For an opera called The Pirate, this isn’t very pirate-y. Not a Jolly Roger in sight, only a melancholy Walter!
28. Il pirata (Bellini)
Category: Italian opera
22. La forza del destino (Giuseppe Verdi)
Vast, unwieldy, and ultra-Romantic.
20. Tosca (Giacomo Puccini)
The one where an opera singer knifes an over-enthusiastic admirer.
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