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: Russian opera
22. La forza del destino (Giuseppe Verdi)
Vast, unwieldy, and ultra-Romantic.
18. Sadko (Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov)
The one with the Song of the Indian Merchant.
The Opera Scribe 