The World of Opera

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Operas

Brief history

Voice types

1842 - Glinka -Ruslan and Ludmila

Baroque Era

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

1607 - Monteverdi - The Fable of Orpheus

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

1689 - Purcell - Dido and Aeneas

George Frederick Handel (1685-1759)

1724 - Handel - Julius Caesar

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)

1733 - Pergolesi - The Servant Turned Mistress

Classical Era

Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787)

1762 - Gluck - Orpheus and Eurydice

1767 - Gluck - Alceste

Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801)

1792 - Cimarosa - The Secret Marriage

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

1767 - Mozart - Apollo et Hyacinthus

1768 - Mozart - Bastien und Bastienne

1768 - Mozart - La finta semplice

1770 - Mozart - Mitridate,
re di Ponto

1771 - Mozart - Ascanio in Alba

1772 - Mozart - Il sogno di Scipione

1772 - Mozart - Lucio Silla

1773 - Mozart - Thamos, king of Egypt

1775 - Mozart - La
finta giardiniera

1775 - Mozart - Il re pastore

1779 - Mozart - Zaide

1781 - Mozart - Idomeneo

1782 - Mozart - The Abduction from the Seraglio

1783 - Mozart - L'oca del Cairo

1785 - Mozart - Lo sposo deluso

1786 - Mozart - Der schauspieldirector

1786 - Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro

1787 - Mozart - Don Juan

1790 - Mozart - Thus Do They All, or The School for Lovers

1791 - Mozart - The Magic Flute

1791 - Mozart - La clemenza di Tito

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)

1805 - Beethoven - Fidelio

Romantic Era

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

1821 - Weber - The Free-Shooter

1826 - Weber - Oberon

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)

1831 - Meyerbeer - Robert the Devil

1836 - Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots

1849 - Meyerbeer - The Prophet

1865 - Meyerbeer - The African Maid

Giacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)

1813 - Rossini - Tancredi

1813 - Rossini - Italian Girl in Algers

1814 - Rossini - The Turk in Italy

1816 - Rossini - The Barber of Seville

1816 - Rossini - Otello

1817 - Rossini - The Thieving Magpie

1817 - Rossini - Cinderella

1817- Rossini - Armida

1818 - Rossini - Moses in Egypt

1819 - Rossini - Ermione

1819 - Rossini - The Lady of the Lake

1820 - Rossini - Maometto Secondo

1821 - Rossini - Matilde of Shabran

1823 - Rossini - Semiramide

1828 - Rossini - Le comte Ory

1829 - Rossini - William Tell

1829 - Donizetti - Il Castello di Kenilworth

1830 - Donizetti - Anna Bolena

1832 - Donizetti - The Elixir of Love

1835 - Donizetti - Lucy of Lammermoor

1830 - Bellini - The Capulets and the Montagues

1831 - Bellini - Norma

1831 - Bellini - La Sonnambula

1835 - Bellini - The Puritans

1842 - Glinka -Ruslan and Ludmila

Richard Wagner (1813-1883)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

1842 - Verdi - Nabucco

1844 - Verdi - Ernani

1851 - Verdi - Rigoletto

1853 - Verdi - The Troubadour

1865 - Verdi - Macbeth

1867 - Verdi - Don Carlos

1871 - Verdi - Aida

1887 - Verdi - Otello

1893 - Verdi - Falstaff

Charles Francois Gounod (1818-1893)

1859 - Gounod - Faust

1867 - Gounod - Romeo and Juliet

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

1858 - Offenbach - Orfeus in the Underworld

1864 - Offenbach - The Beautiful Helen

1881 - Offenbach - Tales of Hoffmann

Bedrich Snetana (1824-1884)

1866 - Smetana - The Bartered Bride

Johann Strauss (1825-1899)

1874 - Johann Strauss - The Bat

1875 - Johann Strauss - The Gypsy Baron

Alexander Borodin (1834-1887)

1890 - Borodin - Prince Igor

1874 - Moussorgsky - Boris Godounoff

Modest Mousorgsky (1835-1881)

1877 - Saint-Saëns - Samson and Delilah

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

Leo Delibes (1836-1891)

1883 - Delibes - Lakmé

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

1875 - Bizet - Carmen

Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

1879 - Tchaikovsky - Eugen Onegin

1890 - Tchaikovsky - The Queen of Spades

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

1901 - Dvorak - Rusalka

Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)

1868 - Boito -
Mephistopheles

Getano Donizetti (1797-1848)

1835 - Donizetti - Maria Stuarda

1837 - Donizetti - Roberto Devereux

1840 - Donizetti - The Favorite

1843 - Donizetti - Don Pasquale

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

1846 - Berlioz -The Damnation of Faust

1863 - Berlioz - The Trojans

Michail Glinka (1804-1857)

1843 - Wagner - The Flying Dutchman

1845 - Wagner - Tannhauser

1850 - Wagner - Lohengrin

1865 - Wagner - Tristan and Isolde

1868 - Wagner - The Mastersingers of Nurenberg

1869-1882 - Wagner - The Ring of the Nibelung
1869 - Das Rheingold

1869-1882 - Wagner - The Ring of the Nibelung
1870 - Die Walkure

1869-1882 - Wagner - The Ring of the Nibelung
1876 - Siegfried

1869-1882 - Wagner - The Ring of the Nibelung
1876 - Die Gotterdammerung

1882 - Wagner - Parsifal

1853 - Verdi - La Traviata

1857 - Verdi - Simon Boccanegra

1859 - Verdi - A masked ball

1862 - Verdi - The Force of Destiny

Jules Massenet (1842-1912)

1877 - Massenet - The King of Lahore

1881 - Massenet - Herodiade

1884 - Massenet - Manon

1885 - Massenet - Le Cid

Composers

1892 - Massenet - Werter

1894 - Massenet - Thaïs

1899 - Massenet - Cinderella

1910 - Massenet - Don Quichotte

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

1909 - Rimsky-Korsakov - The Golden Cockerel

Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)

1893 - Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel

Leos Janacek (1854-1928)

1904 - Janacek - Jenufa

Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)

1892 - Leoncavallo - Pagliacci

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

1893 - Puccini - Manon Lescaut

1896 - Puccini - The Bohemians

1900 - Puccini - Tosca

1904 -Puccini - Madama Butterfly

1910 - Puccini - The Girl of the Golden West

1917 - Puccini - The Swallow

1918 - Puccini - The Cloak

1918 - Puccini - Sister Angelica

1918 - Puccini - Gianni Schicchi

1926 - Puccini - Turandot

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

1902 - Debussy - Pelleas and melisande

Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)

1890 - Mascagni - Rustic Chivalry

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

1905 - Richard Strauss - Salome

1909 - Richard Strauss - Electra

1911 - Richard Strauss - The Knight of the Rose

1912 - Richard Strauss - Ariadne on Naxos

1919 - Richard Strauss - The Woman without a Shadow

1933 - Richard Strauss - Arabella

1935 - Richard Strauss - The Silent Woman

1942 - Richard Strauss - Capriccio

Franz Lehar (1870-1948)

1905 - Lehar - The Merry Widow

1909 - Lehar - The Count of Luxembourg

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

1911 - Ravel - The Spanish Hour

Modern Period

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

1918 - Bartok - Bluebeard's Castle

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

1914 - Stravinsky - The Nightingale

1922 - Stravinsky - Mavra

1927 - Stravinsky - Oedipus Rex

1951 - Stravinsky - The Rake's Progress

Emmerich Kalman (1882-1953)

1915 - Kalman - The Csardas Princess

1921 - Kalman - Die Bajadere

1924 - Kalman - Countess Mariza

1926 -Kalman - The Circus Princess

Alban Berg (1885-1935)

1925 - Berg - Wozzeck

1937 - Berg - Lulu

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

1921 - Prokofie - The Love for Three Oranges

1946 - Prokofiev - War and Peace

George Gershwin (1898-19374)

1935 - Gershwin - Porgy and Bess

Dmitri Schostakovich (1906-1975)

1934 - Schostakovich - Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

1945 - Britten - Peter Grimes

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

1956 - Bernstein - Candide

1957 - Bernstein - West Side Story

Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948)

1970 - Webber - Jesus Christ Superstar

1981 - Webber - Cats

1986 -Webber - The Phantom of the Opera

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