— Friedrich Nietzsche

A Basic List Of Famous And Important Operas You Should Get To KnowOpera is a vast subject, and one of infinite variety. I't been estimated that in the past 400 years, approximately 40,000 have been written, in countries all over Europe, America and elsewhere. So here's a basic list of some of the most famous and popular, starting with the 17th century up to the present era. You can attend live performances, get them on DVD or CD, or listen to radio broadcasts.Claudio Monteverdi : (1567 - 1643 ). L'Orfeo. (Orpheus and Euridice). L'Incoronazione di Poppea. (The Coronation of Poppea , based on the life of the emperor Nero.) Henry Purcell (1659 -1695 ) Dido and Anaeas.George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759 ) Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar). Alcina (pronounced al-chee-na).Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787 ). Orfeo & Euridice. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ( 1756 - 1791 ) Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), Don Giovanni, Cosi Fan Tutte (So do they all ), Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), Die Entfuhrung Aus dem Serail (The Abduction From The Seraglio ), Idomeneo.Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827 ). Fidelio. Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826 ) Der Freischutz.Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868 ) Il Barbiere di Sviglia (The Barber of Seville), La Cenerentola (Cinderella), L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Woman in Algiers ). Vincenzo Bellini (1801 - 1835 ) . Norma . I Puritani. La Sonnambula (The Sleepwalker ). Donizetti, Gaetano (1797 - 1848 ). Lucia di Lammermoor. Don Pasquale, L'Elisir d'Amore (The Elixir of Love ).Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901 ). Rigoletto. La Traviata . Il Trovatore. Un Ballo in Maschera. (A Masked Ball ), La Forza del Destino (The Power of Destiny ), Don Carlo, Macbeth, Otello , Falstaff. Arrigo Boito (1842 - 1918 ) Mefistofele. Amilcare Ponchiellei (1834 - 1887 ). La Gioconda. Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945 ) Cavalleria Rusticana (Rustic Chivalry ) Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 - 1918 ) Pagliacci. Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924 ), La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, Turandot.Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875 ) Carmen. Jules Massenet ( 1842 - 1912 ), Manon, Werther, Thais. Camille Saint -Saens (1835 - 1921 ) Samson & Dalilah. Leo Delibes . Lakme. Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893 ) Faust. Romeo & Juliette. Claude Debussy ( 1862 - 1918 ) Pelleas & Melisande.Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. (1840 - 1893 ) Eugene Onegin. Queen of Spades. Modest Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881 ). Boris Godunov. Khovanshchina. Bedrich Smetana (1824 - 1884) The Bartred Bride. Antonin Dvorak (1841 - 1904 ) Rusalka. Leos Janacek (1854 - 1928 ) Jenufa. Katya Kabanova. The Cunning Little Vixen. From the House of the Dead.Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883 ). Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman. ) Tannhauser. Lohengrin. The Ring : Das Rheingold. Die Walkure, Siegfried. Gotterdammerung (Twilight of the Gods). Tristan & Isole. Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (The Mastersingers of Nuremberg). Parsifa. Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921 ), Hansel & Gretel. Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949 . Salome Elelktra. Der Rosenkavalier. Ariadne auf Naxos. Die Frau Ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow ), Arabella, Capriccio.Alban Berg (1885 - 1935) Wozzeck. Lulu. Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951 ). Moses & Aron. George Gershwin (1898 - 1937 ) Porgy and Bess. Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976 ) Peter Grimes. Billy Budd.Sergei Prokofiev (1891 - 1953 ) The Love For Three Oranges. War And Peace. Dimitri Shostakovich (1906 - 1975 ), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District.There are an enormous number of complete recordings of these and countless other operas on CD, and a large and growing number on DVD. Check arkivmusic.com and classicstoday.com for recommended versions. Enjoy


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