Was Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of the Ukraine, villain or patriot?
48. Мазепа (Mazeppa) (Tchaikovsky)
Category: 19th century opera
47. La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Jacques Offenbach)
“C’est tout-à-fait ça," said Bismarck, after seeing Offenbach’s satire of war and petty German princedoms.
45. I puritani (Vincenzo Bellini)
"The opera must make people weep, shudder, die through singing."
The Opera Scribe 