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Composers and Their Operas
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A Chronology of Composers and Their Most Known Operas
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
 | The Coronation of Poppea
| Orfeo
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Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
| Dido and Aeneas
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George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
| Julius Caesar
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Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714-1787)
| Alceste
| Orfeo ed Euridice
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
| Abduction from the Seraglio
| La Clemenza di Tito
| Cosě Fan Tutte
| Don Giovanni
| Idomeneo
| The Magic Flute
| The Marriage of Figaro
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Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
| Medea
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Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
| Fidelio
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Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)
| Der Freischütz
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Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864)
| Les Huguenots
| Le Prophčte
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Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
| The Barber of Seville
| La Cenerentola
| L’Italiana in Algieri
| Semiramide
| Il Turco in Italia
| William Tell
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Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
| Anna Bolena
| The Daughter of the Regiment
| Don Pasquale
| The Elixir of Love
| La Favorite
| Lucia di Lammermoor
| Lucrezia Borgia
| Maria Stuarda
| Roberto d’Evereux
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Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)
| I Capuletti e i Montecchi
| Norma
| Il Pirata
| I Puritani
| La Sonnambula
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Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
| Benvenutto Cellini
| Les Troyens
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Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
| Mignon
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Friedrich von Flotow (1812-1883)
| Martha
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
| The Flying Dutchman
| Lohengrin
| Die Meistersinger
| Parsifal
| Tannhäuser
| Tristan und Isolde
| Der Ring Des Nibelungen --- Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung
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Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
| Aďda
| Attila
| Un Ballo in Maschera
| Il Corsaro
| Don Carlo
| Ernani
| Falstaff
| La Forza del Destino
| Giovanna d’Arco
| I Lombardi
| Luisa Miller
| Macbeth
| I Masnadieri
| Nabucco
| Otello
| Rigoletto
| Simon Boccanegra
| La Traviata
| Il Trovatore
| I Vespri Siciliani
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Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
| Faust
| Roméo and Juliette
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Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)
| Barbe-Bleue
| La Belle Hélčne
| La Grande Duchesse de Gérolstein
| Orpheus in the Underworld
| La Péricole
| The Tales of Hoffmann
| La Vie Parisienne
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Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)
| The Bartered Bride
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Johann Strauss, Jr. (1825-1899)
| Eine Nacht in Venedig
| Die Fledermaus
| The Gypsy Baron
| Wiener Blut
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Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)
| Prince Igor
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Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886)
| La Gioconda
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Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
| Samson and Delilah
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Leo Délibes (1836-1891)
| Lakmé
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William Gilbert (1836-1911) and Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
| The Gondoliers
| H.M.S. Pinafore
| Iolanthe
| The Mikado
| The Pirates of Penzance
| The Yeoman of the Guard
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Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
| Carmen
| The Pearl Fishers
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Modest Moussorgsky (1839-1881)
| Boris Godunov
| Khovanchina
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
| Eugene Onegin
| Iolanthe
| The Maid of Orleans
| Mazeppa
| Pique Dame
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Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
| Le Cid
| Don Quichotte
| Esclarmonde
| Manon
| Thaďs
| Werther
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Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)
| Mefistofele
| Nerone
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Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893)
| La Wally
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Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921)
| Hansel and Gretel
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Leoš Janácek (1854-1928)
| The Cunning Little Vixen
| Jenufa
| Kátya Kabanova
| The Makropulos Affair
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Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1858-1919)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
| La Bohčme
| The Girl of the Golden West
| Madama Butterfly
| Manon Lescaut
| La Rondine
| Tosca
| Il Tritico --- Gianni Schicchi; Suor Angelica; Il Tabarro
| Turandot
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Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956)
| Louise
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Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
| Pelléas et Mélisande
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Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
| L’Amico Fritz
| Cavalleria Rusticana
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Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
| Arabella
| Ariadne auf Naxos
| Capriccio
| Elektra
| Die Frau ohne Schatten
| Der Rosenkavalier
| Salome
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Francesco Cilča (1866-1950)
| Adriana Lecouvreur
| L’Arlesiana
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Umberto Giordano (1867-1948)
| Andrea Chénier
| Fedora
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Scott Joplin (1868-1917)
| Treemonisha
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Franz Lehár (1870-1948)
| Giuditta
| The Land of Smiles
| The Merry Widow
| Paganinni
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Emmerich Kálman (1882-1953)
| The Czardas Princess
| Grafin Mariza
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Zoltán Kodály (1882-1967)
| Háry János
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Alban Berg (1885-1935)
| Lulu
| Wozzeck
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Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)
| The Love of Three Oranges
| War and Peace
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George Gershwin (1898-1937)
| Porgy and Bess
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Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
| Dialogues of the Carmelites
| La Voix Humaine
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Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
| Vanessa
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Gian Carlo Menotti (1911- )
| Amahl and the Night Visitors
| The Consul
| The Medium
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Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
| Billy Budd
| Death in Venice
| Peter Grimes
| The Rape of Lucretia
| The Turn of the Screw
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