A 30-page short story is turned into a three-hour opera.
40. The Queen of Spades / Pique Dame (Пиковая дама) (Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky)
Category: 19th century opera
39. Ivan IV (Georges Bizet)
Bizet's unfinished opera about Ivan the Terrible.
38. Cavalleria rusticana (Pietro Mascagni)
Verismo: passion and murder in a Sicilian village.
The Opera Scribe 