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Le nozze di Figaro

Mozart’s *Le nozze di Figaro* is a comedic Italian opera first performed in 1786. Based on Beaumarchais' play, it tells...

Classical Italian Comedy Mozart

9.5 Brilliant

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Don Giovanni

Mozart’s *Don Giovanni* is a dramatic opera composed in 1787. It tells the story of a charismatic nobleman's seduction a...

Classical Italian Mozart 1787

9.5 Brilliant

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Tristan und Isolde

Richard Wagner’s *Tristan und Isolde* is a profoundly influential German opera composed in 1865. The work explores theme...

German Romantic Tragic Wagner

9.5 Brilliant

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Boris Godunov

Boris Godunov is an 1874 Russian opera by Modest Mussorgsky, widely renowned for its brilliant psychological portrayal o...

Romantic Russian Historical Mussorgsky

9.2 Excellent

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Peter Grimes

Benjamin Britten's 1945 English opera tells the tragic story of a fisherman ostracized by his harsh coastal village comm...

Modern Dramatic English Britten

9.0 Excellent

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Khovanshchina

Khovanshchina is a historical opera by Modest Mussorgsky, notable for its powerful folk-infused score and vivid depictio...

Romantic Russian Historical Mussorgsky

8.5 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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Doctor Atomic

John Adams's 2005 opera focuses on the intense moral panic and scientific events leading up to the first atomic bomb tes...

American Contemporary Historical 2005

8.0 Great

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Maria Stuarda

Maria Stuarda is an 1835 tragic opera by Gaetano Donizetti, dramatizing the intense political and personal rivalry betwe...

Italian Historical Bel Canto Donizetti

7.8 Good

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Albert Herring

Benjamin Britten's 1947 comic opera is set in an English village and follows a young man's rebellion against his overbea...

Modern Comedy English 1947

7.8 Good

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Anna Bolena

Anna Bolena is an 1830 tragic opera by Gaetano Donizetti, exploring the downfall and execution of the ill-fated English...

Italian Historical Bel Canto Donizetti

7.7 Good

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Mathis der Maler

Mathis der Maler is a 1938 opera by Paul Hindemith, notable for its commentary on the responsibility of an artist in a p...

German Modern Historical Hindemith

7.5 Good

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A Life for the Tsar

A Life for the Tsar is an 1836 patriotic opera by Mikhail Glinka, historically significant as a foundational work in the...

Romantic Russian Historical 1836

7.5 Good

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Benvenuto Cellini

Hector Berlioz's first opera (1838), depicting the life of Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, notable for its turbu...

Romantic French Historical Berlioz

7.5 Good

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Roberto Devereux

Roberto Devereux is an 1837 tragic opera by Gaetano Donizetti, depicting the final days of the doomed English Earl of Es...

Italian Historical Bel Canto Donizetti

7.3 Good

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The Ballad of Baby Doe

Douglas Moore's 1956 American opera is based on the true story of Elizabeth Doe and her scandalous marriage to a wealthy...

Modern American Historical 1956

7.3 Good

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The Midsummer Marriage

Michael Tippett's first opera (1955), a lyrical work drawing on Jungian symbolism and myth, premiered at Covent Garden i...

Modern Symbolic English 1955

7.3 Good

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Attila

Attila is an 1846 opera by Giuseppe Verdi, dramatizing the conflict between the infamous Hun and the dying Western Roman...

Romantic Italian Historical Verdi

7.2 Good

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I due Foscari

I due Foscari is an 1844 opera by Giuseppe Verdi, based on Lord Byron's historical play about the political struggles in...

Romantic Italian Historical Verdi

7.0 Good

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Anna Nicole

Mark-Anthony Turnage composed this 2011 British opera, a tragic satire chronicling the highly turbulent life and death o...

Contemporary English Satirical 2011

6.3 Fair