini, 1817
* "La Cenicienta", Hen, 1866
* "Charles VI", Halévy, 1843
* "La Clemenza di Tito", Mozart, 1791
* "Comedy on the Bridge", Martinů, 1937
* "Les contes d'Hoffmann", Offenbach, 1881
* "Der Corregidor", Wolf, 1896
* "Così fan tutte", Mozart, 1790
* "The Crucible", Ward, 1961
* "Die Csárdásfürstin", Kalman, 1915
* "The Cunning Little Vixen", Janáček, 1924
* "La Curandera", Robert Xavier Rodriguez, 2006
* "Curlew River", Britten, 1964
* "Cyrano de Bergerac", Alfano, 1936

D

* "Dafne", Peri, 1597
* "Dalibor", Smetana 1868
* "The Dangerous Liaisons", Susa, 1994
* "Dantons Tod", von Einem, 1947
* "Dardanus", Rameau, 1739
* "The Daughter of the Regiment", Donizetti, 1840
* "Dead Man Walking", Heggie, 2000
* "Death in Venice", Britten, 1973
* "The Death of Klinghoffer", Adams, 1991
* "The Desert Song", Romberg, 1926
* "Destiny", Leoš Janáček, 1934
* "The Devil and Kate", Dvořák, 1899
* "The Devil Take Her", Benjamin, 1931
* "Dialogues of the Carmelites", Poulenc, 1957
* "Dido and Aeneas", Purcell, 1689
* "Djamileh", Bizet, 1872
* "Doctor Atomic", John Adams, 2005
* "Don Carlos", Verdi, 1867
* "Don Giovanni", Mozart, 1787
* "Don Pasquale", Donizetti, 1843
* "Don Rodrigo", Ginastera, 1964
* "Don Sanche, ou le Château d'Amour", Liszt, 1825
* "Le donne curiose", Wolf-Ferrari, 1903
* "I due Foscari", Verdi, 1844

E

* "Edgar", Puccini, 1899
* "The Eighth Wonder", John, 1995
* "Einstein on the Beach", Glass, 1976
* "Elektra", R. Strauss, 1909
* "L'elisir d'amore", Donizetti, 1832
* "L'enfant et les sortilèges", Ravel, 1925
* "The English Cat", Henze, 1983
* "Die Entführung aus dem Serail", Mozart, 1782
* "Ernani", Verdi, 1844
* "Ero s onoga svijeta", Gotovac, 1935
* "L'étoile", Chabrier, 1877
* "Eugene Onegin", Tchaikovsky, 1879
* "Euridice", Peri, 1600
* "The Excursions of Mr. Broucek", Janáček, 1920

F

* "Facing Goya", Nyman, 2000
* "The Fair at Sorochyntsi", Mussorgsky, 1913
* "Falstaff", Verdi, 1893
* "La fanciulla del West", Puccini, 1910
* "Die Faschingsfee", Kalman, 1917
* "Faust", Gounod, 1859
* "La favorite", Donizetti, 1840
* "Feast in Time of Plague", Cui, 1901
* "Fedora", Giordano, 1898
* "Die Feen", Wagner, 1833
* "Fidelio", Beethoven, 1805
* "The Fiery Angel", Prokofiev, 1955
* "La fille du régiment", Donizetti, 1840
* "Die Fledermaus", J. Strauss, 1874
* "Le Flibustier", Cui, 1894
* "Florencia en el Amazonas", Catán, 1996
* "The Flying Dutchman", Wagner, 1843
* "La forza del destino", Verdi, 1862
* "Four Saints in Three Acts", Thomson, 1934
* "Francesca of Rimini", Rachmaninoff, 1906
* "Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai)", Zandonai, 1914
* "Der Freischütz", Weber, 1821
* "From the House of the Dead", Janáček, 1930

G

* "Galileo Galilei", Glass, 2002
* "The Gambler" Prokofiev, 1929
* "La gazza ladra" Rossini, 1817
* "Genoveva" Schumann, 1850
* "The Ghosts of Versailles", Corigliano, 1991
* "Gianni Schicchi", Puccini, 1918
* "Gilgamesh", Brucci, 1986
* "La Gioconda", Ponchielli, 1876
* "Un giorno di regno", Verdi, 1840
* "Giovanna d'Arco", Verdi, 1845
* "Giulio Cesare", Handel, 1724
* "Gloriana", Britten 1953
* "The Golden Cockerel", Rimsky-Korsakov, 1907
* "Götterdämmerung", Wagner, 1876
* "Goyescas", Granados, 1916
* "Le Grand Macabre", Ligeti,1978
* "The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif", Hartke, 2006
* "The Greek Passion", Martinů, 1961

H

* "The Handmaid's Tale", Poul Ruders, 2000
* "Hänsel und Gretel", Humperdinck, 1961
* "Háry János", Kodály, 1926
* "Die Herzogin von Chicago", Kalman, 1928
* "L'heure espagnole", Ravel, 1911
* "Die Hochzeit", Wagner, not performed
* "Hugh the Drover", Vaughan Williams, 1958
* "Les Huguenots", Meyerbeer, 1836

I

* "Idomeneo", Mozart 1781
* "Il Guarany", Carlos Gomes 1870
* "L'incoronazione di Poppea", Monteverdi, 1642
* "Iolanthe", Tchaikovsky, 1892
* "Iphigénie en Tauride", Gluck, 1779
* "Iris", Mascagni, 1899
* "The Island of Tulipatan", Offenbach, 1868
* "L'italiana in Algeri", Rossini, 1813
* "Ivan the Fool", Cui "(first performance undetermined)"

J

* "The Jacobin", Dvořák, 1889
* "Jenufa", Janáček, 1904
* "The Jewels of the Madonna", Wolf-Ferrari, 1911
* "Judith", Serov, 1863
* "La Juive", Halévy, 1835
* "Julie", Boesmans, 2005

K

* "Kaiserin Josephine", Kalman, 1936
* "Klutaimnestra" ("Eng: Clytemnestra"), Everson, 1967
* "Káťa Kabanová", Janáček, 1921
* "The Khovansky Affair", Modest Mussorgsky, 1886
* "King Roger", Karol Szymanowski 1926
* "The Knot Garden", Michael Tippett, 1970

L

* "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District", Shostakovich, 1934
* "Lakmé", Delibes, 1883
* "L’amour de loin", Kaija Saariaho, 2000
* "Land of Smiles", Lehár, 1929
* "Leányvásár (The Marriage Market)", Jacobi, 1911
* "The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh", Rimsky-Korsakov, 1912
* "Legvitézebb Huszár (The Brave Hussar)", Jacobi, 1905
* "La liberazione di Ruggiero", Caccini, 1625
* "The Little Prince ", Portman, 2003
* "Little Red Riding Hood", Cui, (1921?)
* "Lohengrin ", Wagner, 1850
* "I Lombardi", Verdi, 1843
* "Lord Byron", Thomson, 1972
* "Louise", Charpentier, 1900
* "Louis Riel", Somers, 1967
* "The Love for Three Oranges", Prokofiev, 1921
* "Lucia di Lammermoor", Donizetti, 1835
* "Lucrezia Borgia", Donizetti, 1834
* "Luisa Miller", Verdi, 1849
* "Lulu", Berg, 1937
* "Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow)", Lehár, 1905
* "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (The Merry Wives of Windsor)", Nicolai, 1849

M

* "Macbeth", Verdi, 1844
* "Madama Butterfly", Puccini, 1904
* "Mademoiselle Fifi", Cui, 1903
* "The Maid of Orleans", Tchaikovsky 1881
* "The Makropulos Affair", Janáček, 1926
* "Les mamelles de Tirésias" Poulenc 1947
* "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", Nyman 1986
* "The Mandarin's Son" Cui, 1878
* "Manon", Massenet, 1884
* "Manon Lescaut", Puccini, 1893
* "Margaret Garner", Danielpour, 2005
* "María de Buenos Aires", Piazzolla, 1968
* "Maria Golovin", Menotti 1958
* "Maria Stuarda" Donizetti, 1835
* "The Marriage of Figaro", Mozart, 1786
* "Martha", Flotow, 1847
* "The Mask of Orpheus", Birtwistle, 1968
* "I masnadieri", Verdi, 1847
* "Masquerade", Nielsen, 1906
* "Mateo Falcone", Cui, 1907
* "Mathis der Maler", Hindemith 1938
* "Il matrimonio segreto", Cimarosa, 1792
* "Mavra", Stravinsky, 1922
* "May Night", Rimsky-Korsakov, 1880
* "Mazepa (or Mazeppa)", Tchaikovsky, 1884
* "Médée", Cherubini, 1797
* "Médée", Charpentier, 1693
* "The Medium", Menotti, 1946
* "Mefistofele", Boito, 1868
* "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", Wagner, 1868
* "The Merry Widow", Lehár, 1905
* "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Nicolai, 1849
* "A Midsummer Night's Dream", Britten, 1960
* "Mignon", Thomas, 1866
* "The Mines of Sulphur", Bennett, 1963
* "The Miserly Knight", Rachmaninoff, 1906
* "Miss Julie", Rorem, 1965
* "Mlada", Cui, Borodin, Mussorgsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov "(collaborative work of 1872, never staged)"
* "Mlada", Rimsky-Korsakov, 1890
* "Motezuma", Vivaldi, 1733
* "Mozart and Salieri", Rimsky-Korsakov, 1898

N

* "Nabucco", Verdi, 1842
* "Eine Nacht in Venedig", J. Strauss, 1883
* "The New Moon", Romberg, 1928
* "Nicholas and Alexandra", Drattell, 2003
* "Nina", Paisiello, 1789
* "Nixon in China", Adams, 1972
* "Norma", Bellini, 1831
* "The Nose", Shostakovich, 1930

O

* "Oberto", Verdi, 1839
* "L'oca del Cairo", Mozart, 1783
* "Oédipe" George Enescu 1936
* "Oedipus Rex" Igor Stravinsky 1927
* "The Old Maid and the Thief", Menotti, 1939
* "Oresteia", Taneyev, 1895
* "Orfeo", Monteverdi, 1607
* "Orfeo ed Euridice", Gluck, 1762
* "Orlando furioso", Vivaldi, 1727
* "Orphée aux enfers", Offenbach, 1858
* "Otello", Verdi 1887
* "Otello", Rossini, 1816
* "Owen Wingrave", Britten, 1971

P

* "Pagliacci", Leoncavallo, 1892
* "Paradise Lost", Penderecki, 1978
* "Parsifal", Wagner, 1882
* "Les pêcheurs de perles", Bizet, 1863
* "Pelléas et Mélisande", Debussy, 1902
* "Peter Grimes", Britten, 1945
* "Porgy and Bess", Gershwin, 1935
* "Porin", Lisinski, 1851
* "Powder Her Face", Thomas Adès, 1995
* "The Power of the Fiend", Serov, 1871
* "Prince Igor", Borodin, 1890
* "Prisoner of the Caucasus", Cui, 1883
* "I puritani", Bellini, 1835
* "Puss in Boots", Cui, 1915

Q

* "I quattro rusteghi", Wolf-Ferrari, 1906
* "The Queen of Spades", Tchaikovsky, 1890
* "A Quiet Place", Bernstein, 1983

R

* "Radamisto", Handel, 1720
* "The Rake's Progress", Stravinsky, 1951
* "The Rape of Lucretia", Britten, 1946
* "A rátartós királykisasszony (The Haughty Princess)", Jacobi, 1904
* "Il rè pastore", Mozart, 1775
* "El retablo de Maese Pedro", de Falla, 1923
* "Das Rheingold", Wagner, 1869
* "Rienzi", Wagner, 1842
* "Rigoletto", Verdi, 1851
* "Rinaldo", Handel, 1711
* "Der Ring des Nibelungen", Wagner, 1876
* "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny", Weill, 1930
* "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria", Monteverdi, 1640
* "Roberto Devereux", Donizetti, 1837
* "Rodelinda", Handel, 1725
* "Rogneda", Serov, 1865
* "Le roi de Lahore", Massenet, 1877
* "Roméo et Juliette", Gounod, 1867
* "La rondine", Puccini, 1917
* "Der Rosenkavalier", R. Strauss, 1911
* "Rusalka", Dargomyzhsky, 1856
* "Rusalka", Dvořák, 1901
* "Ruslan and Lyudmila", Glinka, 1842

* "Sadko", Rimsky-Korsakov, 1898
* "Saint-François d'Assise", Messiaen, 1983
* "The Saint of Bleecker Street", Menotti, 1954
* "Salammbô", Reyer, 1890
* "Salome", R. Strauss, 1905
* "Samson", Handel, 1743
* "Samson et Dalila", Saint-Saëns, 1877
* "Sant'Alessio", Landi, 1632
* "The Saracen", Cui, 1899
* "Šárka", Janáček, 1925
* "Satyagraha", Glass, 1980
* "Der Schauspieldirektor", Mozart, 1786
* "Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes", Mozart, 1767
* "Semele", Eccles, written 1707
* "Semele", Handel, 1744
* "Semiramide", Rossini, 1823
* "Serse", Handel, 1738
* "Le siège de Corinthe", Rossini, 1826
* "Shining Brow", Hagen, 1992
* "Siegfried ", Wagner, 1876
* "Simon Boccanegra", Verdi, 1857
* "Simplicius", J. Strauss, 1887
* "The Snow Bogatyr", Cui, 1906
* "The Snow Maiden", Rimsky-Korsakov, 1882
* "Il sogno di Scipione", Mozart, 1772
* "La sonnambula", Bellini, 1831
* "Sorochintsy Fair" — see "The Fair at Sorochyntsi"
* "Lo sposo deluso", Mozart, 1783
* "The Stone Guest", Dargomyzhsky, 1872
*"Street Scene", Weill, 1947
* "Suor Angelica", Puccini, 1918
* "Susannah", Floyd, 1955
* "Švanda the Bagpiper", Weinberger, 1927
* "Szibill (Sybill)", Jacobi, 1914

T

* "Il tabarro", Puccini, 1918
* "The Tale of Tsar Saltan", Rimsky-Korsakov, 1900
* "Tancredi", Rossini, 1813
* "Tannhäuser", Wagner, 1845
* "Tartuffe", Mechem, 1980
* "De Temporum Fine Comoedia", Orff, 1973
*"The Tempest", Thomas Adès, 2004
* "The Tender Land", Copland, 1954
* "Thaïs", Massenet, 1894
* "The Threepenny Opera", Weill, 1928
* "Three Tales", Reich, 2002
* "Tosca", Puccini 1900
* "La traviata" Verdi, 1853
* "Tristan und Isolde", Wagner, 1865
* "Trouble in Tahiti", Bernstein, 1952
* "Il trovatore", Verdi, 1853
* "Les Troyens", Berlioz 1863
* "The Tsar's Bride", Rimsky-Korsakov, 1899
* "Turandot", Puccini, 1926
* "Il turco in Italia", Rossini, 1814
* "The Turn of the Screw", Britten, 1954

V

* "Vanessa", Barber, 1958
* "Veinticinco de agosto, 1983", Solare,
* "La vestale", Spontini, 1807
* "Le Villi", Puccini, 1884
* "Volo di Notte", Dallapiccola, 1940
* "Les vêpres siciliennes", Verdi, 1855
* "Venus and Adonis", Blow, c.1683

W

* "Die Walküre", Wagner, 1870
* "La Wally", Catalani, 1892
* "War and Peace", Prokofiev, 1946
* "A Wedding", Bolcom, 2004
* "Werther", Massenet, 1892
* "What Men Live By", Martinů, 1953
* "William Ratcliff", Cui, 1869
* "William Tell", Rossini, 1829
* "Wozzeck", Berg, 1925

Y

* "Yerma", Villa-Lobos, 1971

Z

* "Zaide", Mozart, 1866 (written 1780)
* "Die Zauberflöte", Mozart, 1791

ee also

*List of important operas — list of well-known and notable operas
*The opera corpus — list, by composer, of important operas with/without Wikipedia entries
*Category: