Operas by date

1600s

1600

• 6 October: Euridice (Peri)

1607

• Carnival: La favola d’Orfeo (Monteverdi)

1625

• 3 February: La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina (Caccini)

1639-40

• Carnival: Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria (Monteverdi)

1643

• Carnival: L’incoronazione di Poppea (Monteverdi)

1667

• Eliogabalo (Cavalli) [first performed 27 November 1999]

1673

• 27 April: Cadmus et Hermione (Lully)

1674

• 19 January: Alceste (Lully)

1675

• 3 February: Thésée (Lully)

1676

• 10 January: Atys (Lully)

1677

• 5 January: Isis (Lully)

1678

• 19 April: Psyché (Lully)

1679

• 31 January: Bellérophon (Lully)

1680

• 3 February: Proserpine (Lully)

1682

• 17 April: Persée (Lully)

1683

• 6 January: Phaéton (Lully)

circa 1683

• Venus and Adonis (Blow)

circa 1683 – 1688

• Dido and Aeneas (Purcell)

1684

• 18 January: Amadis (Lully)

1685

• 8 January: Roland (Lully)

1686

• 15 February: Armide (Lully)

1688

• 5 January: Niobe, regina di Tebe (Steffani)

1693

• 4 December: Médée (Charpentier)

1700s

1702

• 7 November: Tancrède (Campra)

1709

• 26 December: Agrippina (Handel)

1711

• 2 February: Rinaldo (Handel)

1717

• 23 January: L’incoronazione di Dario (Vivaldi)

1720

• Autumn: La verità in cimento (Vivaldi)

1724

• 20 February: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Handel)

1727

• 11 January: Gismondo, re di Polonia (Vinci)
• Farnace (Vivaldi)
• Autumn: Orlando furioso (Vivaldi)

1728

• 19 January: Catone in Utica (Vinci)

1730

• 4 February: Artaserse (Vinci)
• 6 December: Croesus (1730 version) (Keiser)

1732

• 11 February: Germanico in Germania (Porpora)
• 28 February: Jephté (Montéclair)

1733

• 28 August: La serva padrona (Pergolesi)
• 1 October: Hippolyte et Aricie (Rameau)

1735

• 23 August: Les Indes galantes (Rameau)

1737

• 12 January: Arminio (Handel)
• 24 October: Castor et Pollux (Rameau)

1738

• 15 April: Serse (Handel)

1739

• 19 November: Dardanus (Rameau)

1748

• 27 August: Pygmalion (Pigmalion) (Rameau)

1749

• 22 April: Naïs (Rameau)

1750

• Spring: Ezio (Gluck)

1752

• 18 October: Le Devin du village (Rousseau)

1753

• 30 July: Les troqueurs (Dauvergne)

1762

• 5 October: Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck)
• 22 November: Le roi et le fermier (Monsigny)

1763

• 3 August: Siroe re di Persia (Hasse)

1765

• 27 February: Tom Jones (Philidor)

1767

• 12 March: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots (Mozart)
• 13 May: Apollo et Hyacinthus (Mozart)
• 26 December: Alceste (Gluck)

1768

• Bastien und Bastienne (Mozart)

1769

• 6 March: Le Déserteur (Monsigny)
• 20 September: Le Tableau parlant (Grétry)

1770

• 3 November: Paride ed Elena (Gluck)
• 26 December: Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mozart)

1771

• 2 June: Armida (Salieri)

1772

• 29 January: La fiera di Venezia (Salieri)

1773

• 4 March: Le magnifique (Grétry)

1774

• 12 April: Iphigénie en Aulide (Gluck)

1775

• 13 January: La finta giardiniera (Mozart)

1777

• 23 September: Armide (Gluck)

1778

• 27 January: Roland (Piccinni)
• 3 August: Europa riconosciuta (Salieri)
• 20 November: L’Amant jaloux (Grétry)
• 27 December: La scuola de’ gelosi (Salieri)

1779

• 18 May: Iphigénie en Tauride (Gluck)

1780

• 6 June: Andromaque (Grétry)

1781

• 22 January: Iphigénie en Tauride (Piccinni)

1782

• 1 March: Thésée (Gossec)
• 16 July: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Mozart)
• 26 September: Il barbiere di Siviglia (Paisiello)
• 6 December: Orlando paladino (Haydn)

1783

• 28 February: Renaud (Sacchini)
• 30 October: La Caravane du Caire (Grétry)
• 16 November: Didon (Piccinni)
• 16 November: Chimène (Sacchini)

1784

• 26 April: Les Danaïdes (Salieri)
• 24 June: L’épreuve villageoise (Grétry)
• 21 October: Richard Coeur-de-lion (Grétry)

1785

• 12 October: La grotta di Trofonio (Salieri)

1786

• 4 January: Œdipe à Colone (Sacchini)
• 7 February: Der Schauspieldirektor (Mozart)
• 1 May: Le nozze di Figaro (Mozart)
• 26 October: Phèdre (Lemoyne)
• 2 November: Les Horaces (Salieri)

1787

• 8 June: Tarare (Salieri)
• 29 October: Don Giovanni (Mozart)

1788

• 1 December: Démophoon (Cherubini)

1789

• 2 March: Raoul Barbe-Bleue (Grétry)
• 25 June: Nina (Paisiello)

1790

• 13 January: Pierre le Grand (Grétry)
• 26 January: Così fan tutte (Mozart)

1791

• 9 April: Guillaume Tell (Grétry)
• 18 July: Lodoïska (Cherubini)
• 6 September: La clemenza di Tito (Mozart)

1792

• 7 February: Il matrimonio segreto (Cimarosa)
• 3 May: Stratonice (Méhul)

1797

• 13 March: Médee (Cherubini)

1799

• 4 June: Adrien (Méhul)

1800s

1800

• 16 January: Les deux journées (Cherubini)
• 16 September: Le calife de Bagdad (Boieldieu)

1801

• 17 February: L’irato (Méhul)

1805

• 20 November: Fidelio (Beethoven)

1806

• 25 February: Faniska (Cherubini)
• 17 May: Uthal (Méhul)

1807

• 17 February: Joseph (Méhul)
• 15 December: La vestale (Spontini)

1809

• 28 November: Fernand Cortez (Spontini)

1812

• 23 December: Jephtas Gelübde (Meyerbeer)
• 9 May: La scala di seta (Rossini)

1813

• 6 February: Tancredi (Rossini)
• 6 April: Les Abencérages (Cherubini)

1814

• 14 August: Il turco in Italia (Rossini)

1815

• 4 October: Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra (Rossini)
• 26 December: Torvaldo e Dorliska (Rossini)

1816

• 20 February: Il barbiere di Siviglia / The Barber of Seville (Rossini)
• 4 December: Otello (Rossini)

1817

• 25 January: La Cenerentola (Rossini)
• 31 May: La gazza ladra (Rossini)
• 19 July: Romilda e Costanza (Meyerbeer)
• 11 November: Armida (Rossini)

1818

• 5 March: Mosè in Egitto (Rossini)

1819

• 3 February: Semiramide riconosciuta (Meyerbeer)
• 27 March: Ermione (Rossini)
• 22 December: Olympie (Spontini)

1820

• 3 December: Maometto II (Rossini)

1821

• 18 June: Der Freischütz (Weber)

1823

• 28 July: Jessonda (Spohr)
• 25 October: Euryanthe (Weber)

1825

• 19 November: L’ultimo giorno di Pompei (Pacini)

1826

• 21 February: Caritea, regina di Spagna (Mercadante)

1827

• 27 October: Il pirata (Bellini)

1828

• 29 February: La muette de Portici (Auber)
• 20 August: Le comte Ory (Rossini)

1829

• 12 January: Il paria (Donizetti)
• 14 February: La straniera (Bellini)
• 7 November: Le dilettante d’Avignon (Halévy)

1830

• 28 January: Fra Diavolo (Auber)
• 6 February: I pazzi per progetto (Donizetti)

1831

• 20 June: Le Philtre (Auber)

1832

• 13 March: Ugo, conte di Parigi (Donizetti)
• 12 May: L’elisir d’amore (Donzietti)

1833

• 27 February: Gustave III (Auber)

1834

• 8 March: Emma d’Antiochia (Mercadante)

1835

• 24 January: I puritani (Bellini)
• 12 March: Marino Faliero (Donizetti)
• 23 March: Le cheval de bronze (Auber)

1836

• 4 February: Belisario (Donizetti)
• 29 February: Les Huguenots (Meyerbeer)
• 29 March: Das Liebesverbot (Wagner)
• 13 October: Le postillon de Lonjumeau (Adam)
• 18 November: L’assedio di Calais (Donizetti)
• 14 November: La Esmeralda (Bertin)
• 9 December: A Life for the Tsar (Glinka)

1837

• 11 March: Il giuramento (Mercadante)
• 2 December: Le domino noir (Auber)

1838

• 30 January: Maria di Rudenz (Donizetti)

1839

• 1 January: Elena da Feltre (Mercadante)
• 17 November: Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio (Verdi)

1841

• 6 March: Les diamants de la couronne (Auber)
• 22 December: La reine de Chypre (Halévy)
• 26 December: Maria Padilla (Donizetti)

1842

• 20 October: Rienzi (Wagner)
• 9 December: Ruslan and Lyudmila (Glinka)

1843

• 2 January: Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) (Wagner)
• 6 June: Maria di Rohan (Donizetti)

1844

• 12 January: Caterina Cornaro (Donizetti)
• 26 March: La sirène (Auber)

1845

• 19 October: Tannhäuser (Wagner)

1847

• 14 March: Macbeth (Verdi)
• 28 December: Haÿdée (Auber)

1849

• 9 March: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor (Nicolai)
• 16 April: Le Prophète (Meyerbeer)
• 19 May: Cristina, regina di Svezia (Foroni)

1850

• 7 June: La tempesta (Halévy)
• 28 August: Lohengrin (Wagner)

1853

• 19 January: Il trovatore (Verdi)
• 28 October: Pepito (Offenbach)

1855

• 5 July: Une nuit blanche / Les deux aveugles (Offenbach)
• 14 August: Raymond and Agnes (Loder)
• 29 December: Ba-ta-clan / Sur un volcan (Offenbach and L’Épine)

1856

• 23 February: Manon Lescaut (Auber)
• 3 April: Tromb-al-ca-zar (Offenbach)

1857

• 12 February: Pelagio (Mercadante)
• 12 March: Simon Boccanegra (Verdi)

1858

• 21 October: Orphée aux enfers (Offenbach)

1859

• 17 February: Un ballo in maschera (Verdi)
• 19 March: Faust (Gounod)

1860

• 9 March: Pierre de Médicis (Poniatowski)

1861

• 31 May: M. Choufleuri restera chez lui le… (Offenbach)

1862

• 9 August: Béatrice et Bénédict (Berlioz)
• 10 November: La forza del destino (Verdi)
• comp. 1862-65: Ivan IV (Bizet)

1863

• 28 May: Judith (Serov)
• 4 November: Les Troyens (Berlioz)

1865

• 28 April: L’Africaine / Vasco de Gama (Meyerbeer)
• 21 May: Der Cid (Cornelius)
• 30 May: Amleto (Faccio)

1866

• 30 May: The Bartered Bride (Smetana)

1867

• 12 April: La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (Offenbach)

1869

• 22 September: Der Ring des Nibelungen: Das Rheingold (Wagner)

1870

• 19 March: Il Guarany (Gomes)
• 26 June: Der Ring des Nibelungen: Die Walküre (Wagner)

1872

• 16 February: Kamenny Gost {The Stone Guest} (Dargomyzhsky)
• 22 May: Djamileh (Bizet)
• 12 June: La princesse jaune (Saint-Saëns)

1873

• 13 January: The Maid of Pskov (Rimsky-Korsakov)

1874

• 11 October: Der Widerspänstigen Zähmung / The Taming of the Shrew (Goetz)

1875

• 3 March: Carmen (Bizet)

1876

• 16 August: Der Ring des Nibelungen: Siegfried (Wagner)
• 17 August: Der Ring des Nibelungen: Götterdämmerung (Wagner)
• 13 October: Pierrette et Jacquot (Offenbach)

1877

• 23 February: Le timbre d’argent (Saint-Saëns)

1881

• 10 February: Les contes d’Hoffmann (Offenbach)
• 1 April: Le tribut de Zamora (Gounod)
• 19 December: Hérodiade (Massenet)

1882

• 26 July: Parsifal (Wagner)

1883

• 14 April: Lakmé (Delibes)

1884

• 4 May: Der Trompeter von Säkkingen (Nessler)
• 15 February: Mazeppa (Tchaikovsky)

Composed c. 1885 – 1895:

• Re Lear (Cagnoni) [first performed 19 July 2009]

1886

• 20 December: Patrie! (Paladilhe)

1888

• 7 May: Le Roi d’Ys (Lalo)
• 29 June: Die Feen (Wagner)

1889

• 17 May: Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni)

1890

• 21 March: Ascanio (Saint-Saëns)
• 19 December: The Queen of Spades (Tchaikovsky)

1891

• 31 January: Ivanhoe (Sullivan)

1892

• 20 January: La Wally (Catalani)
• 21 February: Mala vita (Giordano)

1893

• 24 March: Kassya (Delibes)
• 24 May: Phryné (Saint-Saëns)
• 6 November: I Medici (Leoncavallo)

1894

• 10 May: Guntram (Strauss)
• 20 June: La Navarraise (Massenet)

1897

• 12 March: Fervaal (d’Indy)

1898

• 7 January: Sadko (Rimsky-Korsakov)
• 27 December: The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga (Rimsky-Korsakov)

1900s

1900

• 14 January: Tosca (Puccini)

1901

• 21 November: Feuersnot (Strauss)

1902

• 18 February: Le Jongleur de Notre-Dame (Massenet)
• 11 March: Germania (Franchetti)
• 30 April: Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy)
• 6 November: Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea)

1903

• 7 January: L’Étranger (d’Indy)
• 30 November: Le roi Arthus (Chausson)
• 19 December: Siberia (Giordano)

1904

• 21 January: Jenůfa (Janáček)
• 18 February: Hélène (Saint-Saëns)

1905

• 28 June: L’Oracolo (Leoni)

1907

• 10 May: Ariane et Barbe-bleue (Dukas)
• 9 November: Marcella (Giordano)

1909

• 13 January: Monna Vanna (Février)

1910

• 17 March: Mese Mariano (Giordano)

1911

• 2 June: Isabeau (Mascagni)
• 15 December: Bérénice (Magnard)

1912

• 7 February: La lépreuse (Lazzari)

1913

• 4 March: Pénélope (Fauré)

1914

• 6 May: Scemo (Bachelet)
• 15 May: Mârouf, savetier du Caire (Rabaud)

1915

• 26 September: Mona Lisa (Schillings)

1916

• 5 December: S­āvitri (Holst)
• 4 October: Ariadne auf Naxos (Strauss)

1917

• 11 May: Arlecchino / Turandot (Busoni)

1919

• 10 October: Die Frau ohne Schatten (Strauss)

1920

• 4 December: Die tote Stadt (Korngold)

1921

• 4 June: Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen / Das Nusch-Nuschi (Hindemith)
• 23 November: Káťa Kabanová (Janáček)

1922

• 26 March: Sancta Susanna (Hindemith)
• 18 May: Renard (Igor Stravinsky)

1923

• 1 June: Padmâvatî (Roussel)

1924

• 6 November: The Cunning Little Vixen (Janáček)
• 28 November: Legenda Bałtyku (Nowowiejski)

1925

• 3 April: At the Boar’s Head (Holst)
• 21 May: Doktor Faust (Busoni)

1926

• 25 April: Turandot (Puccini)
• 7 May: Les malheurs d’Orphée (Milhaud)
• 19 June: Król Roger (Szymanowski)
• 9 November: Cardillac (Hindemith)
• 18 December: Věc Makropulos [The Makropulos Affair] (Janáček)

1927

• July: Trois opéras-minute (Milhaud)
• 16 December: Le pauvre matelot (Milhaud)

1929

• 12 January: Il re (Giordano)

1930

• 5 May: Christophe Colomb (Milhaud)

1931

• 23 April: Guercœur (Magnard)

1934

• 31 January: The Wandering Scholar (Holst)

1938

• 24 July: Friedenstag (Strauss)

1942

• 28 October: Capriccio (Strauss)

1945

• 7 June: Peter Grimes (Britten)

1951

• 1 December: Billy Budd (Britten)

1954

• 14 September: The Turn of the Screw (Britten)

1960

• 11 June: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Britten)
• 13 October: Il Pigmalione (Donizetti) (composed 1816)

1966

• 16 September: Antony and Cleopatra (Barber)

1967

• 19 May: Bomarzo (Ginastera)
• 13 August: The Lake of Menteith (Noble)

1969

• 20 June: Die Teufel von Loudun (Penderecki)

1973

• 16 June: Death in Venice (Britten)