Famous Operas A-Team

The Flying Dutchman by Wagner

a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. basing the story on Heinrich Heine's satire "The Memoirs of Mister von Schnabelewopski". In Heine's tale, the narrator watches a performance of a fictitious stage play on the theme of the sea captain cursed to sail forever for blasphemy.

Otello by Verdi

an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, based on Shakespeare's play Othello. It was Verdi's penultimate opera

Salome by Strauss

an opera in one act by Richard Strauss, based on Hedwig Lachmann's German translation of the French play of the same title by Oscar Wilde. The opera is famous for its "Dance of the Seven Veils".

La Traviata by Verdi

an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. "The Fallen Woman" is set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. It is based on La Dame aux Camélias (1852), a play adapted from the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

A Masked Ball by Verdi

an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. Based on the Scribe libretto and begun as Gustavo III set in Sweden, it became Una vendetta in dominò set in Germany, and finally Un ballo, set not in Sweden but in Boston, Massachusetts during the colonial era.

Rigoletto by Verdi

an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. Its tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement.

Fedora by Giordano

an opera in three acts by Umberto Giordano. Enrico Caruso played the tenor role in the opening production. The princess seeks to avenge the death of her fiance', unaware that her betrothed betrayed her with the killer's wife.

Falstaff by Verdi

an opera in three acts by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi. adapted from Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and scenes from Henry IV, parts 1 and 2.

The Rhinegold by Wagner

"Das Rheingold"- the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, or in English, 'The Ring of the Nibelung. I

The Valkyrie by Wagner

"Die Valkyrie" music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto by the composer. It is the second of the four works that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen. based on the Norse mythology told in the Volsunga Saga and the Poetic Edda. The best-known excerpt is the "Ride of the Valkyries".

The Twilight of the Gods by Wagner

"Götterdämmerung", the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung. The three Norns, daughters of Erda, gather beside Brünnhilde's rock, weaving the rope of Destiny. They sing of the past and the present, and of the future when Wotan will set fire to Valhalla to signal the end of the gods.

II Trovatore (The Troubador) by Verdi

(Italian for "The Troubadour") An opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto largely written by Salvadore Cammarano, based on the play El trovador (1836)

Faust by Goethe

A grand opera in five acts by Charles Gounod,

Madame Butterfly by Puccini

An opera by Giacomo Puccini. The title character, a Japanese woman, is betrothed to an American naval officer stationed in Japan. He leaves for the United States, promising to return, but comes back 3 years later married to an American woman. Butterfly, disgraced, stabs herself; the officer begs her forgiveness, and she dies in his arms.

The Barber of Seville by Rossini

An opera by Gioacchino Rossini. The title character is Figaro, a master schemer. By his trickery, he helps his former master, nobleman, win the hand of a beautiful woman.

Aida by Verdi

An opera by Giuseppe Verdi. Title character is an Ethiopian princess who loves an Egyptian warrior, Radames. He accidentally reveals military secrets to her and is condemned to death by live burial in a tomb. Aida flees, but rejoins Radames to die with him.

The Marriage of Figaro by Mozart

An opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in which the servant Figaro outwits his noble master, who is trying to seduce Figaro's fiancée.

Don Giovanni by Mozart

An opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, recounting the dissolute life of Don Juan (Don Giovanni is the Italian form of Don Juan). At the end of the opera, a statue of a man Don Giovanni has killed comes to life and drags that unscrupulous seducer into the burning pits of hell.

The Magic Flute by Mozart

An opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A Prince receives The Magic Flute from the Queen of the Night and sets out to rescue the queen's daughter from an Egyptian priest. He succeeds, and the two are married. .

Lohengrin by Wagner

An opera composed and written by Richard Wagner. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance. Bridal Chorus, or "Here Comes the Bride", often played as a processional at weddings in the West.

Carmen by Bizet

An opera in four acts by French composer Georges Bizet. Set in Seville around the year 1830, the opera deals with the love and jealousy of Don José, who is lured away from his duty as a soldier and his beloved Micaëla by the gypsy factory-girl Carmen, whom he allows to escape from custody.

La Boheme by Puccini

An opera in four acts composed by Giacomo Puccini, based on Henri Murger's novel, a collection of vignettes portraying young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s. There are 4 Bohemians, the poet Rodolfo, the painter Marcello, the musician Schaunard, and the philosopher Colline. They are poor, but happy.

Turandot by Puccini

An opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini completed by Franco Alfano. The opera's story is set in China and involves Prince Calaf, who falls in love with the cold Princess Turandot. To obtain permission to marry her, a suitor has to solve three riddles; any wrong answer results in death. Calaf passes the test, but Turandot still refuses to marry him. He offers her a way out: if she is able to learn his name before dawn the next day, then at daybreak he will die.

Tosca by Puccini

An opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy.

Tristan and Isolde by Wagner

An opera, or music drama, in three acts by Richard Wagner. The story it is based on is considered a quintessential romance of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.

Cinderella by Rossini

An operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. based on a fairy tale by Charles Perrault.

Fidelio by Beethoven

Beethoven's only Opera Tells how Leonore, disguised as a prison guard named "Fidelio", rescues her husband Florestan from death in a political prison.

Siegfried by Wagner

The third of the four music dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. Some elements of the story are derived from legends of Sigurd, hero of Norse mythology