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100 Greatest Operas

Criteria: Operas are ranked for their innovation and influence, as well as their aesthetic importance, historical significance and lasting popularity.

Last Updated: 2017-07-19

  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. Le Coq D'or - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff
87. L'Enfant et les Sortiges - Maurice Ravel
88. Kat'a Kabanova - Leos Janacek
89. The Abduction from the Seraglio - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
90. Idomeneo - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
91. Dialogues des Carmelites - Frances Poulenc
92. Les Pecheurs des Perles - Georges Bizet
93. Einstein on the Beach - Philip Glass
94. Simon Boccanegra - Giuseppe Verdi
95. Gianni Schicchi - Giacomo Puccini
96. La Fille du Regiment - Gaetano Donizetti
97. William Tell - Gioacchino Rossini
98. L'Africaine - Giacomo Meyerbeer
99. Le Prophete - Giacomo Meyerbeer
100. Ernani - Giuseppe Verdi

101. Alcina - Georg Friedrich Handel
102. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District - Dmitri Shostakovich
103. Nabucco - Giuseppe Verdi
104. Prince Igor - Alexander Borodin
105. Xerxes - Georg Friedrich Handel
106. Rusalka - Antonín Dvořák
107. Die Frau ohne Schatten - Richard Strauss
108. War and Peace - Sergei Prokofiev
109. Ruslan and Ludmila - Mikhail Glinka
110. Amahl and the Night Visitors - Gian Carlo Menotti
111. Mefistofele - Arrigo Boito
112. The Girl of the Golden West - Giacomo Puccini
113. Il Matrimonio Segreto - Domenico Cimarosa
114. Die Tote Stadt - Erich Wolfgang Korngold
115. Nixon in China - John Adams
116. L'Italiana in Alegri - Gioacchino Rossini
117. Atys - Jean-Baptiste Lully
118. Four Saints in Three Acts - Virgil Thomson
119. Fra Diavolo - Daniel-Francois Auber
120. Medee - Luigi Cherubini
121. Beatrice et Benedict - Hector Berlioz
122. Palestrina - Hans Pfitzner
123. Adriana Lecouvreur - Francesco Cilea
124. Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor - Otto Nicolai
125. Martha - Friedrich von Flotow
Classical opera composer Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner

Classical opera composer Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi

Classical opera composer Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini

Classical opera composer Richard Strauss
Richard Strauss

Classical opera composer Gioacchino Rossini
Gioacchino Rossini

Classical opera composer Jacques Offenbach
Jacques Offenbach

  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
  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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