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A listing of famous composers of opera and their major works |
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| Composer Name | ||||||
| Jacopo Peri | 1561 Rome | 1633 Florence | Dafne | Euridice | ||
| Claudio Monteverdi | 1567 Lombardy | 1643 Venice | Orfeo | Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria | L'incoronazione di Poppea | |
| Francesco Cavalli | 1602 Crema, Lombardy | 1676 Venice | Giasone | |||
| Jean-Baptiste Lully | 1632 Florence | 1687 probably France | Cadmus et Hermione | |||
| Henry Purcell | 1659 London | 1695 London | Dido and Aeneas | |||
| Alessandro Scarlatti | 1660 Palermo | 1725 Naples | La Griselda | |||
| Jean-Philippe Rameau | 1683 Dijon | 1764 Paris | ||||
| Johann Christoph Pepusch | 1667 Berlin | 1667 London | The Beggar's Opera | |||
| George Frideric Handel | 1685 Duchy of Magdeburg | 1759 London | ||||
| Giovanni Battista Pergolesi | 1710 Province of Ancona | 1736 Naples | La Serva Padrona. | |||
| Christoph Willibald Gluck | 1714 Bavaria | 1787 Vienna | Orfeo ed Euridice | |||
| Domenico Cimarosa | 1749 Italy | 1801 Naples | Il Matrimonio Segreto, | |||
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756 Salzburg | 1791 Venice | Così Fan Tutte | Don Giovanni | The Marriage of Figaro | |
| Luigi Cherubini | 1760 Florence | 1842 Paris | Médée. | |||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | 1770 Bonn | 1827 Vienna | Fidelio | |||
| Gaspare Spontini | 1774 Province of Ancona | 1851 Italy | La vestale | |||
| Daniel-François-Esprit Auber | 1782 Normandy. | 1871 Paris | Fra Diavolo | Le Domino Noir | La Muette de Portici | |
| Carl Maria von Weber | 1786 Northern Germany | 1826 London | Der Freischütz | |||
| Giacomo Meyerbeer | 1791 Berlin | 1864 Paris | Les Huguenots | Le Prophète | ||
| Gioachino Rossini | 1792 Italy | 1868 Paris | Barber of Seville | Semiramide | Ermione | Guillaume Tell |
| Gaetano Donizetti | 1797 Lombardy | 1848 Paris | Lucia di Lammermoor | |||
| Jacques Fromental Halévy | 1799 Paris | 1862 Nice | La Juive | |||
| Vincenzo Bellini | 1801 Catania | 1835 Paris | Norma | I Puritani, | ||
| Hector Berlioz | 1803 France | 1869 Paris | Les Troyens | Benvenuto Cellini, | Béatrice et Bénédict | La Damnation de Faust |
| Mikhail Glinka | 1804 Russian Empire | 1857 Berlin | A Life for the Tsar | Ruslan and Lyudmila | ||
| Ambroise Thomas | 1811 Metz | 1896 Paris | Mignon and Hamlet | |||
| Richard Wagner | 1813 Leipzig | 1883 Venice | Tristan und Isolde | Parsifal | Der Ring des Nibelungen, | |
| Giuseppe Verdi | 1813 First French Empire | 1901 Milan | Rigoletto | Aida | La Traviata | Don Carlos |
| Charles Gounod | 1818 Paris | 1893 France | Roméo et Juliette | Mireille. | ||
| Jacques Offenbach | 1819 Cologne | 1880 Paris | La vie Parisienne | Orpheus in the Underworld | ||
| Bedřich Smetana | 1824 Prague | 1884 Prague | Dalibor | The Bartered Bride | ||
| Aleksandr Borodin | 1833 Saint Petersburg | 1887 Saint Petersburg | Prince Igor | |||
| Camille Saint-Saëns | 1835 Paris | 1921 Algiers | Samson et Delila | |||
| Léo Delibes | 1836 France | 1891 Paris | Lakmé | |||
| Georges Bizet | 1838 Paris | 1875 Paris | Carmen | |||
| Modest Mussorgsky | 1839 Russian Empire | 1881 Saint Petersburg | Boris Godunov | |||
| Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1840 Russian Empire | 1893 Saint Petersburg | Eugene Onegin | The Queen of Spades | ||
| Emmanuel Chabrier | 1841 Auvergne | 1894 Paris | L'étoile | Le Roi Malgré Lui | ||
| Antonín Dvořák | 1841 Czech Republic | 1904 Prague | Rusalka | |||
| Jules Massenet | 1842 Lyon | 1912 Paris | Belle Époque | |||
| Arthur Sullivan | 1842 London | 1900 London | H.M.S. Pinafore | The Pirates of Penzance | The Mikado | |
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | 1844 Saint Petersburg | 1908 Russia | Scheherazade | Sadko | ||
| Leoš Janáček | 1854 Austrian Empire | 1928 Czech Republic | Jenůfa | |||
| Ruggiero Leoncavallo | 1857 Naples | 1919 Tuscany | Cavalleria Rusticana | |||
| Giacomo Puccini | 1858 Tuscany | 1924 Brussels | Tosca | La Bohème | Madama Butterfly | |
| Dame Ethel Smyth | 1858 London | 1944 Surrey | Suffragettes | The Wreckers | ||
| Gustave Charpentier | 1860 Lille | 1956 probably France | Louise | |||
| Claude Debussy | 1862 France | 1918 Paris | Pelléas et Mélisande | |||
| Pietro Mascagni | 1863 Tuscany | 1945 Rome | Cavalleria Rusticana | |||
| Richard Strauss | 1864 Munich | 1949 Germany | Salome | Elektra | Der Rosenkavalier | |
| Hans Pfitzner | 1869 Moscow | 1949 probably Russia | Palestrina | |||
| Arnold Schoenberg | 1874 Vienna | 1951 USA | Erwartung | Moses und Aron | ||
| Maurice Ravel | 1875 France | 1937 France | L'Enfant et les Sortilèges | L'heure Espagnole | ||
| Franz Schreker | 1878 Monaco | 1934 Berlin | Der Ferne Klang | Die Gezeichneten | ||
| Igor Stravinsky | 1882 Saint Petersburg | 1971 New York | The Rake's Progress | |||
| Alban Berg | 1885 Vienna | 1935 Vienna | Wozzeck | Lulu | ||
| Béla Bartók | 1881 Hungary, | 1945 New York | Duke Bluebeard's Castle | |||
| Sergei Prokofiev | 1891 Ukraine | 1953 Moscow | The Love for Three Oranges | The Fiery Angel | War and Peace | |
| Paul Hindemith | 1895 Germany | 1963 Frankfurt | Mathis der Maler | |||
| George Gershwin | 1898 Brooklyn | 1937 Beverly Hills | Porgy and Bess | Blue Monday | ||
| William Walton | 1902 Lancashire | 1983 Naples | Troilus and Cressida | |||
| Michael Tippett | 1905 UK | 1998 London | The Midsummer Marriage | The Knot Garden | ||
| Dmitri Shostakovich | 1906 Saint Petersburg | 1975 Moscow | Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District | Katerina Ismailova | ||
| Samuel Barber | 1910 Pennsylvania | 1981 New York City | Vanessa | Antony and Cleopatra | ||
| Gian Carlo Menotti | 1911 Italy | 2007 Monaco | Amahl and the Night Visitors | The Old Maid and the Thief | ||
| Benjamin Britten | 1913 Suffolk | 1976 UK | Peter Grimes | A Midsummer Night's Dream | The Turn of the Screw.[ | |
| Hans Werner Henze | 1926 Germany | 2012 Germany | The Bassarids | Elegy for Young Lovers | ||
| Peter Maxwell Davies | 1934 Lancashire | 2016 Orkney | Taverner | The Martyrdom of Saint Magnus | ||
| Philip Glass | 1934 UK | Einstein on the Beach | Akhnaten | The Voyage | ||
| John Adams | 1947 UK | Nixon in China | The Death of Klinghoffer | |||
| Judith Weir | 1954 England | A Night at the Chinese Opera | The Vanishing Bridegroom | |||
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