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The Rough Guide to Opera

A list of the operas described in the book The Rough Guide to Opera.
Chapter 1 – The Birth of Opera: 1-13
Chapter 2 – Baroque Opera: 14-34
Chapter 3 – The Reformation of Opera: 35-53
Chapter 4 – The Age of Romanticism: 54-107
Chapter 5 – Verdi, Wagner and their Contemporaries: 108-173
Chapter 6 – Opera in transition: 174-204
Chapter 7 – The Era of Modernism: 205-277
Chapter 8 – Opera since World War II: 278-349

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1.
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 L'Orfeo
by Claudio Monteverdi
  
2.
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 Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
by Claudio Monteverdi
  
3.
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 L'Incoronazione di Poppea
by Claudio Monteverdi
  
4.
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 Giasone
by Pier Francesco Cavalli
  
5.
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 La Calisto
by Pier Francesco Cavalli
  
6.
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 Atys
by Jean-Baptiste Lully
  
7.
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 Armide
by Jean-Baptiste Lully
  
8.
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 Acis et Galatée
by Jean-Baptiste Lully
  
9.
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 La descente d'Orphée aux enfers
by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  
10.
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 Médée
by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  
11.
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 Venus and Adonis
by John Blow
  
12.
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 Dido and Aeneas
by William Purcell
  
13.
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 The Fairy Queen
by Henry Purcell
  
14.
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 Ottone in villa
by Antonio Vivaldi
  
15.
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 L'incoronazione di Dario
by Antonio Vivaldi
  
16.
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 La serva padrona
by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
  
17.
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 Idoménée
by André Campra
  
18.
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 Hippolyte et Aricie
by Jean-Philippe Rameau
  
19.
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 Les Indes galantes
by Jean-Philippe Rameau
  
20.
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 Castor et Pollux
by Jean-Philippe Rameau
  
21.
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 Platée
by Jean-Philippe Rameau
  
22.
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 Dardanus
by Jean-Philippe Rameau
  
23.
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 Orpheus
by Georg-Philipp Telemann
  
24.
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 Pimpinone
by Georg-Philipp Telemann
  
25.
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 Agrippina
by George Frideric Handel
  
26.
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 Rinaldo
by George Frideric Handel
  
27.
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 Giulio Cesare
by George Frideric Handel
  
28.
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 Tamerlano
by George Frideric Handel
  
29.
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 Orlando
by George Frideric Handel
  
30.
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 Ariodante
by George Frideric Handel
  
31.
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 Alcina
by George Frideric Handel
  
32.
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 Xerxes
by George Frideric Handel
  
33.
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 Semele
by George Frideric Handel
  
34.
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 The Beggar's Opera
by John Gay
  
35.
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 Orfeo ed Euridice
by Christoph Willibald Gluck
  
36.
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 Alceste
by Christoph Willibald Gluck
  
37.
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 Iphigénie en Aulide
by Christoph Willibald Gluck
  
38.
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 Armide
by Christoph Willibald Gluck
  
39.
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 Iphigénie en Tauride
by Christoph Willibald Gluck
  
40.
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 L'infedeltà delusa
by Joseph Haydn
  
41.
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 L'incontro improvviso
by Joseph Haydn
  
42.
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 Il mondo della luna
by Joseph Haydn
  
43.
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 Il barbiere di Siviglia
by Giovanni Paisiello
  
44.
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 Il matrimonio segreto
by Domenico Cimarosa
  
45.
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 Les Danaïdes
by Antonio Salieri
  
46.
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 Falstaff
by Antonio Salieri
  
47.
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 Idomeneo
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
48.
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 Die Entführung aus dem Serail
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
49.
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 Le nozze di Figaro
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
50.
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 Don Giovanni
by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
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Created by Terpsikore on Feb 18, 2008.