swap_horiz Verdi - Aida Alternatives

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Mozart - Don Giovanni, K. 527

Mozart's 1787 opera in two acts with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, based on the Don Juan legend, premiered in Prague to...

Classical Opera Stage Mozart

9.4 Excellent

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Wagner - Tristan und Isolde

Richard Wagner composed this groundbreaking German opera between 1857 and 1859, famous for its dissonant Tristan chord t...

Romantic Opera Stage Music Drama

9.4 Excellent

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Verdi - Otello

Giuseppe Verdi composed this tragic opera in 1887, creating a highly acclaimed Italian adaptation of William Shakespeare...

Romantic Opera Stage Shakespeare

9.4 Excellent

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Mozart - The Marriage of Figaro, K. 492

Mozart's 1786 comic opera buffa in four acts with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, adapted from Beaumarchais's stage play,...

Classical Opera Stage Mozart

9.3 Excellent

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Verdi - Requiem

Giuseppe Verdi composed this large-scale Catholic funeral mass in 1874, honoring the Italian novelist Alessandro Manzoni...

Romantic Orchestral Sacred Choral

9.3 Excellent

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Puccini - La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini premiered this tragic Italian opera in 1896, depicting the bohemian lives of young artists in 1840s Pari...

Opera Stage Tragic Late Romantic

9.3 Excellent

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Verdi - La Traviata

Giuseppe Verdi composed this beloved Italian opera in 1853, adapting the Alexandre Dumas fils novel The Lady of the Came...

Romantic Opera Stage Tragic

9.2 Excellent

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Verdi - Rigoletto

Giuseppe Verdi premiered this dramatic Italian opera in 1851, instantly becoming famous for the recognizable tenor aria...

Romantic Opera Stage Tragic

9.1 Excellent

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Monteverdi - L'Orfeo, SV 318

Claudio Monteverdi's 1607 Italian opera is a foundational work of the genre, masterfully combining Renaissance madrigal...

Opera Stage Renaissance Monteverdi

9.1 Excellent

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Debussy - Pelléas et Mélisande

Pelléas et Mélisande is a landmark five-act opera by Claude Debussy, premiered in 1902, celebrated for its Impressionist...

Opera Stage 20TH Century Impressionist

9.0 Excellent

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Britten - Peter Grimes, Op. 33

Benjamin Britten's 1945 opera "Peter Grimes" portrays an alienated fisherman and played a pivotal role in the 20th-centu...

Opera Stage 20TH Century British

9.0 Excellent

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Puccini - Tosca

Giacomo Puccini composed this dark political thriller opera in 1900, set in Rome and famous for its intense drama and th...

Opera Stage Dramatic Late Romantic

8.9 Great

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Puccini - Madama Butterfly

Madama Butterfly is a renowned opera by Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, which premiered in 1904 and tells the tragic s...

Opera Stage Tragic Late Romantic

8.9 Great

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Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626

Henry Purcell's 1689 English Baroque opera is widely celebrated for its tragic depth, particularly the famous descending...

Baroque Opera Stage British

8.9 Great

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Monteverdi - L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308

Composed by Claudio Monteverdi in 1643, this Venetian opera is notable for being one of the earliest to explore historic...

Baroque Opera Stage Monteverdi

8.9 Great

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Mozart - Così fan tutte, K. 588

Mozart's 1790 opera buffa in two acts with libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, exploring themes of fidelity through a wager-ba...

Classical Opera Stage Mozart

8.8 Great

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Puccini - Turandot

Turandot is an Italian opera by Giacomo Puccini, left unfinished at his death in 1924 and renowned for its demanding ten...

Opera Stage Unfinished Late Romantic

8.8 Great

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Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker, Op. 71

Tchaikovsky's 1892 ballet, based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's story, premiering at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, a pe...

Romantic Ballet Stage Orchestral

8.7 Great

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Handel - Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17

George Frideric Handel wrote this popular Italian-language Baroque opera in 1724, based on the historical relationship o...

Baroque Opera Stage Handel

8.7 Great

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Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice

Christoph Willibald Gluck's 1762 Italian opera is an influential reform work, aiming to integrate drama, music, and danc...

Classical Opera Stage Gluck

8.7 Great