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This page lists famous Opera s arranged by Composer .


STANDARD OPERATIC REPERTORY


This list comprises the standard operatic repertory, arranged alphabetically by Composer followed by city and date of first staged performance. All the operas in this list are discussed in standard guidebooks, such as ''The Penguin Guide to Opera'', ed. Amanda Holden, 1994. Many splendid and under-appreciated masterpieces, aside from operatic curiosities, can be found in entries under the names of their individual Composer s.

In many opera houses this international repertory is supplemented by local standards. An tends to be most intense around the periphery.

''Details of plot, anecdotes and history of composition and production, etc. are found in the operas' individual entries (linked). These lists are not complete: complete lists of composers' operas are to be found in the composers' individual entries (linked), and in .''


















































HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT OPERAS


Most of the operas in the previous list are historically significant. This is a supplementary list of operas which are historically significant but not performed with any regularity. They are ordered chronologically by first performance.

  • Jacopo Peri

  • ---'' Euridice '' (Florence 1600); considered the first opera in European history



  • Francesca Caccini

  • ---''La liberazione di Ruggiero'' (Warsaw, 1628); first Italian opera performed outside of Italy, first opera by a woman


  • Stefano Landi

  • ---''Il Sant'Alessio'' (Rome, 1632); first opera on a historical rather than mythological subject







SEE ALSO

  • The Opera Corpus – A list of more than 1,250 operas by more than 360 individual opera composers, arranged by composer, giving a general idea of the present depth and consistency of coverage of opera on Wikipedia.

  • List Of Operas – A list of operas with entries in Wikipedia sorted alphabetically by title.



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