100 Greatest Operas

1. Der Ring des Nibelungen
• Richard Wagner

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2. Tristan Und Isolde
• Richard Wagner

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3. Don Giovanni
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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4. Otello
• Giuseppe Verdi

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5. The Marriage of Figaro
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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6. Aida
• Giuseppe Verdi

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7. La Boheme
• Giacomo Puccini

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8. Madame Butterfly
• Giacomo Puccini

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9. Der Rosenkavalier
• Richard Strauss

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10. Parsifal
• Richard Wagner

11. Boris Godunov
• Modest Mussorgsky

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12. La Traviata
• Giuseppe Verdi

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13. Carmen
• Georges Bizet

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14. Die Meistersinger
• Richard Wagner

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15. The Magic Flute
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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16. Tosca
• Giacomo Puccini

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17. Falstaff
• Giuseppe Verdi

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18. Rigoletto
• Giuseppe Verdi

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19. The Barber Of Seville
• Gioacchino Rossini

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20. Il Trovatore
• Giuseppe Verdi

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21. Cavalleria Rusticana
• Pietro Mascagni

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22. Turandot
• Giacomo Puccini

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23. Faust
• Charles Gounod

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24. Lohengrin
• Richard Wagner

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25. Peter Grimes
• Benjamin Britten

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26. Norma
• Vincenzo Bellini

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27. Tannhauser
• Richard Wagner

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28. I Pagliacci
• Rugierro Leoncavallo

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29. Pelleas and Mellisande
• Claude Debussy

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30. Lucia Di Lammermoor
• Gaetano Donizetti

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31. Les Troyens
• Hector Berlioz

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33. Elektra
• Richard Strauss

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32. Cosi Fan Tutte
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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33. Porgy & Bess
• George Gershwin

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35. Fidelio
• Ludwig Van Beethoven

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36. Eugene Onegin
• Peter Illitch Tchaikovsky

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37. Wozzeck
• Alban Berg

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38. Incoronazione di Poppea
• Claudio Monteverdi

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49. Dido and Aneas
• Henry Purcell

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40. Orpheus and Eurydice
• Christoph Willibald Gluck

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41. Salome
• Richard Strauss

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42. Der Freischutz
• Carl Maria von Weber

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43. Don Carlos
• Giuseppe Verdi

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44. Orfeo
• Claudio Monteverdi

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45. The Cunning Little Vixen
• Leos Janacek

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46. Tales of Hoffman
• Jacques Offenbach

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47. Samson and Delilah
• Camille Saint-Saens

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48. The Flying Dutchman
• Richard Wagner

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49. Hansel and Gretel
• Engelbert Humperdink

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50. La Gioconda
• Amiliare Ponchielli

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51. The Rake's Progress
• Igor Stravinsky

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52. Manon
• Jules Massenet

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53. The Bartered Bride
• Bedrich Smetana

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54. The Huguenots
• Giacomo Meyerbeer

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55. La Forza Del Destino
• Giuseppe Verdi

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56. Manon Lescaut
• Giacomo Puccini

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57. Ariadne auf Naxos
• Richard Strauss

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58. Romeo and Juliet
• Charles Gounod

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59. L'Elisir D'Amore
• Gaetano Donizetti

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60. Lakme
• Leo Delibes

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61. Andre Chenier
• Umberto Giordano

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62. Werther
• Jules Massenet

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63. Don Pasquale
• Gaetano Donizetti

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64. Jenufa
• Leos Janacek

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65. Julius Caesar
• Georg Friedrich Handel

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66. Turn of the Screw
• Benjamin Britten

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67. La Sonnambula
• Vincenzo Bellini

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68. Duke Bluebeard's Castle
• Bela Bartok

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69. Iphigénie en Tauride
• Christoph Willibald Gluck

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70. Louise
• Gustave Charpentier

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71. La Cenerentola
• Gioacchino Rossini

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72. Billy Budd
• Benjamin Britten

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73. La Serva Padrona
• Giovanni Pergolesi

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74. Semiramide
• Gioacchino Rossini

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75. Doktor Faust
• Ferruccio Busoni

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76. The Threepenny Opera
• Kurt Weill

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77. Pique Dame
• Peter Illitch Tchaikovsky

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78. A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Benjamin Britten

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79. Khovanshina
• Modest Mussorgsky

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80. Alceste
• Christoph Willibald Gluck

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81. I Puritani
• Vincenzo Bellini

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82. Castor et Pollux
• Jean-Philippe Rameau

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83. The Masked Ball
• Giuseppe Verdi

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84. Moses und Aron
• Arnold Schoenberg

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85. McBeth
• Giuseppe Verdi

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86. Le Coq D'or
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff

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87. L'Enfant et les Sortiges
• Maurice Ravel

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88. Kat'a Kabanova
• Leos Janacek

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89. The Abduction from the Seraglio
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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90. Idomeneo
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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91. Dialogues des Carmelites
• Frances Poulenc

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92. Les Pecheurs des Perles
• Georges Bizet

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93. Einstein on the Beach
• Philip Glass

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94. Simon Boccanegra
• Giuseppe Verdi

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95. Gianni Schicchi
• Giacomo Puccini

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96. La Fille du Regiment
• Gaetano Donizetti

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97. William Tell
• Gioacchino Rossini

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98. L'Africaine
• Giacomo Meyerbeer

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99. Le Prophete
• Giacomo Meyerbeer

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100. Ernani
• Giuseppe Verdi

101. Alcina
• Georg Friedrich Handel

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102. Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District
• Dmitri Shostakovich

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103. Nabucco
• Giuseppe Verdi

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104. Prince Igor
• Alexander Borodin

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105. Xerxes
• Georg Friedrich Handel

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106. Rusalka
• Antonin Dvorak

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107. Die Frau ohne Schatten
• Richard Strauss

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108. War and Peace
• Sergei Prokofiev

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109. Ruslan and Ludmila
• Mikhail Glinka

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110. Amahl and the Night Visitors
• Gian Carlo Menotti

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111. Mefistofele
• Arrigo Boito

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112. The Girl of the Golden West
• Giacomo Puccini

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113. Il Matrimonio Segreto
• Domenico Cimarosa

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114. Die Tote Stadt
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold

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115. Nixon in China
• John Adams

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116. L'Italiana in Alegri
• Gioacchino Rossini

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117. Atys
• Jean-Baptiste Lully

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118. Four Saints in Three Acts
• Virgil Thomson

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119. Fra Diavolo
• Daniel-Francois Auber

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120. Medee
• Luigi Cherubini

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121. Beatrice et Benedict
• Hector Berlioz

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122. Palestrina
• Hans Pfitzner

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123. Adriana Lecouvreur
• Francesco Cilea

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124. Die Lustigen Weiber von Windsor
• Otto Nicolai

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125. Martha
• Friedrich von Flotow