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An English opera of all times, famous for the patriotic song "Rule Britannia". 1744 Semele (Handel). Originally performed as an oratorio, Semele's dramatic qualities have often led to the work being performed on the opera stage in modern times. [28] 1745 Platée (Rameau). Rameau's most famous comic opera.
His opera Artaxerxes (1762) was the first attempt to set a full-blown opera seria in English and was a huge success, holding the stage until the 1830s. His modernized ballad opera, Love in a Village (1762), was equally novel and began a vogue for pastiche opera that lasted well into the 19th century.
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.
Agnes Sorel (opera) Alban (opera) Albert Herring; Albion and Albanius; Alfred (Arne opera) Alice in Wonderland (opera) Alice's Adventures Under Ground (opera) Amahl and the Night Visitors; The Amber Witch (opera) Amelia (opera) Amelia Goes to the Ball; An American Soldier (opera) An American Tragedy (opera) Amilie, or the Love Test; Angel's ...
Opera originated in Italy at the end of the 16th century (with Jacopo Peri's mostly lost Dafne, produced in Florence in 1598) especially from works by Claudio Monteverdi, notably L'Orfeo, and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Heinrich Schütz in Germany, Jean-Baptiste Lully in France, and Henry Purcell in England all helped to establish their national traditions in the 17th century.
George Frideric Handel's operas comprise 42 musical dramas that were written between 1705 and 1741 in various genres.Though his large scale English language works written for the theatre are technically oratorios and not operas, several of them, such as Semele (1744), have become an important part of the opera repertoire.
"The Standard Repertoire of Grand Opera 1607–1969", a list included in Norman Davies's Europe: a History (OUP, 1996; paperback edition Pimlico, 1997) ISBN 0-7126-6633-8. Composers mentioned in the chronology by Mary Ann Smart in The Oxford Illustrated History of Opera (OUP, 1994) ISBN 0-19-816282-0.
Glyndebourne Festival Opera: history and repertoire, 1952–63; List of Innsbruck Festival of Early Music productions; List of performances of French grand operas at the Paris Opéra; Salzburg Festival: history and repertoire, 1922–1926; Salzburg Festival: history and repertoire, 1935–1937; List of operas performed at the Santa Fe Opera