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100 Greatest Operas
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Operas are ranked for their innovation and influence, as well as
their aesthetic importance, historical significance and lasting popularity.
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Edited By: Brian
Last Updated: 06-28-11
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1. Der Ring des Nibelungen – Richard Wagner
2. Tristan Und Isolde – Richard Wagner
3. Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. Otello – Giuseppe Verdi
5. The Marriage of Figaro – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
6. Aida – Giuseppe Verdi
7. La Boheme – Giacomo Puccini
8. Madame Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini
9. Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss
10. Parsifal – Richard Wagner
11. Boris Godunov – Modest Mussorgsky
12. La Traviata – Giuseppe Verdi
13. Carmen – Georges Bizet
14. Die Meistersinger – Richard Wagner
15. The Magic Flute – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
16. Tosca – Giacomo Puccini
17. Falstaff – Giuseppe Verdi
18. Rigoletto – Giuseppe Verdi
19. The Barber Of Seville – Gioacchino Rossini
20. Il Trovatore – Giuseppe Verdi
21. Cavalleria Rusticana – Pietro Mascagni
22. Turandot – Giacomo Puccini
23. Faust – Charles Gounod
24. Lohengrin – Richard Wagner
25. Peter Grimes – Benjamin Britten
26. Norma – Vincenzo Bellini
27. Tannhauser – Richard Wagner
28. I Pagliacci – Rugierro Leoncavallo
29. Pelleas and Mellisande – Claude Debussy
30. Lucia Di Lammermoor – Gaetano Donizetti
31. Les Troyens – Hector Berlioz
33. Elektra – Richard Strauss
32. Cosi Fan Tutte – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
33. Porgy & Bess – George Gershwin
35. Fidelio – Ludwig Van Beethoven
36. Eugene Onegin – Peter Illitch Tchaikovsky
37. Wozzeck – Alban Berg
38. Incoronazione di Poppea – Claudio Monteverdi
49. Dido and Aneas – Henry Purcell
40. Orpheus and Eurydice – Christoph Willibald Gluck
41. Salome – Richard Strauss
42. Der Freischutz – Carl Maria von Weber
43. Don Carlos – Giuseppe Verdi
44. Orfeo – Claudio Monteverdi
45. The Cunning Little Vixen – Leos Janacek
46. Tales of Hoffman – Jacques Offenbach
47. Samson and Delilah – Camille Saint-Saens
48. The Flying Dutchman – Richard Wagner
49. Hansel and Gretel – Engelbert Humperdink
50. La Gioconda – Amiliare Ponchielli
51. The Rake's Progress – Igor Stravinsky
52. Manon – Jules Massenet
53. The Bartered Bride – Bedrich Smetana
54. The Huguenots – Giacomo Meyerbeer
55. La Forza Del Destino – Giuseppe Verdi
56. Manon Lescaut – Giacomo Puccini
57. Ariadne auf Naxos – Richard Strauss
58. Romeo and Juliet – Charles Gounod
59. L'Elisir D'Amore – Gaetano Donizetti
60. Lakme – Leo Delibes
61. Andre Chenier – Umberto Giordano
62. Werther – Jules Massenet
63. Don Pasquale – Gaetano Donizetti
64. Jenufa – Leos Janacek
65. Julius Caesar – Georg Friedrich Handel
66. Turn of the Screw – Benjamin Britten
67. La Sonnambula – Vincenzo Bellini
68. Duke Bluebeard's Castle – Bela Bartok
69. Iphigénie en Tauride – Christoph Willibald Gluck
70. Louise – Gustave Charpentier
71. La Cenerentola – Gioacchino Rossini
72. Billy Budd – Benjamin Britten
73. La Serva Padrona – Giovanni Pergolesi
74. Semiramide – Gioacchino Rossini
75. Doktor Faust – Ferruccio Busoni
76. The Threepenny Opera – Kurt Weill
77. Pique Dame – Peter Illitch Tchaikovsky
78. A Midsummer Night's Dream – Benjamin Britten
79. Khovanshina – Modest Mussorgsky
80. Alceste – Christoph Willibald Gluck
81. I Puritani – Vincenzo Bellini
82. Castor et Pollux – Jean-Philippe Rameau
83. The Masked Ball – Giuseppe Verdi
84. Moses und Aron – Arnold Schoenberg
85. McBeth – Giuseppe Verdi
86. William Tell – Gioacchino Rossini
87. Les Pecheurs des Perles – Georges Bizet
88. Mefistofele – Arrigo Boito
89. L'Africaine – Giacomo Meyerbeer
90. La Fille du Regiment – Gaetano Donizetti
91. Le Prophete – Giacomo Meyerbeer
92. Le Coq D'or – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff
93. The Girl of the Golden West – Giacomo Puccini
94. Die Tote Stadt – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
95. Ernani – Giuseppe Verdi
96. The Abduction from the Seraglio – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
97. Dialogues des Carmelites – Frances Poulenc
98. Einstein on the Beach – Philip Glass
99. Idomeneo – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
100. Kat'a Kabanova – Leos Janacek
101. Il Matrimonio Segreto – Domenico Cimarosa
102. Amahl and the Night Visitors – Gian Carlo Menotti
103. Gianni Schicchi – Giacomo Puccini
104. Alcina – Georg Friedrich Handel
105. Palestrina – Hans Pfitzner
106. Fra Diavolo – Daniel-Francois Auber
107. L'Enfant et les Sortiges – Maurice Ravel
108. Die Frau ohne Schatten – Richard Strauss
109. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District – Dmitri Shostakovich
110. Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor – Otto Nicolai
111. Simon Boccanegra – Giuseppe Verdi
112. Prince Igor – Alexander Borodin
113. War and Peace – Sergei Prokofiev
114. Beatrice et Benedict – Hector Berlioz
115. Nabucco – Giuseppe Verdi
116. Atys – Jean-Baptiste Lully
117. Four Saints in Three Acts – Virgil Thomson
118. Medee – Luigi Cherubini
119. Martha – Friedrich von Flotow
120. Adriana Lecouvreur – Francesco Cilea
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1. Richard Wagner
2. Giuseppe Verdi
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. Giacomo Puccini
5. Richard Strauss
6. Gioacchino Rossini
7. Gaetano Donizetti
8. Benjamin Britten
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9. Vincenzo Bellini
10. Georges Bizet
11. Charles Gounod
12. Claudio Monteverdi
13. Christoph Willibald Gluck
14. Leos Janacek
15. Modest Mussorgsky
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Disclaimer: There is nothing 'Official' about these lists. They are compiled by the 'editor' using the
stated criteria, and revised considering the competent suggestions of visitors to this website only.
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