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Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956) French composer famous for a single opera, Louise, set in a working class district of Paris. [51] Claude Debussy (1862–1918) Like Beethoven, Debussy finished only one opera, but his setting of Maeterlinck's Symbolist play Pelléas et Mélisande is a key work in 20th century music drama. [52]
This list provides a guide to the most prominent operas, as determined by their presence on a majority of selected compiled lists, which date from between 1984 and 2000. The operas included cover all important genres, and include all operas regularly performed today, from seventeenth-century works to late twentieth-century operas.
This is a list of individual opera composers and their major works. 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 ...
Lists of operas; List of operas by composer; List of operas by title; List of prominent operas; List of operettas; List of Argentine operas; List of Christmas operas; List of Mexican operas; List of North Korean operas; List of operas set in the Crusades; List of Orphean operas; List of radio operas; List of television operas
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. For a list of operas sorted by name of composer, see List of operas by composer.
List of operas by Jules Massenet; List of operas by Simon Mayr; List of operas by Étienne Méhul; List of operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer; List of operettas and operas by Carl Millöcker; List of operas by Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny; List of operas by Claudio Monteverdi; List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; List of operas by Josef Mysliveček
Category:Operas by composer; List of important operas – list of operas in the standard repertoire sorted by composer; List of major opera composers – selective list of the most notable opera composers; List of operas by composer – list of more than 500 opera composers and their work
The Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote 39 between 1806 and 1829.Adopting the opera buffa style of Domenico Cimarosa and Giovanni Paisiello, Rossini became the dominant composer of Italian opera during the first half of the 19th-century.