Opéras-ballets

opera by Giacomo Puccini

opera-ballet by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Opéra-ballet (; plural: opéras-ballets) is a genre of French Baroque lyric theatre that was most popular during the 18th century, combining elements of opera and ballet, "that grew out of the ballets à entrées of the early seventeenth century". It differed from the more elevated tragédie en musique as practised by Jean-Baptiste Lully in several ways. It contained more dance music than the tragédie, and the plots were not necessarily derived from classical mythology and allowed for the comic elements, which Lully had excluded from the tragédie en musique after Thésée (1675). The opéra-ballet co

1697 opéra-ballet by André Campra

opera by Rimsky-Korsakov 1890

opera by André Compra

opera by Francesco Sacrati

opera

opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry

opera by André Cardinal Destouches

opera by Luigi Cherubini

opera

lyric opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau