List of operas by composer
This is a list of individual opera composers and their major works.
The list includes composers' principal operas and those of historical importance in the development of the art form. It covers the full historical period from the birth of opera in the late 16th century to the present day, and includes all forms of opera from light music to more formal styles.
List of operas by composer's last name[]
A[]
- Michel van der Aa (1970– ): , One
- Ludwig Abeille (1761–1838): Amor und Psyche, Peter und Ännchen
- Paul Abraham (1892–1960): Ball im Savoy, Die Blume von Hawaii, Viki, Viktoria und ihr Husar
- Adolphe Adam (1803–1856): Le chalet, Le postillon de Lonjumeau, La poupée de Nuremberg, Si j'étais roi, Le toréador
- Mark Adamo (1962– ): Little Women, Lysistrata
- John Adams (1947– ): The Death of Klinghoffer, Doctor Atomic, A Flowering Tree, El Niño, I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, Nixon in China
- Thomas Adès (1971– ): Powder Her Face, The Tempest, The Exterminating Angel
- Samuel Adler (1928– ): The Disappointment
- Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909): Henry Clifford, Pepita Jiménez, Merlin
- Eugen d'Albert (1864–1932): , Tiefland, Die toten Augen
- Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1750): Artamene, Didone abbandonata, , La Statira, Zenobia
- Franco Alfano (1875–1954): Cyrano de Bergerac, Risurrezione, Sakùntala
- Francisco António de Almeida (c.1702–?1755): La Spinalba
- William Alwyn (1905–1985): Miss Julie
- Garland Anderson (1933–2001): Soyazhe
- Johann André (1741–1799): Erwin und Elmire, Der Töpfer
- Mark Andre (1964– ):
- Hendrik Andriessen (1892–1981): ,
- Louis Andriessen (1939– ): Rosa – A Horse Drama, Writing to Vermeer, La Commedia
- Pasquale Anfossi (1727–1797): L'avaro, Il curioso indiscreto, La vera costanza
- Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1739–1807): Erwin und Elmire
- George Antheil (1900–1959): Transatlantic, Helen Retires, Volpone
- Francesco Araja (1709–c. 1770): Tsefal i Prokris
- Anton Arensky (1861–1906): Dream on the Volga
- Dominick Argento (1927– ): Casanova's Homecoming, Christopher Sly, Postcard from Morocco
- Thomas Arne (1710–1778): Alfred, Artaxerxes, Comus, The Cooper, Eliza, The Fairy Prince, Love in a Village, Rosamond, Thomas and Sally
- Samuel Arnold (1740–1802): The Baron Kinkvervankotsdorsprakingatchdern, Inkle and Yarico
- Leo Ascher (1880–1942): Hoheit tanzt Walzer
- Daniel Auber (1782–1871): Le cheval de bronze, Les diamants de la couronne, Le domino noir, Fra Diavolo, Gustave III, Haydée, Manon Lescaut, La muette de Portici, La part du diable
- Edmond Audran (1842–1901): La mascotte, Les noces d'Olivette
- Svitlana Azarova (1976– ): Momo og tidstyvene
B[]
- Grażyna Bacewicz (1909–1969):
- Johann Christian Bach (1735–1782): Temistocle, Amadis de Gaule
- Michael William Balfe (1808–1870): The Bohemian Girl, The Maid of Artois, The Rose of Castille, L'étoile de Seville,
- Granville Bantock (1868–1946):
- Samuel Barber (1910–1981): Antony and Cleopatra, A Hand of Bridge, Vanessa
- Francisco A. Barbieri (1823–1894): Jugar con fuego, Los diamantes de la corona, El barberillo de Lavapiés
- John Barnett (1802–1890): Mountain Sylph, Fair Rosamond, Farinelli
- Gerald Barry (1952– ): The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, The Importance of Being Earnest
- Jiří Bárta (1935–2012): (Chitra)
- Béla Bartók (1881–1945): Bluebeard's Castle
- Jan Zdeněk Bartoš (1908–1981): (The Cursed Mansion)
- Franco Battiato (1945–2021): , , ,
- Amy Beach (1867–1944): Cabildo
- Jack Beeson (1921–2010): Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Hello Out There, Lizzie Borden,
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Fidelio
- Ján Levoslav Bella (1843–1936): Wieland der Schmied
- Vincenzo Bellini (1801–1835): Adelson e Salvini, Beatrice di Tenda, Bianca e Fernando (Bianca e Gernando), I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Norma, Il pirata, I puritani, La sonnambula, La straniera, Zaira
- Ralph Benatzky (1884–1957): Bezauberndes Fräulein, Meine Schwester und ich, The White Horse Inn (Im weißen Rößl)
- Georg Benda (1722–1795): Ariadne auf Naxos, Medea, Pygmalion, Romeo und Julie,
- Julius Benedict (1804–1885): The Lily of Killarney
- Arthur Benjamin (1893–1960): The Devil Take Her
- George Benjamin (composer) (1960– ): Written on Skin, Lessons in Love and Violence
- Tim Benjamin (1975– ): The Corley Conspiracy
- Richard Rodney Bennett (1936–2012): The Mines of Sulphur
- Maksym Berezovsky (1745–1777): Demofonte
- Alban Berg (1885–1935): Lulu, Wozzeck
- Erik Bergman (1911–2006): The Singing Tree
- Luciano Berio (1925–2003): , , Un re in ascolto, , Cronaca del luogo
- Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989): Nelson, Ruth
- Michael Berkeley (1948– ): , , Jane Eyre
- Hector Berlioz (1803–1869): Béatrice et Bénédict, Benvenuto Cellini, La damnation de Faust, Les francs-juges, Les Troyens
- Leonard Bernstein (1918–1990): Candide, A Quiet Place, Trouble in Tahiti, West Side Story
- Louise Bertin (1805–1877): La Esmeralda
- Franz Berwald (1796–1868): The Queen of Golconda, Estrella de Soria, I enter a monastery, The Modiste
- Oscar Bianchi (1975– ): Thanks to My Eyes
- Francesco Bianchi (1752–1810): Alonso e Cora, Arbace, Calto, Castore e Polluce, La morte di Cesare, Seleuco, re di Siria, La villanella rapita, Zemira
- Harrison Birtwistle (1934– ): Gawain, The Io Passion, The Last Supper, The Mask of Orpheus, The Minotaur, The Second Mrs Kong, Punch and Judy, Yan Tan Tethera
- Georges Bizet (1838–1875): Carmen, Djamileh, Le docteur Miracle, Don Procopio, Ivan IV, La jolie fille de Perth, La maison du docteur, Les pêcheurs de perles
- Terence Blanchard (1962– ): Champion, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
- Arthur Bliss (1891–1975): The Olympians,
- Marc Blitzstein (1905–1964): Regina
- Ernest Bloch (1880–1959): Macbeth
- Vilém Blodek (1834–1874): (V studni)
- Karl-Birger Blomdahl (1916–1968): Aniara
- John Blow (1649–1708): Venus and Adonis
- Luigi Boccherini (1743–1805): Clementina
- Philippe Boesmans (1936– ): Julie, , Reigen, Wintermärchen
- Craig Bohmler (1956– ):
- François-Adrien Boieldieu (1775–1834): Le calife de Bagdad, La dame blanche
- Joseph Bodin de Boismortier (1689–1755): Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse
- Arrigo Boito (1842–1918): Mefistofele, Nerone
- William Bolcom (1938– ): , A Wedding, McTeague
- Joseph Bologne (1745–1799):
- Antonio Maria Bononcini (1677–1726): Griselda
- Giovanni Bononcini (1670–1747): Muzio Scevola, Xerse, Griselda, Almahide, Camilla
- Alexander Borodin (1833–1887): Prince Igor (Knyaz Igor)
- Rutland Boughton (1878–1960): The Immortal Hour
- Antonio Braga (1929– ): 1492 epopea lirica d'America, San Domenico di Guzman
- Walter Braunfels (1882–1954): Prinzessin Brambilla, , Die Vögel
- Eef van Breen (1978– ): ’u’
- Nicolae Bretan (1887–1968): Arald, Golem, Horia,
- Tomás Bretón (1850–1923): La verbena de la Paloma, La Dolores
- Benjamin Britten (1913–1976): Albert Herring, Billy Budd, The Burning Fiery Furnace, Curlew River, Death in Venice, Gloriana, The Little Sweep, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Noye's Fludde, Owen Wingrave, Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Prodigal Son, The Rape of Lucretia, The Turn of the Screw
- Rudolf Brucci (1917–2002): Gilgamesh
- Max Bruch (1838–1920): Die Loreley
- Arthur Bruhns (1874–1928): Ib and Little Christina
- Ignaz Brüll (1846–1907): Das goldene Kreuz
- Alfred Bruneau (1857–1934): , L'attaque du moulin, , Messidor, ,
- Joanna Bruzdowicz (1943– ): , , The Gates of Paradise
- Mark Bucci (1924–2002): Tale for a Deaf Ear
- August Bungert (1845–1915):
- Anthony Burgess (1917–1993): Blooms of Dublin
- Paul Burkhard (1911–1977): ,
- Keith Burstein (1957– ): Manifest Destiny
- Alan Bush (1900–1995): , , Joe Hill
- Ferruccio Busoni (1866–1924): Arlecchino, Die Brautwahl, Doktor Faust, Turandot
- Sylvano Bussotti (1931–2021): La Passion selon Sade,
C[]
- Francesca Caccini (1587–1630/1640): La liberazione di Ruggiero
- Giulio Caccini (1551–1618): Euridice, Il rapimento di Cefalo
- John Cage (1912–1992): Europeras
- Robert Cambert (c.1627–1677): Pomone
- André Campra (1660–1744): Alcine, Les âges, Le carnaval de Venise, L'Europe galante, Les fêtes vénitiennes, Hésione, Idoménée, Iphigénie en Tauride, Tancrède
- Michele Carafa (1787–1872): La belle au bois dormant
- David Carlson (1952– ): , Anna Karenina
- Frank Osmond Carr (1858–1916): His Excellency
- Pavlos Carrer (1829–1896): , Isabella d'Aspeno, , , , , , ,
- Elliott Carter (1908–2012): What Next?
- Alfredo Catalani (1854–1893): Loreley, La Wally
- Daniel Catán (1949–2011): Rappaccini's Daughter, Florencia en el Amazonas, Salsipuedes
- Eduard Caudella (1841–1924): ,
- Emilio de' Cavalieri (c. 1550–1602): Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo
- Francesco Cavalli (1602–1676): Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne, Artemisia, Calisto, Ciro, Coriolano, Didone, Doriclea, Egisto, Elena, Eliogabalo, Ercole amante, Erismena, Eritrea, Giasone, Hipermestra, Orimonte, Orione, Oristeo, Ormindo, Mutio Scevola, Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo, Pompeo Magno, Rosinda, Scipione affricano, Statira principessa di Persia, Veremonda, La virtù dei strali d'Amore, Xerse
- Ludvík Čelanský (1870–1931): Kamilla
- Alfred Cellier (1844–1891): After All!, The Carp, Dora's Dream, Doris, Dorothy, In the Sulks, The Mountebanks, The Spectre Knight, The Sultan of Mocha, Topsyturveydom
- François Cellier (1849–1914): Captain Billy
- Friedrich Cerha (1926– ): , ,
- Antonio Cesti (1623–1669): Orontea, Il pomo d'oro
- Emmanuel Chabrier (1841–1894): Briséïs, Une éducation manquée, L'étoile, Fisch-Ton-Kan, Gwendoline, Le roi malgré lui
- Ruperto Chapí (1851–1909): Roger de Flor, , La serenata, Las bravías, La revoltosa, El puñao de rosas, Margarita la tornera
- Gustave Charpentier (1860–1956): Julien, Louise
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704): Actéon, Les arts florissants, David et Jonathas, La descente d'Orphée aux enfers, Médée, Les plaisirs de Versailles
- Francis Chassaigne (1847–1922): Le droit d'aînesse
- Ernest Chausson (1855–1899): Le roi Arthus
- Carlos Chávez (1899–1978): The Visitors
- Deborah Cheetham (fl. 2011): Pecan Summer
- Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842): Les Abencérages, Anacréon, Le crescendo, Les deux journées, Eliza, Faniska, L'hôtellerie portugaise, Lodoïska, Médée, Pimmalione
- Unsuk Chin (1961– ): Alice in Wonderland
- Michael Ching (1958– ): , ,
- Francesco Cilea (1866–1950): Adriana Lecouvreur, L'arlesiana, Gloria
- Domenico Cimarosa (1749–1801): L'Armida immaginaria, Le astuzie femminili, La Cleopatra, Le donne rivali, La finta parigina, Giannina e Bernardone, L'impresario in angustie, Il maestro di cappella, Il matrimonio segreto, Gli Orazi e i Curiazi
- Frederic Clay (1838–1889): Ages Ago, The Gentleman in Black, Happy Arcadia, Princess Toto
- Thomas Clayton (1673–1725): Rosamond, Arsinoe, Queen of Cyprus
- Carlo Coccia (1782–1873): Arrighetto, Caterina di Guisa, Clotilde
- Juan J. Colomer (1966–): El Pintor,
- Paul Constantinescu (1909–1963): , ,
- David Conte (1955– ): The Dreamers, Gift of the Magi
- Aaron Copland (1900–1990): The Second Hurricane, The Tender Land
- Azio Corghi (1937– ): , Divara – Wasser und Blut
- John Corigliano (1938– ): The Ghosts of Versailles
- Peter Cornelius (1824–1874): Der Barbier von Bagdad, ,
- Noël Coward (1899–1973): Bitter Sweet
- Frederic Hymen Cowen (1852–1935): Harold or the Norman Conquest, Pauline, Signa, Thorgrim
- César Cui (1835–1918): Angelo, The Captain's Daughter, Feast in Time of Plague, Le flibustier, Ivan the Fool, Little Red Riding Hood, Mademoiselle Fifi, The Mandarin's Son, Mateo Falcone, Prisoner of the Caucasus, Puss in Boots, The Saracen, The Snow Bogatyr, William Ratcliff
- César Cui, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky, Alexander Borodin: Mlada
- Douglas J. Cuomo (1958– ): Doubt
- Charles Cuvillier (1877–1955): Lilac Domino
- Chaya Czernowin (1957– ): ,
D[]
- Nicolas Dalayrac (1753–1809): L'amant statue, Les deux petits savoyards, Nina
- Luigi Dallapiccola (1904–1975): , Il prigioniero, Ulisse, Volo di notte
- Ikuma Dan (1924–2001): Yūzuru (Twilight Crane),
- Richard Danielpour (1956– ): Margaret Garner
- Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813–1869): Rusalka, The Stone Guest (Kammeny Gost)
- Michael Kevin Daugherty (1954– ): Jackie O
- Antoine Dauvergne (1713–1797): Les troqueurs
- Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016): The Doctor of Myddfai, Eight Songs for a Mad King, Kommilitonen!, The Lighthouse, The Martyrdom of St Magnus, Mr Emmet Takes a Walk, Resurrection, Taverner
- Victor Davies (1939– ): Transit of Venus
- Anthony Davis (1951– ): X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X, , , , Wakonda's Dream
- Don Davis (1957– ): Río de Sangre
- Claude Debussy (1862–1918): Pelléas et Mélisande, Rodrigue et Chimène, Le diable dans le beffroi, La chute de la maison Usher
- Reginald De Koven (1859–1920): The Canterbury Pilgrims (De Koven)
- Brett Dean (1961– ): Bliss
- Miguel del Aguila (1957– ):
- Léo Delibes (1836–1891): Jean de Nivelle, Lakmé, Le roi l'a dit
- Frederick Delius (1862–1934): Fennimore and Gerda, Koanga, A Village Romeo and Juliet (Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe)
- Rudolf Dellinger (1857–1910):
- Norman Dello Joio (1913–2008): The Triumph of St. Joan
- Edison Denisov (1929–1996): (Ivan-Soldat), L'écume des jours,
- Henri Desmarets (1661–1741): Didon, Vénus et Adonis, Iphigénie en Tauride
- Paul Dessau (1894–1979): Die Verurteilung des Lukullus, Einstein
- André Cardinal Destouches (1672–1749): Callirhoé, Les élémens, Issé
- Anton Diabelli (1781–1858):
- Charles Dibdin (1745–1814): , , The Padlock, The Recruiting Serjeant.
- David DiChiera (1935– ): Cyrano
- Violeta Dinescu (1953– ): , , Eréndira, ,
- Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848): Adelia, L'ajo nell'imbarazzo, Alahor in Granata, Alfredo il grande, Alina, regina di Golconda, L'Ange de Nisida, Anna Bolena, L'assedio di Calais, Belisario, Betly, Il campanello, Il castello di Kenilworth, Caterina Cornaro, Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali, Il diluvio universale, Le duc d'Albe, Dom Sébastien, Don Pasquale, L'elisir d'amore, Elvida, Emilia di Liverpool, Enrico di Borgogna, L'esule di Roma, Fausta, La favorite (La favorita), La fille du régiment, Francesca di Foix, Gabriella di Vergy, Gemma di Vergy, Gianni di Calais, Gianni di Parigi, Imelda de' Lambertazzi, Linda di Chamounix, Lucia di Lammermoor, Lucrezia Borgia, Maria di Rohan, Maria de Rudenz, Maria Padilla, Maria Stuarda, Marino Faliero, Olivo e Pasquale, Otto mesi in due ore, Il Pigmalione, Parisina, Pia de' Tolomei, Pietro il grande, Poliuto, Rita, Roberto Devereux, Rosmonda d'Inghilterra, Torquato Tasso, Ugo, conte di Parigi, La zingara, Zoraida di Granata
- Nico Dostal (1895–1981): , , , Die ungarische Hochzeit
- Jonathan Dove (1959– ): The Adventures of Pinocchio, Flight
- Sabin Drăgoi (1894–1968): , Horia, Kir Ianulea, (Napasta)
- Deborah Drattell (1956– ): Lilith,
- Paul Dukas (1865–1935): Ariane et Barbe-Bleue
- Thomas Dunhill (1877–1946): Tantivy Towers
- Egidio Romualdo Duni (1708–1775): L'école de la jeunesse, La fée Urgèle, Le peintre amoureux de son modèle
- Pascal Dusapin (1955– ): , Perelà, uomo di fumo
- Alphonse Duvernoy (1842–1907): , Hellé
- Antonín Dvořák (1841–1904): Alfred, Armida, The Cunning Peasant, The Devil and Kate (Čert a Káča), Dimitrij, The Jacobin (Jakobín), King and Charcoal Burner, Rusalka, The Stubborn Lovers (Tvrdé palice), Vanda
E[]
- John Eaton (1935– ): , ,
- John Eccles (1668–1735): Semele, The Judgement of Paris
- Werner Egk (1901–1983): Peer Gynt, Die Verlobung in San Domingo, Die Zaubergeige
- Gottfried von Einem (1918–1996): Der Besuch der alten Dame, Dantons Tod, , Der Prozess
- George Enescu (1881–1955): Œdipe
- Péter Eötvös (1944– ): Tri sestry, Love and Other Demons, Der goldene Drache
- Ferenc Erkel (1810–1893): Bánk bán, Hunyadi László
- Camille Erlanger (1863–1919): Le Juif Polonais
- Iván Erőd (1936– ): , , , , , Pünktchen und Anton
- Edmund Eysler (1874–1949): Bruder Straubinger,
F[]
- Franco Faccio (1840–1891): Amleto
- Leo Fall (1873–1925): , Die Dollarprinzessin, Der fidele Bauer, Die geschiedene Frau, (English version: Princess Caprice), Madame Pompadour
- Manuel de Falla (1876–1946): Los amores de la Inés, El retablo de maese Pedro, La vida breve
- Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924): Pénélope, Prométhée
- Giuseppe Farinelli (1769–1836): Calliroe, Il Cid della Spagna, I riti d'Efeso
- Ivan Fedele (1953– ):
- Morton Feldman (1926–1987): Neither
- Francesco Feo (1691–1761):
- Brian Ferneyhough (1943– ): Shadowtime
- Lorenzo Ferrero (1951– ): , Marilyn, La figlia del mago, Mare nostro, , Salvatore Giuliano, Charlotte Corday, , , La Conquista, Le piccole storie: Ai margini delle guerre, Risorgimento!
- Henry Février (1875–1957): Monna Vanna
- Zdeněk Fibich (1850–1900): , The Bride of Messina (Nevěsta messinská), , (Pád Arkuna), Hedy, Šárka, (Bouře)
- Vivian Fine (1913–2000):
- Gottfried Finger (c. 1660–1730): The Virgin Prophetess
- Michael Finnissy (1946– ):
- Valentino Fioravanti (1764–1837): Le cantatrici villane
- Elena Firsova (1950– ): A Feast in Time of Plague (Pir vo vremya chumy), The Nightingale and the Rose
- Domenico Fischietti (c. 1725–after c. 1810): , ,
- Veniamin Fleishman (1913–1941): Rothschild's Violin
- Friedrich von Flotow (1812–1883): Alessandro Stradella, Martha
- Carlisle Floyd (1926– ): Cold Sassy Tree, Flower and Hawk, Of Mice and Men, , Susannah, Willie Stark, Wuthering Heights
- Josef Bohuslav Foerster (1859–1951): , Eva, Jessika, The Invincible Ones (Nepřemožení), The Heart (Srdce), The Fool a.k.a. The Simpleton (Bloud)
- Yevstigney Fomin (1761–1800): (Yamshchiki na podstave)
- Ernest Ford (1858–1919): Jane Annie
- Jacopo Foroni (1825–1858): Cristina, regina di Svezia
- Wolfgang Fortner (1907–1987): Bluthochzeit
- Lukas Foss (1922–2009): , Griffelkin,
- Alberto Franchetti (1860–1942): Cristoforo Colombo, Germania, Asrael, La figlia di Iorio
- César Franck (1822–1890): Hulda, Ghiselle
- François Francoeur (1698–1787) and François Rebel (1701–1775): Pirame et Thisbé, Scanderberg
- Harold Fraser-Simson (1872–1944): The Maid of the Mountains
- Rudolf Friml (1879–1972): The Firefly, Rose-Marie, The Vagabond King
G[]
- Marco da Gagliano (1582–1643): Dafne
- Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785): Il filosofo di campagna, L'inimico delle donne (L'italiana in Oriente)
- Hans Gál (1890–1987): , Die heilige Ente, Das Lied der Nacht,
- Louis Ganne (1862–1923): Les saltimbanques
- Francesco Gasparini (1661–1727): Ambleto, Tamerlano, Bajazet
- Florian Leopold Gassmann (1729–1774): ,
- Stanislao Gastaldon (1861–1939): Mala Pasqua!
- Pierre Gaveaux (1761–1825): Le trompeur trompé
- Joaquín Gaztambide (1822–1870): El estreno de una artista, El juramento, Un pleito, Una vieja
- Giuseppe Gazzaniga (1743–1818): Antigono, Il barone di Trocchia, Don Giovanni Tenorio, , ,
- Pietro Generali (1773–1832): Adelina
- Roberto Gerhard (1896–1970):
- Edward German (1862–1936): The Emerald Isle (with Arthur Sullivan), Fallen Fairies, Merrie England, A Princess of Kensington, The Rival Poets, Tom Jones
- Thomas German Reed (1817–1888): Eyes and No Eyes, No Cards, Our Island Home, A Sensation Novel
- George Gershwin (1898–1937): Blue Monday, Porgy and Bess
- Ottmar Gerster (1897–1969): Enoch Arden,
- Geminiano Giacomelli (1692–1740): La Merope
- Vittorio Giannini (1903–1966): Blennerhassett, The Taming of the Shrew
- Jean Gilbert (1879–1942): Die keusche Susanne
- Alberto Ginastera (1916–1983): Bomarzo, Beatrix Cenci, Don Rodrigo
- Umberto Giordano (1867–1948): La cena delle beffe, Andrea Chénier, Fedora, Madame Sans-Gêne, Mese mariano, Il re, Siberia
- Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912–1990): , The Transposed Heads
- Philip Glass (1937– ): 1000 Airplanes on the Roof, Akhnaten, Appomattox, La Belle et la bête, The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down, , Einstein on the Beach, , Galileo Galilei, Hydrogen Jukebox, The Juniper Tree, Kepler, Monsters of Grace, The Photographer, Satyagraha, The Voyage
- Mikhail Glinka (1804–1857): A Life for the Tsar (Zhizn za tsarya), Ruslan and Lyudmila
- Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787): Alceste, L'arbre enchanté, Armide, Le cadi dupé, Le cinesi, La Cythère assiégée, Le diable à quatre, Echo et Narcisse, La fausse esclave, Le feste d'Apollo, L'ile de Merlin, Iphigénie en Aulide, Iphigénie en Tauride, L'ivrogne corrigé, Orfeo ed Euridice, Paride ed Elena, La rencontre imprévue, Telemaco
- Benjamin Godard (1849–1895): Jocelyn
- Alexander Goedicke (1877–1957): Virineya (Виринея), (У перевоза), (Жакерия), (Макбет)
- Alexander Goehr (1932– ): Arden Must Die, Arianna, Behold the Sun,
- Hermann Goetz (1840–1876): Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung
- Walter Goetze (1883–1961): Der goldene Pierrot, Ihre Hoheit, die Tänzerin
- Karl Goldmark (1830–1915): , Die Königin von Saba
- Osvaldo Golijov (1960– ): Ainadamar
- Antônio Carlos Gomes (1836–1896): , Fosca, Il Guarany, , Lo schiavo, Maria Tudor, A noite do castelo, Salvator Rosa
- Fernando González Casellas (1925–1998):
- Ricky Ian Gordon (1956– ): The Grapes of Wrath
- François-Joseph Gossec (1734–1829): , Sabinus, Thésée, ,
- Jakov Gotovac (1895–1982): Ero s onoga svijeta (Ero the Joker)
- Charles Gounod (1818–1893): Cinq-Mars, La colombe, Faust, Maître Pierre, Le médecin malgré lui, Mireille, La nonne sanglante, Philémon et Baucis, Polyeucte, La reine de Saba, Roméo et Juliette, Sapho, Le tribut de Zamora
- Orlando Gough (1953–): The Finnish Prisoner
- Louis Grabu (fl. 1665–1690, died after 1693): Albion and Albanius
- Paul Graener (1872–1944): Hanneles Himmelfahrt
- Enrique Granados (1867–1916): Goyescas, María del Carmen
- Bruno Granichstaedten (1879–1944): Der Orlow
- Carl Heinrich Graun (1704–1759): Montezuma
- Maurice Greene (1696–1755): ,
- André Grétry (1741–1813): L'amant jaloux, Andromaque, Aucassin et Nicolette, La caravane du Caire, Colinette à la cour, L’épreuve villageoise, Les deux avares, Guillaume Tell, Le Huron, Le jugement de Midas, Lucile, Les mariages samnites, Pierre le Grand, Richard Coeur-de-lion, Le tableau parlant, Zémire et Azor
- George Grossmith (1847–1912): Haste to the Wedding, Cups and Saucers
- Jacinto Guerrero (1895–1951): El huésped del Sevillano
- Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi (1728–1804): , , La pastorella nobile, Il ratto della sposa, Lo spirito di contradizione, La sposa fedele
- Manfred Gurlitt (1890–1973): Wozzeck
H[]
- Pavel Haas (1899–1944): Šarlatán
- Alois Hába (1893–1973): The Mother
- Henry Kimball Hadley (1871–1937): Azora, the Daughter of Montezuma, Bianca, Cleopatra's Night, A Night in Old Paris, Safié
- Daron Hagen (1961– ): Amelia, Shining Brow, Bandanna, Vera of Las Vegas, The Antient Concert, New York Stories
- Reynaldo Hahn (1874–1947): Ciboulette
- Jakob Haibel (1762–1826):
- Fromental Halévy (1799–1862): L'artisan, Charles VI, L'éclair, Jaguarita l'Indienne, Le Juif errant, La Juive, Ludovic, Le nabab, Noé, La reine de Chypre, Le val d'Andorre
- Iain Hamilton (1922–2000): Anna Karenina, ,
- George Frideric Handel (1685–1759): Acis and Galatea, Admeto, Agrippina, Alcina, Alessandro, Alessandro Severo, Almira, Amadigi di Gaula, Arianna in Creta, Ariodante, Arminio, Atalanta, Berenice, Deidamia, Ezio, Faramondo, Flavio, Floridante, Florindo, Giove in Argo, Giulio Cesare, Giustino, Hercules, Imeneo, Lotario, Muzio Scevola, Oreste, Orlando, Ottone, Parnasso in festa, Partenope, Il pastor fido, Poro, Radamisto, Riccardo Primo, Rinaldo, Rodelinda, Rodrigo, Samson, Scipione, Semele, Serse, Silla, Siroe, Sosarme, Tamerlano, Teseo, Theodora, Tolomeo
- Howard Hanson (1896–1981): Merry Mount
- Kazuko Hara (1935– ): ,
- John Harbison (1938– ): The Great Gatsby
- Stephen Hartke (1952– ): The Greater Good, or the Passion of Boule de Suif
- Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783): Artaserse, Antonio e Cleopatra, Cleofide, Piramo e Tisbe, Siroe, Il Ruggiero
- Joseph Haydn (1732–1809): L'anima del filosofo, Armida, La canterina, La fedeltà premiata, L'infedeltà delusa, L'isola disabitata, Il mondo della luna, Orlando paladino, Lo speziale, La vera costanza, L'incontro improvviso
- Jake Heggie (1961– ): Dead Man Walking, The End of the Affair, Last Acts
- Peter Arnold Heise (1830–1879): Drot og marsk
- Moya Henderson (1941– ): Lindy
- Hans Werner Henze (1926–2012): The Bassarids, Boulevard Solitude, Elegy for Young Lovers, The English Cat, Der junge Lord, König Hirsch, Phaedra, Der Prinz von Homburg, L'Upupa und der Triumph der Sohnesliebe, Venus und Adonis, Das verratene Meer, We Come to the River
- Victor Herbert (1859–1924): Babes in Toyland, Dream City, The Dream Girl, Eileen, The Fortune Teller, The Magic Knight, Mlle. Modiste, Natoma, Naughty Marietta, Prince Ananias, The Princess Pat, The Red Mill, The Serenade, Sweethearts, The Wizard of the Nile
- Ferdinand Hérold (1791–1833): Le pré aux clercs, Zampa
- Bernard Herrmann (1911–1975): Wuthering Heights
- Philippe Hersant (1948– ): Le Château des Carpathes,
- Hervé (1825–1892): Chilpéric, Don Quichotte et Sancho Pança, Mam'zelle Nitouche
- Richard Heuberger (1850–1914): Der Opernball
- Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614–1685): Celos aun del aire matan, ,
- Johann Adam Hiller (1728–1804): Die Jagd, Lisuart und Dariolette, Lottchen am Hofe, Die verwandelten Weiber
- Paul Hindemith (1895–1963): Cardillac, Die Harmonie der Welt, Hin und zurück, Lehrstück, The Long Christmas Dinner, Mathis der Maler, Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen, Neues vom Tage, Das Nusch-Nuschi, Sancta Susanna,
- Emil Hlobil (1901–1987): Anna Karenina, ,
- Lee Hoiby (1926–2011): The Scarf,
- E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776–1822): Undine
- Igo Hofstetter (1926–2002): , ,
- York Höller (1944– ): Der Meister und Margarita
- Heinz Holliger (1939– ): Schneewittchen
- Gustav Holst (1874–1934): The Revoke, The Idea, The Youth's Choice, , At the Boar's Head, The Perfect Fool, Savitri, The Wandering Scholar
- Ignaz Holzbauer (1711–1783): Günther von Schwarzburg
- Arthur Honegger (1892–1955): , Antigone, Les aventures du roi Pausole, , , L'aiglon (with Jacques Ibert)
- Toshio Hosokawa (1955– ): Vision of Lear,
- Jenő Hubay (1858–1937): Alienor, A cremonai hegedűs (The Violin Maker of Cremona), A falu rossza (The Village Vagabond), Moharózsa (Moss Rose), Lavotta szerelme, Karenina Anna (Anna Karenina), Az álarc (The Mask), A milói Vénusz (The Venus de Milo), Az önző óriás (The Selfish Giant; based on the story by Oscar Wilde)
- Engelbert Humperdinck (1854–1921): Hänsel und Gretel, Königskinder
- Ilja Hurník (1922–2013): (The Lady and the Robbers), (Wisemen and Fools), (Fishermen in Their Own Nets), (Oldřich and Boženka)
- Jenő Huszka (1875–1960): Aranyvirág, Prince Bob (Bob herceg), Gül Baba, Baroness Lili (Lili bárónő), Tilos a Bemenet (No Entry)
- Ketil Hvoslef (1939– ):
- Jason Kao Hwang (1957– ): The Floating Box: A Story in Chinatown
I[]
- Vincent d'Indy (1851–1931): , , Fervaal, ,
- Nicolas Isouard (1775–1818): Cendrillon, , Les rendez-vous bourgeois
J[]
- Victor Jacobi (1883–1921): The Bravest Hussar, The Haughty Princess, The Marriage Market, Szibill
- Edward Jakobowski (1858–1927): Erminie
- Leoš Janáček (1854–1928): The Beginning of a Romance (Počátek Románu), The Cunning Little Vixen (Příhody lišky Bystroušky), Destiny (Osud), The Excursions of Mr. Brouček to the Moon and to the 15th Century (Výlet pana Broučka do XV století/Výlet pana Broučka do Měsíce), From the House of the Dead (Z mrtvého domu), Jenůfa (Její pastorkyňa), Káťa Kabanová, The Makropulos Affair (Věc Makropulos), Šárka
- Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre (1665–1729): Céphale et Procris
- Georg Jarno (1868–1920): Die Försterchristl
- Leon Jessel (1871–1942): Schwarzwaldmädel
- Alan John (1958– ): The Eighth Wonder, Through the Looking Glass
- Niccolò Jommelli (1714–1774): Armida abbandonata, , , , , , , Vologeso
- Scott Joplin (1868–1917): A Guest of Honor, Treemonisha
- Wilfred Josephs (1927–1997):
K[]
- Emmerich Kálmán (1882–1953): Arizona Lady, Die Bajadere, Gräfin Mariza, Die Csárdásfürstin, Zsuzsi kisasszony, Die Herzogin von Chicago, Kaiserin Josephine, Marinka, Az obsitos (The Soldier on Leave), Tatárjárás, Das Veilchen vom Montmartre, Der Zigeunerprimas (The Gipsy Virtuoso), Die Zirkusprinzessin
- Manolis Kalomiris (1883–1962): , , , ,
- Rudolf Kattnigg (1895–1955):
- Nigel Keay (1955– ):
- Reinhard Keiser (1674–1739): Croesus, , , Octavia,
- Jerome Kern (1885–1945): Show Boat
- Wilhelm Kienzl (1857–1941): Der Evangelimann, Der Kuhreigen
- :
- Giselher Klebe (1925–2009): Alkmene, Chlestakows Wiederkehr, Die Ermordung Cäsars, Die Fastnachtsbeichte, Figaro läßt sich scheiden, Gervaise Macquart, Jacobowsky und der Oberst, Der Jüngste Tag, Das Mädchen aus Domrémy, Das Märchen von der schönen Lilie, Die Räuber, Das Rendezvous, Die tödlichen Wünsche, Ein wahrer Held
- Alexander Knaifel (1943– ): The Canterville Ghost (Kentervil'skoye prividenie), Alice in Wonderland
- Oliver Knussen (1952–2018): , Where the Wild Things Are
- Zoltán Kodály (1882–1967): Háry János
- Joonas Kokkonen (1921–1996): The Last Temptations
- Walter Kollo (1878–1940): , Filmzauber, ,
- Nikolai Korndorf (1947–2001): MR (Marina and Rainer)
- Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897–1957): Die Kathrin, Der Ring des Polykrates, Die tote Stadt, Violanta, Das Wunder der Heliane
- Petr Kotik (1942– )
- Reginald De Koven (1859–1920): , , Rob Roy, Robin Hood
- Hans Krása (1899–1944): Brundibár
- Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962):
- Ernst Krenek (1900–1991): The Bell Tower, Cefalo e Procri, Der Diktator, Jonny spielt auf, Karl V, Leben des Orest, Orpheus und Eurydike, Schwergewicht, Tarquin, What Price Confidence?
- Conradin Kreutzer (1780–1849): Das Nachtlager in Granada, Der Verschwender
- Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766–1831): La mort d'Abel
- Eduard Künneke (1885–1953): The Cousin from Nowhere
- F.L.Æ. Kunzen (1761–1817): Holger Danske
L[]
- Helmut Lachenmann (1935– ):
- Franz Lachner (1803–1890):
- Lori Laitman (1955– ): , The Scarlet Letter, The Three Feathers
- Édouard Lalo (1823–1892): Le roi d'Ys, Fiesque
- John La Montaine (1920–2013): , , ,
- Stefano Landi (1587–1639): La morte d'Orfeo, Il Sant'Alessio
- Elena Langer (1974– ): Figaro Gets a Divorce
- Rued Langgaard (1893–1952): Antikrist
- Isidore de Lara (1858–1935): Messaline
- Lars-Erik Larsson (1908–1986): Prinsessan av Cypern
- Felice Lattuada (1882–1962): ,
- Elodie Lauten (1950–2014):
- Armas Launis (1884–1959): , , , , among others
- Henry Lawes (1595–1662), Henry Cooke (1616–1672) et al.: The Siege of Rhodes
- Jean-Marie Leclair (1697–1764): Scylla et Glaucus
- Charles Lecocq (1832–1918): La fille de Madame Angot, Giroflé-Girofla, Le petit duc
- Ton de Leeuw (1926–1996):
- Nicola LeFanu (1947– ): , ,
- Giovanni Legrenzi (1626–1690): , Eteocle e Polinice, Il Giustino, La divisione del mondo, Totila, Zenobia e Radamisto
- Franz Lehár (1870–1948): Endlich allein, Giuditta, Der Göttergatte, Der Graf von Luxemburg, The Land of Smiles (Das Land des Lächelns), The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe), Paganini, Der Zarewitsch
- Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1751–1796) Électre, Nephté, Phèdre
- Nicholas Lens (1957– ): Slow Man, Shell Shock
- Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919): Are You There?, La bohème, Chatterton, , , , , I Medici, Pagliacci, Der Roland von Berlin, Zazà, Zingari
- Jean-François Le Sueur (1760–1837): La caverne, La mort d'Adam, Ossian, ou Les bardes
- György Ligeti (1923–2006): Le Grand Macabre
- Liza Lim (1966– ): The Navigator
- Paul Lincke (1866–1946):
- Peter Josef von Lindpaintner (1791–1856): Der Vampyr
- Thomas Linley the elder (1733–1795): The Duenna
- Vatroslav Lisinski (1819–1854): Porin
- Franz Liszt (1811–1886): Don Sanche
- Antonio de Literes (1673–1747): Los elementos, Acis y Galatea, Júpiter y Semele
- Ricardo Llorca (1962– ):
- George Lloyd (1913–1998): John Socman
- Matthew Locke (1621–1677): The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, The History of Sir Francis Drake
- Edward Loder (1813–1865): Raymond and Agnes
- Richard Harvey Lohr: Kenilworth
- Albert Lortzing (1801–1851): , , Die Opernprobe, Undine, Der Waffenschmied, Der Wildschütz, Zar und Zimmermann
- Charles Lucas: The Regicide
- Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687): Achille et Polyxène, Acis et Galatée, Alceste, Amadis, Armide, Atys, Bellérophon, Cadmus et Hermione, , Isis, , Persée, Phaëton, Proserpine, Psyché, Roland, Thésée
- Meyer Lutz (1829–1903): Faust and Marguerite
- Ralph Lyford (1882–1927): Castle Agrazant
- Mykola Lysenko (1842–1912): Natalka Poltavka, Taras Bulba,
M[]
- Lorin Maazel (1930–2014): 1984
- Hamish MacCunn (1868–1916): Jeanie Deans
- George Alexander Macfarren (1813–1887): Robin Hood, She Stoops to Conquer,
- Alexander Mackenzie (1847–1935): , His Majesty
- James MacMillan (1959– ): , The Sacrifice, Clemency
- Elizabeth Maconchy (1907–1994): , , The Three Strangers
- Bruno Maderna (1920–1973): Satyricon
- Leevi Madetoja (1887–1947): The Ostrobothnians (Pohjalaisia), Juha
- Albéric Magnard (1865–1914): Bérénice, Guercœur
- Ernst Mahle (1929– ): , , O Garatuja
- Mesías Maiguashca (1938– ):
- Aimé Maillart (1817–1871): Les dragons de Villars
- Kiril Makedonski (1925–1984): Goce
- Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882–1973): Torneo notturno
- Francesco Mancini (1672–1737): L’Idaspe fedele
- Philippe Manoury (1952– ): ,
- Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795–1872):
- Marin Marais (1656–1728): Alcyone, Sémélé
- Filippo Marchetti (1831–1902): ,
- Miguel Marqués (1843–1918): Perla, El zortzico, El reloj de Lucerna
- Heinrich Marschner (1795–1861): Hans Heiling, Der Templer und die Jüdin, Der Vampyr
- Vicente Martín y Soler (1754–1806): L'arbore di Diana, Una cosa rara, Il burbero di buon cuore
- Bohuslav Martinů (1890–1959): Alexandre bis, Ariane, Comedy on the Bridge (Veselohra na mostě), The Greek Passion (Řecké pašije), Julietta, The Marriage (Ženitba), Mirandolina, (Hry o Marii), Les trois souhaits, (Hlas lesa), What Men Live By (Čím člověk žije)
- Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945): Amica, L'amico Fritz, Cavalleria rusticana, Guglielmo Ratcliff, Iris, Isabeau, Lodoletta, Le maschere, Nerone, Parisina, Il piccolo Marat, I Rantzau, Silvano, Zanetto
- Benedict Mason (1954– ):
- Victor Massé (1822–1884): Les noces de Jeannette
- Jules Massenet (1842–1912): Amadis, Ariane, Bacchus, Cendrillon, Chérubin, Le Cid, Cléopâtre, Don César de Bazan, Don Quichotte, Esclarmonde, La grand'tante, Grisélidis, Hérodiade, Le jongleur de Notre-Dame, Le mage, Manon, La Navarraise, Panurge, Le portrait de Manon, Le roi de Lahore, Roma, Sapho, Thaïs, Thérèse, Werther
- Teizo Matsumura (1929–2007): (Silence)
- Siegfried Matthus (1934–2021): , Judith, , ,
- Nicholas Maw (1935–2009): The Rising of the Moon, Sophie's Choice
- Simon Mayr (1763–1845): L'amor coniugale, Ginevra di Scozia, La Lodoiska, Medea in Corinto, La rosa bianca e la rosa rossa, Fedra, Adelaide di Guesclino
- Toshiro Mayuzumi (1929–1997): (The Golden Pavilion)
- Domenico Mazzocchi (1592–1665): La catena d'Adone
- Virgilio Mazzocchi (1597–1646) and Marco Marazzoli (c. 1602 to 1608–1662): Chi soffre, speri
- Richard Meale (1932–2009): Voss
- Kirke Mechem (1925– ): Tartuffe
- Étienne Méhul (1763–1817): Adrien, Les amazones, Ariodant, Euphrosine, Horatius Coclès, L'irato, Le jeune Henri, Joseph, Mélidore et Phrosine, Stratonice, Uthal
- Alessandro Melani (1639–1703): L'empio punito
- Jacopo Melani (1623–1676): ,
- Erkki Melartin (1875–1937): Aino
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847): Die beiden Neffen, , Die Heimkehr aus der Fremde, Die Hochzeit des Camacho,
- Gian Carlo Menotti (1911–2007): Amahl and the Night Visitors, Amelia Goes to the Ball, The Boy Who Grew Too Fast, The Consul, Help, Help, the Globolinks!, The Last Savage, Maria Golovin, The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief, The Saint of Bleecker Street, The Telephone, or L'Amour à trois
- Saverio Mercadante (1795–1870): Il bravo, I briganti, Elena da Feltre, Elisa e Claudio, Il giuramento, Orazi e Curiazi, , La vestale, Virginia, The Most Important Man
- Aarre Merikanto (1893–1958): Juha
- Oskar Merikanto (1868–1927): Maiden of the North
- André Messager (1853–1929): L'amour masqué, La Basoche, La Béarnaise, Béatrice, Le bourgeois de Calais, Coups de roulis, La fauvette du temple, Fortunio, François les bas-bleus, Isoline, Le mari de la reine, Madame Chrysanthème, Mirette, Monsieur Beaucaire, Passionément, La petite fonctionnaire, Les p'tites Michu, Véronique
- Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992): Saint François d'Assise
- Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864): L'Africaine, Il crociato in Egitto, Dinorah, L'esule di Granata, L'étoile du nord, Ein Feldlager in Schlesien, Les Huguenots, Jephtas Gelübde, Margherita d'Anjou, Le prophète, Robert le diable, Semiramide riconosciuta
- Marcel Mihalovici (1898–1985): Krapp, ou, La dernière bande
- Minoru Miki (1930–2011): , , Genji monogatari, , Jōruri, , , , Shunkinshō, , ,
- Darius Milhaud (1892–1974): L'abandon d'Ariane, , Christophe Colomb, , La mère coupable, Le pauvre matelot
- Carl Millöcker (1842–1899): , Der Bettelstudent, Gräfin Dubarry, Gasparone,
- Richard Mills (1949– ): Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Batavia, The Love of the Nightingale
- Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711–1772): Les fêtes de Paphos, Titon et l'Aurore
- Stanisław Moniuszko (1819–1872): The Countess (Hrabina), Halka, The Haunted Manor (Straszny dwór), Verbum nobile
- Meredith Monk (1942– ): Atlas
- Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny (1729–1817): Aline, reine de Golconde, Le déserteur, , Le roi et le fermier
- Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667–1737): , Jephté
- Italo Montemezzi (1875–1952): L'amore dei tre re, , , L'incantesimo, La nave,
- José Ángel Montero (1832–1881): Virginia
- Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643): L'Arianna, L'incoronazione di Poppea, L'Orfeo, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
- Douglas Moore (1893–1969): The Ballad of Baby Doe, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Carry Nation, Giants in the Earth
- Robert Moran (1937– ): , , From the Towers of the Moon, The Juniper Tree,
- Federico Moreno Torroba (1891–1982): Luisa Fernanda, , , El poeta
- Lodewijk Mortelmans (1868–1952): (The Children of the Sea)
- Jean-Joseph Mouret (1682–1738): Les amours de Ragonde
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791): Apollo et Hyacinthus, Ascanio in Alba, Bastien und Bastienne, La clemenza di Tito, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, La finta giardiniera, La finta semplice, Idomeneo, Lucio Silla, The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Mitridate, re di Ponto, L'oca del Cairo, Il re pastore, Der Schauspieldirektor, Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, Il sogno di Scipione, Lo sposo deluso, Thamos, King of Egypt, Zaide
- Wenzel Müller (1767–1835): , , , , , ,
- Vano Muradeli (1908–1970): The Great Friendship,
- Thea Musgrave (1928– ): , , , Mary, Queen of Scots, ,
- Modest Mussorgsky (1839–1881): Boris Godunov, The Fair at Sorochyntsi (Sorochinskaya Yarmarka), Khovanshchina, Zhenitba (The Marriage), Salammbô
- Emanuele Muzio (1821–1890): , , ,
- Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781): Adriano in Siria (Mysliveček), Antigona, Antigono, Armida, Artaserse, Atide, Il Bellerofonte, La Calliroe, La Circe, La clemenza di Tito, Demetrio [1st version], Demetrio [2nd version], Demofoonte [1st version], Demofoonte [2nd version], Ezio [1st version], Ezio [2nd version], Farnace, Tamerlano, Ipermestra (Mysliveček), Medonte (Mysliveček), Motezuma, La Nitteti, L'Olimpiade, Romolo ed Ersilia, Semiramide, Il trionfo di Clelia
N[]
- Nicolas Nabokov (1903–1978): Love's Labour's Lost
- Eduard Nápravník (1839–1916): Dubrovsky
- Isaac Nathan (1792–1864): Don John of Austria
- Oskar Nedbal (1874–1930): , Vinobraní
- Christian Gottlob Neefe (1748–1798):
- Viktor Nessler (1841–1890): Der Rattenfänger von Hameln, Der Trompeter von Säkkingen
- Otto Nicolai (1810–1849): The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Edmund Nick (1891–1973): Das kleine Hofkonzert
- Louis Niedermeyer (1802–1861): Marie Stuart, Stradella
- Carl Nielsen (1865–1931): Maskarade, Saul og David
- Alessandro Nini (1805–1880):
- Luigi Nono (1924–1990): Al gran sole carico d'amore, Intolleranza 1960, Prometeo
- Serge Noskov (1956– ): Kuratov
- Vítězslav Novák (1870–1949): (The Lantern)
- Ivor Novello (1893–1951): The Dancing Years, Perchance to Dream, King's Rhapsody
- Michael Nyman (1944– ): Facing Goya, Letters, Riddles and Writs, Love Counts, Man and Boy: Dada, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Noises, Sounds & Sweet Airs, Tristram Shandy
O[]
- Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880): Le 66, Apothicaire et perruquier, Bagatelle, Barbe-bleue, Barkouf, Ba-ta-clan, Les bavards, La belle Hélène, La bonne d'enfant, Les brigands, La chanson de Fortunio, Le château à Toto, La chatte métamorphosée en femme, La créole, Croquefer, ou Le dernier des paladins, Daphnis et Chloé, Les deux aveugles, Fantasio, La fille du tambour-major, Le financier et le savetier, Geneviève de Brabant, La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein, L'île de Tulipatan, La jolie parfumeuse, Lischen et Fritzchen, Madame Favart, Madame l'archiduc, Le mariage aux lanternes, Mesdames de la Halle, M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le . . ., Monsieur et Madame Denis, Orpheus in the Underworld, La Périchole, La permission de dix heures, Pierrette et Jacquot, Le pont des soupirs, Robinson Crusoé, La rose de Saint-Flour, The Tales of Hoffmann, Tromb-al-ca-zar, ou Les criminels dramatiques, Un mari à la porte, Vert-Vert, La Vie parisienne, Le violoneux, Le voyage dans la lune
- Carl Orff (1895–1982): Antigonae, De temporum fine comoedia, Der Mond, Die Kluge, Prometheus
- Giuseppe Maria Orlandini (1676–1760):
P[]
- Giovanni Pacini (1796–1867): Alessandro nelle Indie, , , Carlo di Borgogna, , , Maria, regina d'Inghilterra, Medea, Saffo, L'ultimo giorno di Pompei
- Fredrik Pacius (1809–1891): Kung Karls jakt, Prinsessan av Cypern
- Ferdinando Paer (1771–1839): , Agnese (opera), , I fuorusciti di Firenze, Leonora, Le maître de chapelle
- Giovanni Paisiello (1741–1816): Il barbiere di Siviglia, , , , , , I giuochi d'Agrigento, , , Nina, , , Proserpine, Il re Teodoro in Venezia,
- Zakaria Paliashvili (1871–1933): , ,
- Selim Palmgren (1878–1951):
- Roxanna Panufnik (1968– ):
- Jorma Panula (1930– ): Jaakko Ilkka
- Gérard Pape (1955– ): , , ,
- Ian Parrott (1916–2012):
- Thomas Pasatieri (1945– ): , Black Widow, Calvary, , , , , , , , , , , The Seagull, , Three Sisters, The Trial of Mary Lincoln, , ,
- Jiří Pauer (1919–2007):
- Stephen Paulus (1947– ): The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Carlo Pedrotti (1817–1893): Tutti in maschera
- Jorge Peña Hen (1928–1973): La Cenicienta
- Krzysztof Penderecki (1933–2020): The Devils of Loudun, Paradise Lost, Die schwarze Maske, Ubu Rex
- Manuel Penella (1880–1939): El gato montés
- Johann Christoph Pepusch (1667–1752): Thomyris, Queen of Scythia, The Beggar's Opera
- Davide Perez (1711–1778): Solimano
- Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736): Adriano in Siria, Lo frate 'nnamorato, , L'Olimpiade, Il prigionier superbo, La serva padrona
- Jacopo Peri (1561–1633): Dafne, Euridice
- Giuseppe Persiani (c. 1799/1805–1869):
- Giacomo Antonio Perti (1661–1756): L'incoronazione di Dario
- Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867–1942): Arnljot, The Doomsday Prophets
- Errico Petrella (1813–1877): , Jone,
- Hans Pfitzner (1869–1949): Der arme Heinrich, Das Christ-Elflein, , Palestrina, Die Rose vom Liebesgarten
- François-André Danican Philidor (1726–1795): Blaise le savetier, Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège, Le maréchal ferrant, Tom Jones
- Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992): María de Buenos Aires
- Niccolò Piccinni (1728–1800): L'americano, Atys, La buona figliuola, , , Didon, Le donne vendicate, , Iphigénie en Tauride, Roland
- Tobias Picker (1954– ): An American Tragedy, Emmeline, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Thérèse Raquin
- Willem Pijper (1894–1947): ,
- Matthias Pintscher (1971– ):
- Ildebrando Pizzetti (1880–1968): Fedra, Dèbora e Jaéle, Fra Gherardo, Lo straniero, L'oro, Ifigenia, Assassinio nella cattedrale, Clitennestra
- Robert Planquette (1848–1903): Les cloches de Corneville, Nell Gwynne, Rip Van Winkle
- Ludvík Podéšť (1921–1968): , Slepice a kostelník, , , , ,
- Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886): , La Gioconda, I Lituani, ,
- Nicola Porpora (1686–1768): Arianna in Nasso, Semiramide riconosciuta, Temistocle
- Giovanni Porta (1675–1755): , Ifigenia in Aulide
- Rachel Portman (1960– ): The Little Prince
- Francis Poulenc (1899–1963): Dialogues of the Carmelites, Les mamelles de Tirésias, La voix humaine
- Henri Pousseur (1929–2009): Votre Faust, Die Erprobung des Petrus Hebraïcus, Leçons d'Enfer, Don Juan à Gnide ou les Séductions de la Chasteté
- André Previn (1929–2019): A Streetcar Named Desire, Brief Encounter
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891–1953): Betrothal in a Monastery (The Duenna) (Obrucheniye v monastyre), The Fiery Angel (Ognenniy angel), The Gambler (Igrok), The Love for Three Oranges (Lyubov k tryom apelsinam), Maddalena, Semyon Kotko, The Story of a Real Man (Povest' o nastoyashchem cheloveke), War and Peace (Voyna i mir)
- Giacomo Puccini (1858–1923): La bohème, Edgar, La fanciulla del West, Gianni Schicchi, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut, La rondine, Suor Angelica, Il tabarro, Tosca, Il trittico, Turandot, Le Villi
- Henry Purcell (1659–1695): Dido and Aeneas, Dioclesian, The Fairy-Queen, The Indian Queen, King Arthur
- Eduard Pütz (1911–2000): Riders to the Sea
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- Joseph Quesnel (1746–1809): ,
R[]
- Henri Rabaud (1873–1949): Mârouf, savetier du Caire
- Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943): Aleko, Francesca da Rimini, The Miserly Knight (Skupoy rytsar), Monna Vanna
- Väinö Raitio (1891–1945): , , , ,
- Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683–1764): Acante et Céphise, Anacréon (1754), Anacréon (1757), Les Boréades, Castor et Pollux, Daphnis et Eglé, Dardanus, Les fêtes d'Hébé, Les fêtes de l'Hymen et de l'Amour, Les fêtes de Polymnie, Les fêtes de Ramire, La guirlande, Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes galantes, Io, Naïs, La naissance d'Osiris, Nélée et Myrthis, Les Paladins, Pigmalion, Platée, La princesse de Navarre, Les sibarites, Les surprises de l'Amour, Le temple de la Gloire, Zaïs, Zéphire, Zoroastre
- Einojuhani Rautavaara (1928– ): Aleksis Kivi, Rasputin, Vincent, among others
- Maurice Ravel (1875–1937): L'enfant et les sortilèges, L'heure espagnole
- Fred Raymond (1900–1954): , Maske in Blau,
- Emil Reesen (1887–1964):
- Steve Reich (1936– ): The Cave, Three Tales
- Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752–1814): , ,
- Aribert Reimann (1936– ): Melusine, Lear, Die Gespenstersonate, Troades, Das Schloß, Medea
- Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936): Belfagor, La bella dormente nel bosco, La campana sommersa, La fiamma, Maria egiziaca
- Hermann Reutter (1900–1985): Saul, , Doktor Johannes Faust, , , , , , ,
- Ernest Reyer (1823–1909): Salammbô, Sigurd
- Alfred Reynolds (1884–1969): Derby Day
- Emil von Reznicek (1860–1945): Donna Diana
- William Barnes Rhodes (1772–1826): Bombastes Furioso
- Federico Ricci (1809–1877) & Luigi Ricci (1805–1859): Crispino e la comare
- Ferdinand Ries (1784–1838): Die Räuberbraut
- Wolfgang Rihm (1952– ): Die Eroberung von Mexico, , Die Hamletmaschine, Jakob Lenz, , , Dionysos
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844–1908): Christmas Eve, The Golden Cockerel (Zolotoy petushok), Kashchey the Deathless (Kashchey bessmertnïy), The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya (Skazaniye o nevidimom grade Kitezhe i deve Fevronii), The Maid of Pskov (Pskovityanka), May Night (Mayskaya noch'), Mlada, Mozart and Salieri (Motsart i Sal'yeri), The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga (Boyarïnya Vera Sheloga), Pan Voyevoda, Sadko, Servilia (Serviliya), The Snow Maiden (Snegurochka), The Tale of Tsar Saltan (Skazka o Tsare Saltane), The Tsar's Bride (Tsarskaya nevesta)
- Giovanni Alberto Ristori (1692–1753): Calandro
- Arturo Rodas (1954– )
- Robert Xavier Rodriguez (1946– ): La Curandera, Frida
- Gonzalo Roig (1890–1970): Cecilia Valdés
- James Rolfe (1961– ): Beatrice Chancy
- Sigmund Romberg (1887–1951): The Desert Song, The New Moon, The Student Prince
- William Michael Rooke (1794–1847) Amilie, or the Love Test,
- Joseph Willard Roosevelt (1918–2008):
- Ned Rorem (1923– ): Bertha, Miss Julie, Our Town,
- Luigi Rossi (1597–1653): Orfeo, Il palazzo incantato
- Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868): Adelaide di Borgogna, Adina, Armida, Aureliano in Palmira, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Bianca e Falliero, La cambiale di matrimonio, La Cenerentola, Ciro in Babilonia, Le comte Ory, Demetrio e Polibio, La donna del lago, Eduardo e Cristina, Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra, Ermione, L'equivoco stravagante, La gazza ladra, La gazzetta, L'inganno felice, L'italiana in Algeri, Maometto II (revised as Le siège de Corinthe), Matilde di Shabran, Mosè in Egitto, L'occasione fa il ladro, Otello, La pietra del paragone, Ricciardo e Zoraide, La scala di seta, Semiramide, Sigismondo, Il signor Bruschino, Tancredi, Torvaldo e Dorliska, Il turco in Italia, Il viaggio a Reims, William Tell, Zelmira
- Nino Rota (1911–1979): Il cappello di paglia di Firenze, I due timidi
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778): Le devin du village
- Albert Roussel (1869–1937): La naissance de la lyre, Padmâvatî, Le testament de la tante Caroline
- Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (c. 1705–1755): Zaïde, reine de Grenade
- Anton Rubinstein (1829–1894): Christus, The Demon, Dmitry Donskoy, Feramors, Fomka the Fool, Die Kinder der Heide, Die Maccabäer, The Merchant Kalashnikov, Moses, Néron, Der Thurm zu Babel
- Poul Ruders (1949– ): The Handmaid's Tale
- John Rutter (1945– ): Bang!
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- Kaija Saariaho (1952– ): L'amour de loin, Adriana Mater, Émilie
- Antonio Sacchini (1730–1786): Armida, Arvire et Évélina, Calliroe, Chimène, La contadina in corte, Creso, Dardanus, Œdipe à Colone, Renaud
- Francesco Sacrati (1605–1650): La finta pazza
- Shigeaki Saegusa (1942– ):
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921): Ascanio, Déjanire, , Hélène, Henry VIII, Phryné, La princesse jaune, Samson et Dalila, Le timbre d'argent
- Theophrastos Sakellaridis (1883–1950): , ,
- Luis H. Salgado (1903–1977): , , , ,
- Antonio Salieri (1750–1825): Armida, Axur, re d'Ormus, La cifra, Les Danaïdes, Europa riconosciuta, Falstaff, La fiera di Venezia, La grotta di Trofonio, Les Horaces, Palmira, regina di Persia, Prima la musica e poi le parole, Der Rauchfangkehrer, La scuola de' gelosi, Tarare
- Aulis Sallinen (1935– ): The Red Line, The King Goes Forth to France, The Horseman, Kullervo, The Palace, King Lear
- Erkki Salmenhaara (1941–2002):
- Spyridon Samaras (1861–1917): Flora mirabilis, , , , , , Mademoiselle de Belle-Isle,
- Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700/1701–1775): Memet
- Sven-David Sandström (1942– ): Jeppe: The Cruel Comedy
- Domenico Sarro (1679–1744): Achille in Sciro, Didone abbandonata,
- Giuseppe Sarti (1729–1802): , Didone abbandonata, Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode, Le gelosie villane, Giulio Sabino, Medonte, re di Epiro
- Antonio Sartorio (1630–1680): Adelaide, , Orfeo
- Erik Satie (1866–1925): Geneviève de Brabant
- Henri Sauguet (1901–1989): Les caprices de Marianne, La chartreuse de Parme
- David Sawer (1961– ): From Morning to Midnight
- Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907–1991): Özsoy
- Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725): Griselda, Mitridate Eupatore, Tigrane, Il trionfo dell'onore, , Telemaco, Il Pirro e Demetrio
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757):
- Giuseppe Scarlatti (1718 or 18 June 1723–17 Aug 1777): L'isola disabitata
- Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (born 1971): Wut, ,
- Benedikt Schack (1758–1826): Der Stein der Weisen
- Pierre Schaeffer (1910–1995):
- R. Murray Schafer (1933– ): The Princess of the Stars
- Peter Schat (1935–2003): Labyrint, ,
- Johann Baptist Schenk (1753–1836):
- Friedrich Schenker (1942–2013): Bettina
- Peter Schickele (P. D. Q. Bach) (1935– ): The Abduction of Figaro
- Max von Schillings (1868–1933): Mona Lisa
- Ludwig Schmidseder (1904–1971): Melodie der Nacht, Die oder Keine, Frauen im Metropol,
- Franz Schmidt (1874–1939): Notre Dame
- Alfred Schnittke (1934–1998): Life with an Idiot, Historia von D. Johann Fausten,
- Othmar Schoeck (1886–1957): Massimilla Doni, Penthesilea, Das Schloss Dürande, Venus,
- Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951): Erwartung, Die glückliche Hand, Von heute auf morgen, Moses und Aron
- Franz Schreker (1878–1934): , Der ferne Klang, Die Gezeichneten, Irrelohe, Der Schatzgräber, Der Schmied von Gent, Der singende Teufel, Das Spielwerk
- Friedrich Schröder (1910–1972): Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies
- Franz Schubert (1797–1828): Alfonso und Estrella, Fierrabras, Die Verschworenen, Die Zwillingsbrüder
- Erwin Schulhoff (1894–1942): Flammen
- Gunther Schuller (1925– ): ,
- Andrew Schultz (1969– ): The Children's Bach
- Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (1747–1800):
- William Schuman (1910–1992): , A Question of Taste
- Robert Schumann (1810–1856): Genoveva
- Walter Schumann (1913–1958):
- Joseph Schuster (1748–1812):
- Heinrich Schütz (1585–1672):
- Anton Schweitzer (1735–1787): Alceste, , Rosamunde
- Laura Schwendinger (1962– ):
- Kurt Schwertsik (1935– ):
- Salvatore Sciarrino (1947– ): Da gelo a gelo, , Lohengrin, Luci mie traditrici, Macbeth,
- Antonio Scontrino (1850–1922): Matelda
- Cyril Scott (1879–1970):
- Peter Sculthorpe (1929–2014): Rites of Passage, Quiros
- Humphrey Searle (1915–1982): The Diary of a Madman
- Seedo (c. 1700–c. 1754): The Devil to Pay
- Alexander Serov (1820–1871): Judith, Rogneda, The Power of the Fiend
- José Serrano (1873–1941): La dolorosa,
- Paolo Serrao (1830–1907): , , , ,
- Roger Sessions (1896–1985): , Montezuma
- John Laurence Seymour (1893–1986):
- Rodion Shchedrin (1932– ): Dead Souls, Levsha, Lolita
- Bright Sheng (1955– ): , The Silver River
- William Shield (1748–1829): , Rosina
- Alice Shields (1943– ):
- Howard Shore (1946– ): The Fly
- Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975): The Gamblers (Igroki), Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Ledy Macbeth Mtsenskovo uyezda), Moscow, Cheryomushki, The Nose (Nos)
- Jean Sibelius (1865–1957): The Maiden in the Tower (Jungfrun i tornet), The Building of the Boat (Veneen luominen)
- Elie Siegmeister (1909–1991):
- Roberto Sierra (1953– ):
- Sheila Silver (1946– ):
- Christian Sinding (1856–1941):
- Larry Sitsky (1934– ): De Profundis, , Fiery Tales, The Golem, , Voices in Limbo
- František Škroup (1801–1862): Dráteník (The Tinker)
- Antonio Smareglia (1854–1929): Nozze istriane, La falena, Oceàna
- Bedřich Smetana (1824–1884): The Bartered Bride (Prodaná nevěsta), The Brandenburgers in Bohemia (Braniboři v Čechách), Dalibor, The Devil's Wall (Čertova stěna), The Kiss (Hubička), Libuše, The Secret (Tajemství), The Two Widows (Dvě vdovy), Viola
- Dmitri Smirnov (1948– ): Tiriel, Thel
- John Christopher Smith (1712–1795): , The Tempest
- Julia Smith (1911–1989):
- Martin Smolka (1959– ): ,
- Ethel Smyth (1858–1944): The Boatswain's Mate, Der Wald, The Wreckers
- Ragnar Søderlind (1945– ):
- Mikhail Sokolovsky (1756–1795):
- Juan María Solare (1966– ): Veinticinco de agosto, 1983
- Temistocle Solera (1815–1878): Il contadino d'Agleiate (rev. as La fanciulla di Castelguelfo), Genio e sventura, La hermana de palayo,
- Carlo Evasio Soliva (1791–1853):
- Edward Solomon (1855–1895): Billee Taylor, The Nautch Girl, Quite an Adventure, The Red Hussar, The Vicar of Bray
- Harry Somers (1925–1999): Louis Riel
- S. P. Somtow (Somtow Sucharitkul) (1952– ): , Ayodhya, Mae Naak,
- Stephen Sondheim (1930–2021): Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
- Fernando Sor (1778–1839): Telemaco nell'isola di Calipso
- Pablo Sorozábal (1897–1988): , La tabernera del puerto
- John Philip Sousa (1854–1932): Désirée, El Capitan
- Alexander Spendiaryan (1871–1928): Almast
- Niccola Spinelli (1865–1909): A basso porto
- Louis Spohr (1784–1859): Faust, Jessonda,
- Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851): Agnes von Hohenstaufen, , Fernand Cortez, Milton, Nurmahal, Olimpie, La vestale
- Lewis Spratlan (1940– ): Life Is a Dream
- Sigmund Theophil Staden (1607–1665): Seelewig
- Charles Villiers Stanford (1852–1924): , Much Ado About Nothing
- John Stanley (1712–1786):
- Robert Starer (1924–2001):
- Roman Statkowski (1859–1925): Maria,
- Agostino Steffani (1653–1728): Henrico Leone
- Walter Steffens (born 1934): Eli, Under Milk Wood/Unter dem Milchwald
- Daniel Steibelt (1765–1823):
- Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871–1927): Tirfing
- Rudi Stephan (1887–1915): Die ersten Menschen
- George Stephănescu (1843–1925):
- Roger Steptoe (1953– ):
- William Grant Still (1895–1978): Blue Steel, Troubled Island, A Bayou Legend
- Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007): Atmen gibt das Leben, Licht (Donnerstag, Freitag, Samstag, Sonntag, Montag, Dienstag, Mittwoch)
- Petar Stojanović (1877–1957): , , Der Tiger
- Robert Stolz (1880–1975): Der Tanz ins Glück,
- Stephen Storace (1763–1796): Dido, Queen of Carthage, Gli equivoci, The Haunted Tower, , , No song, no supper, The Pirates, The Siege of Belgrade, Gli sposi malcontenti
- Alessandro Stradella (1639–1682): Il Trespolo tutore
- Robert Strassburg (1915–2003): Chelm
- Oscar Straus (1870–1954): , The Chocolate Soldier (Der tapfere Soldat), , Ein Walzertraum, Der letzte Walzer
- Johann Strauss II (1825–1899): Blindekuh, Cagliostro in Wien, Die Fledermaus, Eine Nacht in Venedig, Indigo und die vierzig Räuber, Der Karneval in Rom, Der lustige Krieg, Prinz Methusalem, Ritter Pázmán, Simplicius, Das Spitzentuch der Königin, Waldmeister, Wiener Blut, Der Zigeunerbaron
- Richard Strauss (1864–1949): Die ägyptische Helena, Arabella, Ariadne auf Naxos, Capriccio, Daphne, Elektra, Feuersnot, Die Frau ohne Schatten, Friedenstag, Guntram, Intermezzo, Die Liebe der Danae, Der Rosenkavalier, Salome, Die schweigsame Frau
- Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971): The Flood, Histoire du soldat (Istoria Soldata), Mavra, The Nightingale (Solovei), Oedipus rex, Perséphone, The Rake's Progress, Renard (Bayka pro Lisu, Petukha, Kota da Barana)
- Heinrich Strecker (1893–1981): Ännchen von Tharau
- Eugen Suchoň (1908–1993): Krútňava, Svätopluk
- Arthur Sullivan (1842–1900): With W. S. Gilbert: The Gondoliers, The Grand Duke, H.M.S. Pinafore, Iolanthe, The Mikado, Patience, The Pirates of Penzance, Princess Ida, Ruddigore, The Sorcerer, Thespis, Trial by Jury, Utopia, Limited, The Yeomen of the Guard; With others: The Beauty Stone, The Chieftain, The Contrabandista, Cox and Box, The Emerald Isle (with Edward German), Haddon Hall, Ivanhoe, The Rose of Persia, The Zoo, (with Henry Fothergill Chorley), The Sapphire Necklace
- Franz von Suppé (1819–1895): , Boccaccio, Fatinitza, Leichte Kavallerie, Die schöne Galathee
- Conrad Susa (1935– ): The Dangerous Liaisons, Transformations
- Franz Xaver Süssmayr (1766–1803):
- Heinrich Sutermeister (1910–1995): Romeo und Julia,
- Margaret Sutherland (1897–1984): The Young Kabbarli
- Donald Swann (1923–1994):
- Giles Swayne (1946– ):
- Piet Swerts (1960– ): Ajas, Les Liaisons dangereuses
- Albert Szirmai (1880–1967): , , Princess Charming,
- Karol Szymanowski (1882–1937): Hagith, King Roger (Król Roger)
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- Germaine Tailleferre (1892–1983): Du style galant au style méchant, Il était un petit navire
- Otar Taktakishvili (1924–1989): Mindia
- Joby Talbot (1971– ): Everest
- Josef Tal (1910–2008): Saul at Ein Dor, Amnon and Tamar, Ashmedai, Massada 967, The Temptation (Die Versuchung), The Tower (Der Turm), The Garden (Der Garten), Josef
- Louise Talma (1906–1996): The Alcestiad
- Eino Tamberg (1930–2010): Cyrano de Bergerac
- David Tamkin (1906–1975): The Dybbuk
- Tan Dun (1957– ): The First Emperor, Marco Polo, Peony Pavilion, Tea: A Mirror of Soul
- Sergei Taneyev (1856–1915): Oresteia
- Angelo Tarchi (1760–1814): , , ,
- Mikael Tariverdiev (1931–1996): Graf Cagliostro
- Vladimir Tarnopolsky (1955– ):
- Phyllis Tate (1911–1987): The Lodger
- John Tavener (1944–2013):
- Deems Taylor (1885–1966): The King's Henchman, Peter Ibbetson
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893): Cherevichki, The Enchantress, Eugene Onegin, Iolanta, The Maid of Orleans (Orleanskaya deva), Mazeppa, The Oprichnik, The Queen of Spades (Pique Dame, Pikovaya dama), Undina, Vakula the Smith, The Voyevoda
- Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767): Orpheus, Pimpinone
- Oscar Ferdinand Telgmann (c. 1855–1946): Leo, the Royal Cadet
- Domènec Terradellas (1713–1751):
- Claude Terrasse (1867–1923): ,
- Flavio Testi (1923–2014): Saül,
- Johann Theile (1646–1724):
- Mikis Theodorakis (1925– ): , Medea, ,
- Ambroise Thomas (1811–1896): La cour de Célimène, Hamlet, Mignon
- Arthur Goring Thomas (1850–1892): Esmeralda
- Randall Thompson (1899–1984):
- Virgil Thomson (1896–1989): Four Saints in Three Acts, Lord Byron, The Mother of Us All
- Francis Thorne (1922– ):
- John Thow (1949–2007):
- Ludwig Thuille (1861–1907):
- Ivo Tijardović (1895–1976): Mala Floramye,
- Michael Tippett (1905–1998): The Ice Break, King Priam, The Knot Garden, The Midsummer Marriage, New Year, Robin Hood
- Camillo Togni (1922–1993):
- Henri Tomasi (1901–1971):
- Michael Torke (1961– ):
- Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco (1644–1728): La púrpura de la rosa
- Charles Tournemire (1870–1939): , , , ,
- Geoffrey Toye (1889–1942): The Red Pen
- Antonio Tozzi (1736–1812):
- Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779): Antigona, , Ifigenia in Tauride, Ippolito ed Aricia, Le serve rivali, ,
- Cornel Trăilescu (1926– ):
- Eduard Tubin (1905–1982):
- Joaquín Turina (1882–1949): Margot, Jardín de oriente
- Mark-Anthony Turnage (1960– ): Anna Nicole, Greek, The Silver Tassie, Twice Through the Heart
- Erkki-Sven Tüür (1959– ): Wallenberg
- Geirr Tveitt (1908–1981): Dragaredokko
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- Marco Uccellini (1603–1680): Li Eventi di Filandro Et Edessa
- Martin Andreas Udbye (1820–1889):
- Alfred Uhl (1909–1992):
- Viktor Ullmann (1898–1944): Der Kaiser von Atlantis
- José María Usandizaga (1887–1915): , La llama, Mendi Mendiyan
- Francesco Uttini (1723–1795): ,
V[]
- Nicola Vaccai (1790–1848): Giulietta e Romeo
- Fabio Vacchi (1949– ):
- Vincenzo Valente (1855–1921): I granatieri
- Giuseppe Valentini (1681–1753):
- Jean Vallerand (1915–1944):
- Louis Varney (1844–1908): , Les mousquetaires au couvent,
- Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958): Hugh the Drover, Sir John in Love, The Pilgrim's Progress, The Poisoned Kiss, Riders to the Sea
- Orazio Vecchi (1550–1605): L'Amfiparnaso
- Alexander Veprik (1899–1958): ,
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901): Aida, Alzira, Aroldo, Attila, Un ballo in maschera, La battaglia di Legnano, Il corsaro, Don Carlos, I due Foscari, Ernani, Falstaff, La forza del destino, Un giorno di regno, Giovanna d'Arco, Jérusalem, I Lombardi alla prima crociata, I masnadieri, Luisa Miller, Macbeth, Nabucco, Oberto, Otello, Rigoletto, Simon Boccanegra, Stiffelio, La traviata, Il trovatore, Les vêpres siciliennes
- Alexey Verstovsky (1799–1862): Askold's Grave (Askol'dova mogila)
- Pauline Viardot (1821–1910): Cendrillon
- Gerard Victory (1921–1995): ,
- Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959): , Yerma
- Leonardo Vinci (c. 1696–1730): Artaserse, Didone abbandonata, Li zite 'ngalera
- Franco Vittadini (1884–1948): , , , ,
- Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741): Ottone in villa, Orlando finto pazzo, Nerone fatto Cesare, Arsilda, regina di Ponto, La costanza trionfante, L'incoronazione di Dario, L'Olimpiade, Tieteberga, Armida al campo d'Egitto, Scanderbeg, Teuzzone, Tito Manlio, La verità in cimento, Ercole su'l Termodonte, Farnace, Orlando furioso, Argippo, Motezuma, Bajazet, Griselda, Dorilla in Tempe, La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii
- Amadeo Vives (1871–1932): Doña Francisquita
- Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638–1693):
- Claude Vivier (1948–1983):
- Roman Vlad (1919–2013):
- Georg Joseph Vogler (1749–1814): Castore e Polluce, ,
- Hans Vogt (1911–1992): Die Stadt hinter dem Strom
- Andy Vores (1956– ): Freshwater, No Exit
- Alexander Vustin (1943– ): The Devil in Love
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- Ignatz Waghalter (1881–1949): , , , ,
- Richard Wagner (1813–1883): Die Feen, Der fliegende Holländer, Die Hochzeit, Das Liebesverbot, Lohengrin, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Parsifal, Rienzi, Der Ring des Nibelungen (Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, Götterdämmerung), Tannhäuser, Tristan und Isolde
- Siegfried Wagner (1869–1930): Der Bärenhäuter
- Rudolf Wagner-Régeny (1903–1969): , , , Prometheus
- Julian Wagstaff (1970– ): The Turing Test (opera),
- Rufus Wainwright (1973– ): Prima Donna, Hadrian
- Igor Wakhévitch (1948– ): Être Dieu
- Stewart Wallace (1960– ): The Bonesetter's Daughter
- William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865): The Amber Witch, Lurline, Maritana, The Desert Flower
- Joelle Wallach (1946– ):
- Hermann Wolfgang von Waltershausen (1882–1954): , Oberst Chabert, Richardis, ,
- William Walton (1902–1983): The Bear, Troilus and Cressida
- Robert Ward (1917–2013): The Crucible
- Roger Waters (1943– ): Ça Ira (opera)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786–1826): Abu Hassan, Die drei Pintos, Der Freischütz, Euryanthe, Oberon, Peter Schmoll und seine Nachbarn, Silvana
- Joseph Weigl (1766–1846): Die Schweizer Familie
- Kurt Weill (1900–1950): Die Bürgschaft, Down in the Valley, The Eternal Road (Der Weg der Verheissung), The Firebrand of Florence, Happy End, Der Jasager, Johnny Johnson, Knickerbocker Holiday, Der Kuhhandel (A Kingdom for a Cow, or Arms and the Cow), Lady in the Dark, Lost in the Stars, Love Life, One Touch of Venus, Der Protagonist, Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny), , The Seven Deadly Sins (Die sieben Todesünden), Der Silbersee, Street Scene, The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper), Der Zar lässt sich photographieren, The Flight across the Ocean
- Mieczysław Weinberg (1919–1996): The Portrait
- Jaromír Weinberger (1896–1967): Schwanda the Bagpiper, Milovaný hlas (The Beloved Voice), Lidé z Pokerflatu (The Outcasts of Poker Flat), Jarní bouře (Spring Storms), Na růžích ustláno (A Bed of Roses), Apropó, co dělá Andula? (By the Way, What Is Andula Doing?), Císař pán na třešních (The Emperor Lord of Cherries), Valdštejn (Wallenstein)
- Felix Weingartner (1863–1942): , , Sakuntala
- Judith Weir (1954– ): Blond Eckbert, , King Harald's Saga, A Night at the Chinese Opera, The Vanishing Bridegroom, Armida
- Hugo Weisgall (1912–1997): Esther, Nine Rivers from Jordan, Six Characters in Search of an Author, The Stronger, The Tenor, Will You Marry Me?
- Dan Welcher (1948– ):
- John Weldon (1676–1736): The Judgement of Paris
- Egon Wellesz (1885–1974): Die Prinzessin Girnara, Die Bakchantinnen
- Felix Werder (1922–2012): Agamemnon
- Peter Westergaard (1931–2019): ,
- Gillian Whitehead (1941– ):
- Jörg Widmann (1973– ): Das Gesicht im Spiegel, Babylon
- Charles-Marie Widor (1844–1937):
- Alec Wilder (1907–1980): , ,
- Healey Willan (1880–1968):
- Grace Williams (1906–1977): The Parlour
- Malcolm Williamson (1931–2003): English Eccentrics, , , , Our Man in Havana, , The Violins of Saint-Jacques
- Charles Wilson (1931– ): ,
- James Wilson (1922–2005): ,
- Thomas Wilson (1927–2001): ,
- Herbert Windt (1894–1965):
- Peter Winter (1754–1825): , , Das Labyrinth, , Das unterbrochene Opferfest
- Peter Wishart (1921–1984): ,
- Erling Wold (1958– ):
- Hugo Wolf (1860–1903): Der Corregidor
- Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876–1948): Il campiello, Le donne curiose, I gioielli della Madonna, I quatro rusteghi, Il segreto di Susanna, Sly
- Albert Wolff (1884–1970): L'oiseau bleu
- Stefan Wolpe (1902–1972): ,
- Paul Wranitzky (1756–1808):
- Charles Wuorinen (1938–2020): Brokeback Mountain, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
X[]
- Spyridon Xyndas (1812/1814–1896): , (The parliamentary candidate), ,
Y[]
- Kosaku Yamada (1886–1965): Kurofune (The Black Ships)
- Christopher Yavelow (1950– ): The Passion of Vincent van Gogh,
- Eugène Ysaÿe (1858–1931):
- Sergei Yuferov (1865–?): (Мирра), (Иоланда), (Антоний и Клеопатра)
- Isang Yun (1917–1995):
Z[]
- Ivan Zajc (1832–1914): Nikola Šubić Zrinjski
- Riccardo Zandonai (1883–1944): I cavalieri di Ekebù, Conchita, Francesca da Rimini, , La farsa amorosa
- Carl Zeller (1842–1898): Der Obersteiger, Der Vogelhändler
- Alexander von Zemlinsky (1871–1942): Es war einmal, Eine florentinische Tragödie, Der König Kandaules, Der Kreidekreis, , Der Traumgörge, Der Zwerg
- Hans Zender (1936– ): Stephen Climax,
- Otakar Zich (1879–1934):
- Karl Michael Ziehrer (1843–1922): , König Jérôme, Die Landstreicher
- Winfried Zillig (1905–1963):
- Bernd Alois Zimmermann (1918–1970): Die Soldaten
- Udo Zimmermann (1943–2021): , Der Schuhu und die fliegende Prinzessin, Weiße Rose,
- Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli (1752–1837): Giulietta e Romeo, ,
- Heinrich Zöllner (1854–1941): (The Sunken Bell)
- Manuel de Zumaya (1678–1755): Partenope
- Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg (1760–1802): Das Pfauenfest
See also[]
- List of important operas
- List of operas by title
Categories:
- Lists of operas by composer
- Operas