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100 Greatest Operas
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Operas are ranked for their innovation and influence, as well as
their aesthetic importance, historical significance and lasting popularity.
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Edited By: Guy/Brian
Last Updated 02-24-06
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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. Cavalleria Rusticana – Pietro Mascagni
21. Il Trovatore – Giuseppe Verdi
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. Porgy & Bess – George Gershwin
31. Lucia Di Lammermoor – Gaetano Donizetti
32. Les Troyens – Hector Berlioz
33. Elektra – Richard Strauss
34. Cosi Fan Tutte – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
35. Fidelio – Ludwig Van Beethoven
36. Eugene Onegin – Peter Illitch Tchaikovsky
37. La Gioconda – Amiliare Ponchielli
38. Wozzeck – Alban Berg
39. Incoronazione di Poppea – Claudio Monteverdi
40. Salome – Richard Strauss
41. Dido and Aneas – Henry Purcell
42. The Cunning Little Vixen – Leos Janacek
43. Orpheus and Eurydice – Christoph Willibald Gluck
44. Don Carlos – Giuseppe Verdi
45. Orfeo – Claudio Monteverdi
46. Der Freischutz – Carl Maria von Weber
47. Samson and Delilah – Camille Saint-Saens
48. Tales of Hoffman – Jacques Offenbach
49. Hansel and Gretel – Engelbert Humperdink
50. The Flying Dutchman – Richard Wagner
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. The Girl of the Golden West – Giacomo Puccini
66. La Sonnambula – Vincenzo Bellini
67. Turn of the Screw – Benjamin Britten
68. Duke Bluebeard's Castle – Bela Bartok
69. William Tell – Gioacchino Rossini
70. The Masked Ball – Giuseppe Verdi
71. Julius Caesar – Georg Friedrich Handel
72. La Serva Padrona – Giovanni Pergolesi
73. Die Tote Stadt – Erich Wolfgang Korngold
74. Louise – Gustave Charpentier
75. Mefistofele – Arrigo Boito
76. I Puritani – Vincenzo Bellini
77. Semiramide – Gioacchino Rossini
78. L'Africaine – Giacomo Meyerbeer
79. Castor et Pollux – Jean-Philippe Rameau
80. La Cenerentola – Gioacchino Rossini
81. Pique Dame – Peter Illitch Tchaikovsky
82. Billy Budd – Benjamin Britten
83. La Fille du Regiment – Gaetano Donizetti
84. Le Prophete – Giacomo Meyerbeer
85. Le Coq D'or – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff
86. McBeth – Giuseppe Verdi
87. Les Pecheurs des Perles – Georges Bizet
88. The Pilgrim's Progress – Ralph Vaughan Williams
89. Ernani – Giuseppe Verdi
90. Gianni Schicchi – Giacomo Puccini
91. Beatrice et Benedict – Hector Berlioz
92. Simon Boccanegra – Giuseppe Verdi
93. Prince Igor – Alexander Borodin
94. Nabucco – Giuseppe Verdi
95. The Abduction from the Seraglio – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
96. Euryanthe – Carl Maria von Weber
97. Dialogues des Carmelites – Frances Poulenc
98. Atys – Jean-Baptiste Lully
99. Thais – Jules Massenet
100. Martha – Friederich von Flotow
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1. Richard Wagner
2. Giuseppe Verdi
3. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
4. Giacomo Puccini
5. Richard Strauss
6. Gioacchino Rossini
7. Gaetano Donizetti
8. Vincenzo Bellini
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9. Benjamin Britten
10. Charles Gounod
11. Georges Bizet
12. Jules Massenet
13. Giacomo Meyerbeer
14. Claudio Monteverdi
15. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
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Disclaimer: There is nothing 'Official' about these lists. They are compiled by the 'editor' using the
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