Have you an hour to spare? You could do worse than listen to Grétry's charming Magnifique.
52. Le magnifique (André Ernest Modeste Grétry)
Category: French 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 