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Philip Glass' first opera conceived together with director Robert Wilson introduced minimalist composition and avantgarde performance to the world of opera and remains one of the best known operas of the twentieth century. [235] 1978 Le Grand Macabre (György Ligeti). First performed at Stockholm in 1978, Ligeti heavily revised the opera in ...
Opera Composer Aria 100 The Bohemian Girl: Balfe "I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls" 99 Parsifal: Wagner Prelude 98 The Magic Flute: Mozart "Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja" (Birdcatcher's Aria) 97 The Abduction from the Seraglio: Mozart "O, wie will ich triumphieren" (Osmin's Aria) 96 Casanova: J. Strauss II/Benatzky "O Madonna, auf uns sieh" (Nuns ...
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) The only true successor to Giuseppe Verdi in Italian opera, [50] Puccini's Tosca, La bohème and Madama Butterfly are among the most popular and well-recognised in the repertoire today. Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956) French composer famous for a single opera, Louise, set in a working class district of Paris. [51]
Eugene Onegin is a well-known example of lyric opera, to which Tchaikovsky added music of a dramatic nature. The story concerns a selfish hero who lives to regret his blasé rejection of a young woman's love and his careless incitement of a fatal duel with his best friend. The opera was first performed in Moscow in 1879. There are several ...
Mozart, in many ways Gluck's successor, combined a superb sense of drama, harmony, melody, and counterpoint to write a series of comedies, notably The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte (in collaboration with Lorenzo Da Ponte) which remain among the most-loved, popular and well-known operas today.
The most renowned figure of late 18th-century opera is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who began with opera seria but is most famous for his Italian comic operas, especially The Marriage of Figaro (Le nozze di Figaro), Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte, as well as Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio), and The Magic Flute ...
The following is a list of operas and operettas with entries in Wikipedia. The entries are sorted alphabetically by title, with the name of the composer and the year of the first performance also given.
The list includes composers' principal operas and those of historical importance in the development of the art form. It covers the full historical period from the birth of opera in the late 16th century to the present day, and includes all forms of opera from light music to more formal styles.