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This chart lists the Top 50 operas, based on UK and US performances and CD sales.
If you would prefer to review our main classical music charts click on
the flags or links below:
- UK Classical
Top 100
- USA
Classical Top 100
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The opera chart
now includes operettas, as the distinctions between the forms are
eminently arguable.
Oratorios, however, are incorporated in the main classical charts as
they are a rather more obviously different form. (No staging, no acting
usually gives the game away.)
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Composer
Bios
Albeniz
Albinoni
Allegri
Arnold
Bach, J S
Barber
Bartok
Beethoven
Berlioz
Bizet
Brahms
Britten
Bruch
Bruckner
Chopin
Copland
Debussy
Delius
Dvorak
Elgar
Gershwin
Gibbons
Grieg
Handel
Haydn
Holst
Janacek
Liszt
Mahler
Mendelssohn
Messiaen
Monteverdi
Mozart
Offenbach
Part
Poulenc
Prokofiev
Puccini
Purcell
Rachmaninov
Ravel
Rossini
Saint-Saens
Scarlatti
Schubert
Schumann
Shostakovich
Sibelius
Strauss, Johann
Strauss, Richard
Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky
Vaughan_Williams
Verdi
Vivaldi
Wagner
Walton
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| No |
Composer |
Opera |
Date |
| 1 |
Bizet |
Les
Pecheurs de Perles |
1863 |
| 2 |
Mascagni |
Cavalleria Rusticana |
1890 |
| 3 |
Verdi |
Nabucco |
1842 |
| 4 |
Puccini |
Madama Butterfly |
1904 |
| 5 |
Puccini |
La
Boheme |
1896 |
| 6 |
Delibes |
Lakme |
1883 |
| 7 |
Mozart |
Le
Nozze di Figaro |
1786 |
| 8 |
Gluck |
Orphee
et Eurydice |
1762 |
| 9 |
Verdi |
Aida |
1871 |
| 10 |
Mozart |
Die
Zauberflote |
1791 |
| 11 |
Puccini |
Turandot |
1926 |
| 12 |
Verdi |
La
Traviata |
1853 |
| 13 |
Wagner |
Tristan & Isolde |
1865 |
| 14 |
Wagner |
Die Walkure (Ring II) |
1850 |
| 15 |
Mozart |
Cosi Fan Tutte |
1790 |
| 16 |
Wagner |
Siegfried (Ring III) |
1876 |
| 17 |
Saint-Saens |
Samson &
Dalila |
1877 |
| 18 |
Bizet |
Carmen |
1875 |
| 19 |
Wagner |
Tannhauser |
1845 |
| 20 |
Puccini |
Tosca |
1900 |
| 21 |
Dvorak |
Rusalka |
1901 |
| 22 |
Verdi |
La
Forza del Destino |
1862 |
| 23 |
Handel |
Serse |
1738 |
| 24 |
Rossini |
La
Gazza Ladra |
1817 |
| 25 |
Leoncavallo |
Pagliacci |
1892 |
| 26 |
Rameau |
Les
Indes Galantes |
1735 |
| 27 |
Offenbach |
Les
Contes d'Hoffman |
1881 |
| 28 |
Strauss |
Der
Rosenkavalier |
1911 |
| 29 |
Sullivan |
The
Mikado |
1885 |
| 30 |
Verdi |
Rigoletto |
1851 |
| 31 |
Lehar |
Die
Lustige Witwe |
1905 |
| 32 |
Mozart |
Don Giovanni |
1787 |
| 33 |
Bellini |
Norma |
1831 |
| 34 |
Wagner |
Die
Meistersinger von Nurnberg |
1868 |
| 35 |
Wagner |
Gotterdammerung (Ring IV) |
1876 |
| 36 |
Rossini |
Guillaume
Tell |
1829 |
| 37 |
Wagner |
Lohengrin |
1850 |
| 38 |
Puccini |
Il
Trittico |
1918 |
| 39 |
Verdi |
Il
Trovatore |
1853 |
| 40 |
Bernstein |
Candide |
1988 |
| 41 |
Tchaikovsky |
Eugene Onegin |
1879 |
| 42 |
Mozart |
Die
Entfuhrung aus dem Serail |
1782 |
| 43 |
Offenbach |
Orphee
aux Enfers |
1858 |
| 44 |
Purcell |
Dido & Aeneas |
1689 |
| 45 |
Donizetti |
Lucia di Lammermoor |
1835 |
| 46 |
Sullivan |
The
Pirates of Penzance |
1879 |
| 47 |
Rossini |
Il
Barbiere de Siviglia |
1816 |
| 48 |
Puccini |
La
Rondine |
1916 |
| 49 |
Strauss |
Die
Fledermaus |
1874 |
| 50 |
Berg |
Lulu |
1937 |
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