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🎶 100 Iconic Operas: A Melodic Journey Through Time 🎭

🎉 Get ready to embark on an exhilarating journey through the world of opera! 🌟 Our list features 100 timeless masterpieces that span centuries of musical genius and dramatic storytelling. From the passionate arias of Italian classics to the soaring melodies of German epics, each opera on this list is a gem waiting to be discovered! 💃 So grab your opera glasses and get ready to be swept away by the magic of these enchanting musical adventures! 🎵🎭

  1. Carmen – Georges Bizet (1875, France)
  2. La Traviata – Giuseppe Verdi (1853, Italy)
  3. The Marriage of Figaro – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1786, Austria)
  4. The Magic Flute – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791, Austria)
  5. Madama Butterfly – Giacomo Puccini (1904, Italy)
  6. Don Giovanni – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1787, Austria)
  7. Tosca – Giacomo Puccini (1900, Italy)
  8. Aida – Giuseppe Verdi (1871, Italy)
  9. Rigoletto – Giuseppe Verdi (1851, Italy)
  10. La Bohème – Giacomo Puccini (1896, Italy)
  11. Turandot – Giacomo Puccini (1926, Italy)
  12. The Barber of Seville – Gioachino Rossini (1816, Italy)
  13. The Elixir of Love – Gaetano Donizetti (1832, Italy)
  14. Cavalleria Rusticana – Pietro Mascagni (1890, Italy)
  15. Pagliacci – Ruggero Leoncavallo (1892, Italy)
  16. Norma – Vincenzo Bellini (1831, Italy)
  17. Tannhäuser – Richard Wagner (1845, Germany)
  18. The Tales of Hoffmann – Jacques Offenbach (1881, France)
  19. Der Rosenkavalier – Richard Strauss (1911, Germany)
  20. The Merry Widow – Franz Lehár (1905, Austria-Hungary)
  21. Cosi Fan Tutte – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1790, Austria)
  22. Porgy and Bess – George Gershwin (1935, United States)
  23. Orpheus and Eurydice – Christoph Willibald Gluck (1762, Germany)
  24. Eugene Onegin – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1879, Russia)
  25. The Flying Dutchman – Richard Wagner (1843, Germany)
  26. Werther – Jules Massenet (1892, France)
  27. Manon Lescaut – Giacomo Puccini (1893, Italy)
  28. Il Trovatore – Giuseppe Verdi (1853, Italy)
  29. Der Freischütz – Carl Maria von Weber (1821, Germany)
  30. Falstaff – Giuseppe Verdi (1893, Italy)
  31. Les Misérables – Claude-Michel Schönberg (1980, France)
  32. La sonnambula – Vincenzo Bellini (1831, Italy)
  33. Die Walküre – Richard Wagner (1870, Germany)
  34. Eugene Onegin – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1879, Russia)
  35. La Clemenza di Tito – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791, Austria)
  36. The Threepenny Opera – Kurt Weill (1928, Germany)
  37. Boris Godunov – Modest Mussorgsky (1869, Russia)
  38. Candide – Leonard Bernstein (1956, United States)
  39. Ariadne auf Naxos – Richard Strauss (1916, Germany)
  40. Dido and Aeneas – Henry Purcell (1689, England)
  41. Wozzeck – Alban Berg (1925, Austria)
  42. The Queen of Spades – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1890, Russia)
  43. The Turn of the Screw – Benjamin Britten (1954, United Kingdom)
  44. The Love for Three Oranges – Sergei Prokofiev (1921, Russia)
  45. L’Italiana in Algeri – Gioachino Rossini (1813, Italy)
  46. L’elisir d’amore – Gaetano Donizetti (1832, Italy)
  47. Adriana Lecouvreur – Francesco Cilea (1902, Italy)
  48. Die Fledermaus – Johann Strauss II (1874, Austria)
  49. Lucia di Lammermoor – Gaetano Donizetti (1835, Italy)
  50. Rusalka – Antonín Dvořák (1901, Czechoslovakia)
  51. La Gazza Ladra – Gioachino Rossini (1817, Italy)
  52. Otello – Giuseppe Verdi (1887, Italy)
  53. Semiramide – Gioachino Rossini (1823, Italy)
  54. Lohengrin – Richard Wagner (1850, Germany)
  55. Falstaff – Giuseppe Verdi (1893, Italy)
  56. La fanciulla del West – Giacomo Puccini (1910, Italy)
  57. Le nozze di Figaro – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1786, Austria)
  58. La Gioconda – Amilcare Ponchielli (1876, Italy)
  59. Iphigénie en Tauride – Christoph Willibald Gluck (1779, Germany)
  60. La Juive – Fromental Halévy (1835, France)
  61. Rinaldo – George Frideric Handel (1711, Germany)
  62. Fidelio – Ludwig van Beethoven (1805, Germany)
  63. Béatrice et Bénédict – Hector Berlioz (1862, France)
  64. Khovanshchina – Modest Mussorgsky (1886, Russia)
  65. Pelléas et Mélisande – Claude Debussy (1902, France)
  66. Andrea Chénier – Umberto Giordano (1896, Italy)
  67. Ernani – Giuseppe Verdi (1844, Italy)
  68. Idomeneo – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1781, Austria)
  69. Guillaume Tell – Gioachino Rossini (1829, Italy)
  70. Lucrezia Borgia – Gaetano Donizetti (1833, Italy)
  71. Les Huguenots – Giacomo Meyerbeer (1836, Germany)
  72. L’Africaine – Giacomo Meyerbeer (1865, Germany)
  73. Don Carlos – Giuseppe Verdi (1867, Italy)
  74. La forza del destino – Giuseppe Verdi (1862, Italy)
  75. Les Troyens – Hector Berlioz (1863, France)
  76. Ariane et Barbe-Bleue – Paul Dukas (1907, France)
  77. Siegfried – Richard Wagner (1876, Germany)
  78. Cosi Fan Tutte – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1790, Austria)
  79. I Capuleti e i Montecchi – Vincenzo Bellini (1830, Italy)
  80. Luisa Miller – Giuseppe Verdi (1849, Italy)
  81. La sonnambula – Vincenzo Bellini (1831, Italy)
  82. Der fliegende Holländer – Richard Wagner (1843, Germany)
  83. Ariadne auf Naxos – Richard Strauss (1912, Germany)
  84. Ruslan and Ludmila – Mikhail Glinka (1842, Russia)
  85. La Cenerentola – Gioachino Rossini (1817, Italy)
  86. Die Zauberflöte – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1791, Austria)
  87. L’heure espagnole – Maurice Ravel (1911, France)
  88. Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria – Claudio Monteverdi (1640, Italy)
  89. Die tote Stadt – Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1920, Austria)
  90. Simon Boccanegra – Giuseppe Verdi (1857, Italy)
  91. Don Pasquale – Gaetano Donizetti (1843, Italy)
  92. La Rondine – Giacomo Puccini (1917, Italy)
  93. Der Freischütz – Carl Maria von Weber (1821, Germany)
  94. Il barbiere di Siviglia – Gioachino Rossini (1816, Italy)
  95. Gianni Schicchi – Giacomo Puccini (1918, Italy)
  96. A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Benjamin Britten (1960, United Kingdom)
  97. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – Richard Wagner (1868, Germany)
  98. The Threepenny Opera – Kurt Weill (1928, Germany)
  99. Giulio Cesare in Egitto – George Frideric Handel (1724, Germany)
  100. Il Pirata – Vincenzo Bellini (1827, Italy)

These operas represent a diverse array of cultural and artistic traditions, captivating audiences around the world with their compelling music, drama, and emotion.