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La bohème

La Bohème is an Italian opera by Giacomo Puccini premiered in 1896. It’s a cornerstone of Verismo, a movement emphasizin...

Lyric Italian Verismo Puccini

9.5 Brilliant

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Tosca

Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca is a dramatic Italian opera from 1900. It tells the story of a Roman diva caught between her pat...

Italian Dramatic Verismo Puccini

9.2 Excellent

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Madama Butterfly

Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly is an Italian opera from 1904 representing the verismo style. The work tells the trag...

Italian Verismo Tragic Puccini

9.2 Excellent

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Pelléas et Mélisande

Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande premiered in 1902 and remains a landmark opera. The work utilizes Impressionistic...

Modern French Debussy 1902

9.2 Excellent

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Don Carlos

Don Carlos is an 1867 French grand opera by Giuseppe Verdi, exploring religious and political conflicts in 16th-century...

Romantic French Verdi Grand Opera

8.8 Great

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Les Troyens

Les Troyens is a grand opera by Hector Berlioz, premiered posthumously in 1890, notable for its epic scale and adaptatio...

Romantic French Epic Berlioz

8.8 Great

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Turandot

Turandot is an opera by Giacomo Puccini, left unfinished at his death in 1924, famous for the aria "Nessun dorma" and it...

Italian Dramatic Verismo 1926

8.8 Great

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Cavalleria rusticana

Cavalleria rusticana is an opera by Pietro Mascagni, premiered in 1890, celebrated as a defining masterpiece of the Ital...

Italian Dramatic Verismo Mascagni

8.8 Great

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Les contes d'Hoffmann

Les contes d'Hoffmann is an opera by Jacques Offenbach, premiered posthumously in 1881, notable for its blend of fantasy...

Romantic French Fantastic Offenbach

8.7 Great

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Gianni Schicchi

Gianni Schicchi is a comic opera by Giacomo Puccini, premiered in 1918, famous for the popular aria "O mio babbino caro"...

Italian Comedy Verismo Puccini

8.7 Great

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Pagliacci

Pagliacci is an opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo, premiered in 1892, notable for its verismo style and the famous prologue s...

Italian Dramatic Verismo 1892

8.7 Great

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Iphigénie en Tauride

Christoph Willibald Gluck's 1779 opera, based on Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris, is widely regarded as his masterpiece a...

Classical French Mythological Gluck

8.5 Great

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Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut is an opera by Giacomo Puccini, premiered in 1893, notable for establishing his international reputation a...

Italian Verismo Tragic Puccini

8.5 Great

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Guillaume Tell

Gioachino Rossini's 1829 grand opera, based on Schiller's play about Swiss folk hero William Tell, was his final opera a...

French Grand Opera Bel Canto Rossini

8.3 Great

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Werther

Werther is an opera by Jules Massenet, premiered in 1892, celebrated for its deeply emotional adaptation of Goethe's cla...

Lyric Romantic French Massenet

8.3 Great

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Samson et Dalila

Samson et Dalila is an opera by Camille Saint-Saëns, premiered in 1877, noted for its sweeping biblical narrative and th...

Romantic French Biblical Saint Saens

8.3 Great

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Andrea Chénier

Andrea Chénier is an opera by Umberto Giordano, premiered in 1896, noted for its historical setting during the French Re...

Italian Historical Verismo 1896

8.3 Great

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Castor et Pollux

Jean-Philippe Rameau's 1737 tragédie en musique, depicting the twin brothers Castor and Pollux of Greek mythology, is co...

Baroque French Mythological Rameau

8.2 Great

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L'enfant et les sortilèges

L'enfant et les sortilèges is a 1925 opera by Maurice Ravel, celebrated for its imaginative orchestration and charming f...

Fantasy Modern French Ravel

8.2 Great

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Médée

Luigi Cherubini's 1797 French opera is a prominent classical treatment of the Greek myth of Medea, famously championed b...

Classical French Tragic Cherubini

8.2 Great