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Achille et Déidamie
opera by André Campra
Telemaco
opera by Alessandro Scarlatti
Dafne
opera by Schütz with libretto by Opitz
Gismonda
opera by Henry Février
Étienne Marcel
opera by Camille Saint-Saëns
Antigona
opera by Josef Mysliveček
Prometheus
opera by Carl Orff
Belfagor
Belfagor (premiere 26 April 1923) is an Italian-language opera by the composer Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla (1880–1948) based on the comedy Belfagor of Ercole Luigi Morselli (1882–1921), itself loosely based on the novella Belfagor arcidiavolo by Niccolò Machiavelli. It was premiered in 1923 at La Scala in Milan, under the baton of Antonio Guarnieri, since Toscanini was unavailable. The cast featured Irish soprano Margaret Burke Sheridan as Candida, tenor Francesco Merli as her lover Baldo, and baritone Mariano Stabile as the titular Belfagor, an (Archdemon) who tries t
The Hours
opera by Kevin Puts
Barkouf
thumb|upright|Jacques Offenbach by Nadar, c. 1860s
Demofoonte
opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Elena da Feltre
opera by Saverio Mercadante
La Salustia
opera by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Le château à Toto
opera written by Jacques Offenbach
New Year
opera in three acts by Michael Tippett
Nozze istriane
opera by Antonio Smareglia
Semiramide
opera by Antonio Vivaldi
Arrighetto
Arrighetto is an opera in one act by Carlo Coccia. The Italian-language libretto was by Angelo Anelli, after Madonna Beritola, sixth tale of the second day of the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio. It premiered on 9 January 1813 at the Teatro San Moisè, Venice.
Les Chevaliers de la Table ronde
Opéra bouffe by Hervé
Birzhan and Sara
1946 opera by Mukan Tulebaev
Ascanio
Ascanio is a grand opera in five acts and seven tableaux by composer Camille Saint-Saëns. The opera's French libretto, by Louis Gallet, is based on the 1852 play Benvenuto Cellini by French playwright Paul Meurice which was in turn based on the 1843 historical novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. The name was changed to Ascanio to avoid confusion with the Berlioz opera Benvenuto Cellini. The opera premiered on March 21, 1890, at the Académie Nationale de Musique in Paris, in costumes designed by Charles Bianchini and sets by Jean-Baptiste Lavastre and Eugène Carpezat (acts I; II, scene 2; and III),
La tabernera del puerto
Spanish zarzuela by Pablo Sorozábal
Die Kathrin
opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Guido et Ginevra
opera by Jacques Fromental Halévy
La nave
opera in a prologue and three acts by Italo Montemezzi
Der Ring des Polykrates
opera by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Die Bernauerin
literary work
Il curioso indiscreto
opera by Pasquale Anfossi
Cagliostro in Wien
operetta by Johann Strauss II
The Student Prince
opera by Sigmund Romberg
The Knot Garden
opera by Michael Tippett
Anacréon
1754 opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Le Magnifique
opera by André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry
The Bride of Messina
opera by Zdeněk Fibich
Don Gregorio
opera by Gaetano Donizetti
Hélène
opera by Camille Saint-Saëns
Feramors
thumb|Feramor, costume design for Feramors (1872). Feramors is an opera in three (first version) or two (second version) acts by Anton Rubinstein to a libretto by Julius Rodenberg. The story is based on Lalla Rookh by the Irish poet Thomas Moore. The opera was composed in 1862.
1000 Airplanes on the Roof
melodrama in one act
Flis
opera by Stanisław Moniuszko
Doña Francisquita
zarzuela by Amadeo Vives
Karabakhname
Karabakhname () is an opera by Franghiz Ali-Zadeh. The libretto is by philologist-scientist Nargiz Pashayeva. The premiere of the work was put on the stage of the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater on December 15, 2007.
The Merchant Kalashnikov
opera by Anton Rubinstein
La morte d'Orfeo
opera by Stefano Landi
Le philtre
French opera by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
Ser Marcantonio
opera by Stefano Pavesi
Madame l'archiduc
opera by Jacques Offenbach
The Juniper Tree
opera by Philip Glass and Robert Moran
King and Charcoal Burner
opera by Antonín Dvořák
Der Prinz von Homburg
opera by Hans Werner Henze
Shah Ismayil
opera by Muslim Magomayev
Ein Traumspiel
opera by Aribert Reimann
Elena
opera by Francesco Cavalli
Fleur-de-Thé
thumb|alt=theatre poster, showing short, fat Chinese man in traditional dress, with tall, thin European woman walking beside him|Poster for original production, 1868 Fleur-de-Thé (, Teaflower) is a three-act opéra bouffe with music by Charles Lecocq and words by Alfred Duru and Henri Chivot. The story centres on a French bar-keeper, who is saved from a bigamous marriage to an aristocratic young local by the intervention of his real wife, with the aid of champagne and French sailors. It is set in China to appeal to the 1860s French fashion for Chinoiserie.
Paria
opera in three acts by Stanisław Moniuszko
L'olimpiade
opera by Baldassare Galuppi
Io
lyric opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Cristoforo Colombo
opera by Alberto Franchetti
Les noces d'Olivette
opera by Edmond Audran
Almast
thumb|In 2016 a stamp was issued on the centenary of the birth of the opera singer Tatevik Sazandaryan. She was shown in the role of Almast.
La campana sommersa
opera by Ottorino Respighi