Opera seria meets commedia dell'arte.
50. Ariadne auf Naxos (Richard Strauss)
Category: German composers
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.
44. Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung / The Taming of the Shrew (Hermann Goetz)
George Bernard Shaw thought it was "the greatest comic opera of the century, except Die Meistersinger".
The Opera Scribe 