Top 100 operas

top 100 most performed operas as of the end of the 2021/22 season sorted by the year of birth of composers, along with their birth and death years:
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643):
  • Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (not in top 100)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787):
  • Orfeo ed Euridice (66)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791):
  • Die Zauberflöte (3, 23)
  • Le nozze di Figaro (4)
  • Don Giovanni (8)
  • Così fan tutte (13)
  • La Clemenza di Tito (not in top 100)
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868):
  • Il barbiere di Siviglia (11, 95)
  • La Cenerentola (35)
  • Il turco in Italia (72)
  • Il viaggio a Reims (58)
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848):
  • Lucia di Lammermoor (14, 75)
  • L'elisir d'amore (21)
  • La fille du régiment (43)
  • Roberto Devereux (55)
  • Don Pasquale (63)
Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835):
  • La sonnambula (29)
  • I puritani (33)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901):
  • La traviata (1, 82)
  • Aida (9)
  • Rigoletto (10, 93)
  • Un ballo in maschera (15)
  • Falstaff (24)
  • Nabucco (22)
  • Macbeth (74)
  • Simon Boccanegra (45)
  • Il trovatore (46)
  • I Lombardi alla prima crociata (60)
  • Don Carlos (70)
Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864):
  • Les Huguenots (not in top 100)
Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880):
  • Les contes d'Hoffmann (48)
Charles Gounod (1818-1893):
  • Faust (38)
Richard Wagner (1813-1883):
  • Tristan und Isolde (29, 53, 93)
  • Lohengrin (44)
  • Der fliegende Holländer (36)
  • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (53)
  • Parsifal (not in top 100)
  • Tannhäuser (not in top 100)
  • Die Walküre (68)
  • Götterdämmerung (89)
Georges Bizet (1838-1875):
  • Carmen (2)
Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881):
  • Boris Godunov (40)
Richard Strauss (1864-1949):
  • Der Rosenkavalier (16)
  • Salome (26)
  • Elektra (27)
  • Ariadne auf Naxos (56)
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893):
  • Eugene Onegin (19, 91)
  • The Queen of Spades (54)
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919):
  • Pagliacci (not in top 100)
Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921):
  • Samson et Dalila (39)
Engelbert Humperdinck (1854-1921):
  • Hänsel und Gretel (34)
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924):
  • Madama Butterfly (5)
  • Tosca (6)
  • La bohème (7)
  • Turandot (12)
  • Gianni Schicchi (30)
  • Manon Lescaut (31)
  • La fanciulla del West (69)
Leoš Janáček (1854-1928):
  • From the House of the Dead (50)
  • Jenufa (65)
  • The Cunning Little Vixen (67)
  • Katya Kabanova (80)
  • The Makropulos Affair (100)
Alexander Borodin (1833-1887):
  • Prince Igor (52)
Johann Strauss II (1825-1899):
  • Die Fledermaus (18)
Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909):
  • Medea (not in top 100)
Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944):
  • Francesca da Rimini (not in top 100)
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963):
  • Dialogues des Carmélites (41)
Samuel Barber (1910-1981):
  • Vanessa (not in top 100)
Béla Bartók (1881-1945):
  • Bluebeard's Castle - Erwartung (94)
Richard Strauss II (1863-1943):
  • Die Fledermaus (not in top 100)
Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951):
  • Erwartung (not in top 100)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976):
  • Billy Budd (49)
  • The Turn of the Screw (78)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990):
  • The Tender Land (not in top 100)
Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953):
  • War and Peace (not in top 100)
George Gershwin (1898-1937):
  • Porgy and Bess (57)
Alban Berg (1885-1935):
  • Wozzeck (59)
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957):
  • Die tote Stadt (79)
Bohuslav Martinů (1890-1959):
  • Julietta (not in top 100)
Paul Hindemith (1895-1963):
  • Mathis der Maler (not in top 100)
Francisca Borgia (not found):
  • L'Oracolo (not in top 100)
Thomas Adès (1971-):
  • The Tempest (87)
 
 
 
top 100 most performed operas as of the end of the 2021/22 season sorted by the year of birth of composers, along with their birth and death years:
  • 1567-1643: Claudio Monteverdi
  • 1714-1787: Christoph Willibald Gluck - Orfeo ed Euridice
  • 1756-1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
    • Die Zauberflöte (3, 23)
    • Le nozze di Figaro (4)
    • Don Giovanni (8)
    • Così fan tutte (13)
  • 1792-1868: Gioachino Rossini
    • Il barbiere di Siviglia (11, 95)
    • La Cenerentola (35)
    • Il turco in Italia (72)
    • Il viaggio a Reims (58)
  • 1797-1848: Gaetano Donizetti
    • Lucia di Lammermoor (14, 75)
    • L'elisir d'amore (21)
    • La fille du régiment (43)
    • Roberto Devereux (55)
    • Don Pasquale (63)
  • 1801-1835: Vincenzo Bellini
    • La sonnambula (29)
    • I puritani (33)
  • 1813-1901: Giuseppe Verdi
    • La traviata (1, 82)
    • Aida (9)
    • Rigoletto (10, 93)
    • Un ballo in maschera (15)
    • Falstaff (24)
    • Nabucco (22)
    • Macbeth (74)
    • Simon Boccanegra (45)
    • Il trovatore (46)
    • I Lombardi alla prima crociata (60)
    • Don Carlos (70)
  • 1791-1864: Giacomo Meyerbeer - Les Huguenots
  • 1819-1880: Jacques Offenbach - Les contes d'Hoffmann (48)
  • 1818-1893: Charles Gounod - Faust (38)
  • 1813-1883: Richard Wagner
    • Tristan und Isolde (29, 53, 93)
    • Lohengrin (44)
    • Der fliegende Holländer (36)
    • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (53)
    • Parsifal
    • Tannhäuser
    • Die Walküre (68)
    • Götterdämmerung (89)
  • 1838-1875: Georges Bizet - Carmen (2)
  • 1839-1881: Modest Mussorgsky - Boris Godunov (40)
  • 1864-1949: Richard Strauss
    • Der Rosenkavalier (16)
    • Salome (26)
    • Elektra (27)
    • Ariadne auf Naxos (56)
  • 1840-1893: Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
    • Eugene Onegin (19, 91)
    • The Queen of Spades (54)
  • 1857-1919: Ruggero Leoncavallo - Pagliacci
  • 1835-1921: Camille Saint-Saëns - Samson et Dalila (39)
  • 1854-1921: Engelbert Humperdinck - Hänsel und Gretel (34)
  • 1858-1924: Giacomo Puccini
    • Madama Butterfly (5)
    • Tosca (6)
    • La bohème (7)
    • Turandot (12)
    • Gianni Schicchi (30)
    • Manon Lescaut (31)
    • La fanciulla del West (69)
  • 1854-1928: Leoš Janáček
    • From the House of the Dead (50)
    • Jenufa (65)
    • The Cunning Little Vixen (67)
    • Katya Kabanova (80)
    • The Makropulos Affair (100)
  • 1833-1887: Alexander Borodin - Prince Igor (52)
  • 1825-1899: Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus (18)
  • 1856-1909: Giuseppe Martucci - Medea
  • 1883-1944: Riccardo Zandonai - Francesca da Rimini
  • 1899-1963: Francis Poulenc - Dialogues des Carmélites (41)
  • 1910-1981: Samuel Barber - Vanessa
  • 1881-1945: Béla Bartók - Bluebeard's Castle - Erwartung (94)
  • 1863-1943: Richard Strauss II - Die Fledermaus
  • 1874-1951: Arnold Schoenberg - Erwartung
  • 1913-1976: Benjamin Britten
    • Billy Budd (49)
    • The Turn of the Screw (78)
  • 1900-1990: Aaron Copland - The Tender Land
  • 1891-1953: Sergei Prokofiev - War and Peace
  • 1898-1937: George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess (57)
  • 1885-1935: Alban Berg - Wozzeck (59)
  • 1897-1957: Erich Wolfgang Korngold - Die tote Stadt (79)
  • 1890-1959: Bohuslav Martinů - Julietta
  • 1895-1963: Paul Hindemith - Mathis der Maler
  • Francisca Borgia - L'Oracolo
  • 1971-: Thomas Adès - The Tempest (87)