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472 composers represented in the archive · listed alphabetically with their catalogued opera count.
Adolphe Adam
1803 – 1856
5 operas
Agostino Steffani
1654 – 1728
2 operas
Ahmet Adnan Saygun
1907 – 1991
1 opera
Albert Lortzing
1801 – 1851
4 operas
Alberto Franchetti
1860 – 1942
3 operas
Alberto Ginastera
1916 – 1983
3 operas
A
Alessandro Melani
1 opera
Alessandro Scarlatti
1660 – 1725
6 operas
Alessandro Stradella
1643 – 1682
1 opera
Alexander Dargomyzhsky
1813 – 1869
1 opera
Alexander Goehr
1932 – 2024
3 operas
Alexander Serov
1820 – 1871
1 opera
Alexander Spendiaryan
1 opera
Alexander Zemlinsky
1871 – 1942
6 operas
Alexey Verstovsky
1 opera
Alfred Bruneau
1857 – 1934
1 opera
Alfred Cellier
5 operas
Alfred Schnittke
1934 – 1998
1 opera
Alfredo Catalani
1854 – 1893
1 opera
Amadeo Vives
1871 – 1932
1 opera
Ambroise Thomas
1811 – 1896
3 operas
Amilcare Ponchielli
1834 – 1886
3 operas
Amy Beach
1867 – 1944
1 opera
André Campra
7 operas
André Cardinal Destouches
1672 – 1749
3 operas
André Grétry
1741 – 1813
12 operas
André Messager
1853 – 1929
10 operas
André Previn
1929 – 2019
2 operas
A
Andy Vores
1956 –
2 operas
A
Anna Amalia
1595 – 1651
1 opera
A
Antoine Dauvergne
1713 – 1797
3 operas
Anton Arensky
1 opera
Anton Rubinstein
1829 – 1894
7 operas
Anton Schweitzer
1735 – 1787
1 opera
Antonio Braga
1929 – 2009
1 opera
Antonio Cagnoni
1 opera
Antonio Caldara
2 operas
A
Antonio Cesti
1623 – 1669
3 operas
Antonio Maria Bononcini
1 opera
Antonio Sacchini
1730 – 1786
6 operas
Antonio Salieri
1750 – 1825
11 operas
A
Antonio Sartorio
1630 – 1680
1 opera
Antonio Smareglia
1854 – 1929
3 operas
Antonio Vivaldi
1678 – 1741
14 operas
Antonín Dvořák
1841 – 1904
4 operas
Aribert Reimann
1936 – 2024
6 operas
Armen Tigranian
2 operas
Arnold Schoenberg
1874 – 1951
2 operas
Arthur Goring Thomas
1 opera
Arthur Honegger
1892 – 1955
1 opera
Arthur Sullivan
1842 – 1900
3 operas
Aulis Sallinen
3 operas
Baldassare Galuppi
1706 – 1785
4 operas
Bedřich Smetana
1824 – 1884
2 operas
Benjamin Britten
1913 – 1976
6 operas
Benjamin Godard
1 opera
B
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
1918 – 1970
1 opera
Berthold Goldschmidt
2 operas
Bohuslav Martinů
1890 – 1959
6 operas
Boris Blacher
1903 – 1975
1 opera
Béla Bartók
1881 – 1945
1 opera
Camille Erlanger
1863 – 1919
1 opera
Camille Saint-Saëns
1835 – 1921
5 operas
Carl Heinrich Graun
1704 – 1759
2 operas
Carl Maria von Weber
1786 – 1826
5 operas
Carl Millöcker
1842 – 1899
3 operas
Carl Orff
1895 – 1982
5 operas
Carl Reinecke
1824 – 1910
1 opera
Carl Zeller
1 opera
Carla Bley
1936 – 2023
1 opera
Carlisle Floyd
1926 – 2021
3 operas
Carlo Coccia
1782 – 1873
3 operas
C
Carlos Gomes
3 operas
Charles Gounod
1818 – 1893
5 operas
C
Charles Hubert Gervais
1 opera
Charles Lecocq
1832 – 1918
10 operas
C
Charlotte Bray
1982 –
1 opera
Christoph Willibald Gluck
1714 – 1787
17 operas
Claude Debussy
1862 – 1918
3 operas
Claudio Monteverdi
1567 – 1643
3 operas
Conradin Kreutzer
1780 – 1849
1 opera
C
Constantine Koukias
1 opera
César Cui
1835 – 1918
8 operas
César Franck
1822 – 1890
2 operas
Damon Albarn
1 opera
Daniel Auber
1782 – 1871
11 operas
Daniel Catán
1949 – 2011
2 operas
Darius Milhaud
1892 – 1974
5 operas
Daron Hagen
3 operas
D
David Carlson
1 opera
D
David DiChiera
1 opera
D
Deborah Drattell
1998 – 2001
1 opera
Deems Taylor
1885 – 1966
1 opera
Dmitri Shostakovich
1906 – 1975
4 operas
Dmitry Bortniansky
1751 – 1825
3 operas
D
Dmitry Kabalevsky
1904 – 1987
1 opera
Domenico Cimarosa
1749 – 1801
6 operas
D
Domenico Sarro
1679 – 1744
3 operas
Domenico Scarlatti
1685 – 1757
1 opera
Dominick Argento
1927 – 2019
2 operas
D
Douglas Moore
1919 – 1921
3 operas
Du Yun
1 opera
Duke Ellington
1899 – 1974
1 opera
Edmond Audran
4 operas
E
Edmund Nick
1891 – 1974
1 opera
Eduard Nápravník
1839 – 1916
1 opera
Edward German
1862 – 1936
2 operas
Edward Jakobowski
1 opera
Edward Solomon
2 operas
Egidio Duni
4 operas
Egon Wellesz
1885 – 1974
3 operas
Einojuhani Rautavaara
1928 – 2016
1 opera
E
Elena Langer
1999 – 2000
1 opera
Emil von Reznicek
1860 – 1945
2 operas
Emmanuel Chabrier
1841 – 1894
4 operas
Emmerich Kálmán
1882 – 1953
7 operas
E
Engelbert Humperdinck
1854 – 1921
3 operas
Enrique Granados
1867 – 1916
1 opera
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
1897 – 1957
5 operas
Erik Bergman
1 opera
Erkki Melartin
1875 – 1937
1 opera
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
1876 – 1948
7 operas
Ernest Reyer
1 opera
Ernst Krenek
1900 – 1991
5 operas
Errico Petrella
1 opera
Ethel Smyth
1858 – 1944
4 operas
Eugen Suchoň
1908 – 1993
1 opera
Eugen d'Albert
3 operas
F.L.Æ. Kunzen
1 opera
Felix Mendelssohn
1809 – 1847
3 operas
Ferdinando Paer
1771 – 1839
2 operas
Ferenc Erkel
1810 – 1893
6 operas
Ferruccio Busoni
1866 – 1924
3 operas
F
Francesco Bartolomeo Conti
1706 – 1759
1 opera
F
Francesco Bianchi
1606 – 1644
6 operas
Francesco Cavalli
1602 – 1676
14 operas
Francesco Cilea
1866 – 1950
2 operas
Francesco Gasparini
1661 – 1727
2 operas
Francis Poulenc
1899 – 1963
3 operas
Francisco António de Almeida
1702 – 1755
1 opera
F
Francisco Escudero
1912 – 2002
1 opera
Franco Alfano
2 operas
Franco Faccio
1840 – 1891
1 opera
Franco Leoni
1864 – 1949
1 opera
Frank Osmond Carr
1 opera
Franz Berwald
1796 – 1868
2 operas
Franz Lehár
1870 – 1948
8 operas
Franz Liszt
1811 – 1886
1 opera
F
Franz Reizenstein
1911 – 1968
1 opera
Franz Schreker
1878 – 1934
9 operas
Franz Schubert
1797 – 1828
7 operas
Franz von Suppé
1819 – 1895
7 operas
François Cellier
1849 – 1914
1 opera
François-Adrien Boïeldieu
1775 – 1834
4 operas
François-André Danican Philidor
1726 – 1795
2 operas
Frederic Clay
1838 – 1889
2 operas
Frederic H. Cowen
1852 – 1935
2 operas
Frederick Delius
1862 – 1934
3 operas
Fredrik Pacius
1 opera
Friedrich Lux
1820 – 1895
1 opera
Friedrich von Flotow
1812 – 1883
1 opera
Fritz Kreisler
1875 – 1962
1 opera
Fromental Halévy
1799 – 1862
9 operas
Félicien David
1810 – 1876
3 operas
Gaetano Donizetti
1797 – 1848
36 operas
Gaetano Latilla
1711 – 1788
1 opera
Gaspare Spontini
7 operas
Gavin Bryars
2 operas
Georg Benda
1722 – 1795
1 opera
Georg Philipp Telemann
1681 – 1767
6 operas
George Alexander Macfarren
1 opera
George Antheil
1900 – 1959
1 opera
G
George Benjamin
1799 – 1864
1 opera
George Frideric Handel
1685 – 1759
25 operas
George Gershwin
1898 – 1937
1 opera
George Grossmith
1847 – 1912
2 operas
Georges Bizet
1838 – 1875
6 operas
G
Gerald Barry
1898 – 1968
1 opera
Giacomo Meyerbeer
1791 – 1864
9 operas
G
Giacomo Orefice
1865 – 1922
1 opera
Giacomo Puccini
1858 – 1924
8 operas
Gian Carlo Menotti
1911 – 2007
4 operas
Gian Francesco de Majo
1732 – 1770
1 opera
Gioachino Rossini
1792 – 1868
20 operas
Giorgio Battistelli
2 operas
G
Giovanni Alberto Ristori
1692 – 1753
1 opera
G
Giovanni Andrea Bontempi
1 opera
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
1710 – 1736
7 operas
Giovanni Bononcini
1670 – 1747
2 operas
Giovanni Legrenzi
1626 – 1690
3 operas
Giovanni Pacini
6 operas
Giovanni Paisiello
1740 – 1816
2 operas
Giselher Klebe
10 operas
Giulio Caccini
1551 – 1618
2 operas
G
Giuseppe Farinelli
3 operas
Giuseppe Gazzaniga
1743 – 1818
2 operas
Giuseppe Sarti
1729 – 1802
3 operas
Giuseppe Scarlatti
1 opera
Giuseppe Verdi
1813 – 1901
14 operas
Gottfried von Einem
1918 – 1996
3 operas
G
Gregory Spears
2 operas
Gustav Holst
1874 – 1934
1 opera
Gustave Charpentier
1860 – 1956
1 opera
Hamish MacCunn
1868 – 1916
1 opera
Hans Gál
1890 – 1987
2 operas
Hans Krása
1899 – 1944
1 opera
Hans Pfitzner
1869 – 1949
4 operas
Hans Werner Henze
1926 – 2012
10 operas
Harold Fraser-Simson
1872 – 1944
1 opera
Harrison Birtwistle
1934 – 2022
2 operas
Harry Somers
1 opera
Hector Berlioz
1803 – 1869
4 operas
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber
1644 – 1704
1 opera
Heinrich Marschner
1795 – 1861
4 operas
Henri Desmarets
1661 – 1741
2 operas
Henrique Oswald
1852 – 1931
2 operas
Henry Février
1875 – 1957
1 opera
Henry Kimball Hadley
4 operas
Henry Purcell
1659 – 1695
4 operas
Hermann Goetz
1840 – 1876
1 opera
Hervé
4 operas
Huang Ruo
1976 –
2 operas
H
Hugo Weisgall
1 opera
Hugo Wolf
1860 – 1903
1 opera
Héctor Panizza
1 opera
I
Ignaz Holzbauer
1711 – 1783
2 operas
Ildebrando Pizzetti
1880 – 1968
6 operas
Irmin Schmidt
1 opera
Isaac Albéniz
1860 – 1909
1 opera
Isidore de Lara
1858 – 1935
1 opera
J
Jack Beeson
1 opera
Jacopo Foroni
1 opera
Jacopo Peri
1561 – 1633
2 operas
Jacques Offenbach
1819 – 1880
31 operas
Jake Heggie
3 operas
Jakov Gotovac
1 opera
Jean Gilbert
1879 – 1942
1 opera
Jean-Baptiste Lully
1632 – 1687
8 operas
Jean-Benjamin de La Borde
1734 – 1794
3 operas
Jean-François Le Sueur
1760 – 1837
1 opera
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville
1711 – 1772
2 operas
J
Jean-Joseph Mouret
1682 – 1738
1 opera
Jean-Philippe Rameau
1683 – 1764
14 operas
Jeanine Tesori
2 operas
Jennifer Higdon
1 opera
Jenő Hubay
1858 – 1937
1 opera
Jenő Huszka
3 operas
Joaquín Gaztambide
2 operas
Joaquín Turina
1882 – 1949
1 opera
Johann Adam Hiller
1728 – 1804
2 operas
Johann Adolf Hasse
1699 – 1783
8 operas
Johann André
1741 – 1799
2 operas
Johann Christian Bach
1735 – 1782
1 opera
J
Johann Christoph Vogel
1756 – 1788
2 operas
Johann Friedrich Reichardt
1752 – 1814
1 opera
Johann Rudolf Zumsteeg
1760 – 1802
1 opera
Johann Strauss II
1825 – 1899
9 operas
John Adams (composer)
6 operas
J
John Barnett
2 operas
John Rutter
1 opera
J
Jonathan Dove
2 operas
Jorge Peña Hen
1 opera
Jorma Panula
1 opera
Josef Mysliveček
17 operas
Joseph Bodin de Boismortier
1689 – 1755
1 opera
Joseph Haydn
1732 – 1809
11 operas
Joseph Weigl
1766 – 1846
1 opera
J
José Serrano
1 opera
J
Judith Weir
3 operas
Jules Massenet
1842 – 1912
11 operas
Jörg Widmann
2 operas
Kaija Saariaho
1952 – 2023
3 operas
Karl Goldmark
1830 – 1915
1 opera
Karl Michael Ziehrer
1 opera
Karl-Birger Blomdahl
1916 – 1968
1 opera
Karlheinz Stockhausen
1928 – 2007
4 operas
Karol Kurpiński
1 opera
Karol Lipiński
1790 – 1861
1 opera
Karol Szymanowski
1882 – 1937
2 operas
Krzysztof Meyer
1972 – 1975
1 opera
Krzysztof Penderecki
1933 – 2020
1 opera
Kurt Weill
1900 – 1950
8 operas
L
Laura Kaminsky
1 opera
Leevi Madetoja
1887 – 1947
1 opera
L
Lennox Berkeley
1903 – 1989
1 opera
Leo Fall
1873 – 1925
2 operas
Leonard Bernstein
1918 – 1990
2 operas
Leonardo Leo
1694 – 1744
4 operas
Leonardo Vinci
1690 – 1730
5 operas
Leoš Janáček
1854 – 1928
4 operas
L
Lewis Spratlan
1940 – 2023
1 opera
Lorenzo Ferrero
4 operas
Lorin Maazel
1930 – 2014
1 opera
Louis Andriessen
1939 – 2021
2 operas
L
Louis Grabu
1 opera
Louis Lacoste
3 operas
Louis Spohr
1784 – 1859
2 operas
Louise Bertin
3 operas
Luciano Berio
1925 – 2003
1 opera
Ludwig van Beethoven
1770 – 1827
2 operas
Luigi Cherubini
1760 – 1842
8 operas
Luigi Dallapiccola
1904 – 1975
1 opera
Luigi Nono
1924 – 1990
2 operas
Luigi Rossi
1 opera
Léo Delibes
1836 – 1891
4 operas
Maksym Berezovsky
1 opera
M
Malcolm Williamson
1931 – 2003
1 opera
M
Manuel Manrique de Lara
1 opera
Manuel Penella
1 opera
Manuel de Falla
1876 – 1946
4 operas
Marc Blitzstein
1905 – 1964
2 operas
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1643 – 1704
3 operas
M
Marcel Mihalovici
1898 – 1985
1 opera
Marco Marazzoli
1 opera
Marin Marais
1656 – 1728
3 operas
Marjan Kozina
1 opera
M
Mark Adamo
1 opera
Mark-Anthony Turnage
4 operas
Mary Anne à Beckett
1815 – 1863
1 opera
Matthew Aucoin
2 operas
Maurice Ravel
1875 – 1937
2 operas
Max Bruch
1838 – 1920
2 operas
Meredith Monk
1 opera
Meyer Lutz
2 operas
Michael Arne
1 opera
Michael Balfe
1808 – 1870
2 operas
Michael Daugherty
1 opera
Michael Nyman
1 opera
M
Michael Tippett
1905 – 1998
1 opera
M
Michel Pignolet de Montéclair
1 opera
Michele Carafa
1 opera
Mieczysław Weinberg
1919 – 1996
2 operas
M
Miguel Marqués
2 operas
Mikhail Glinka
1804 – 1857
1 opera
M
Miki Minoru
1930 – 2011
2 operas
Missy Mazzoli
1 opera
Modest Mussorgsky
1839 – 1881
2 operas
M
Moya Henderson
1 opera
Myroslav Skoryk
1938 – 2020
1 opera
Ned Rorem
1923 – 2022
1 opera
Niccolò Jommelli
1714 – 1774
5 operas
Niccolò Piccinni
1728 – 1800
4 operas
Nicholas Lens
1 opera
N
Nico Dostal
4 operas
Nicola De Giosa
1 opera
Nicola Porpora
1686 – 1768
5 operas
Nicola Vaccai
2 operas
Nicolae Bretan
4 operas
Nicolas Dalayrac
3 operas
Nicolas Isouard
1773 – 1818
1 opera
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
1844 – 1908
3 operas
Nino Rota
1911 – 1979
2 operas
Ofer Ben-Amots
1 opera
Olli Kortekangas
1 opera
O
Oscar Straus
2 operas
O
Otar Taktakishvili
1924 – 1989
1 opera
Othmar Schoeck
1886 – 1957
1 opera
Otto Nicolai
2 operas
Ottorino Respighi
1879 – 1936
7 operas
Pablo Sorozábal
1 opera
P
Pascal Collasse
4 operas
Pasquale Anfossi
1727 – 1797
2 operas
Paul Abraham
1892 – 1960
1 opera
Paul Dessau
1894 – 1979
2 operas
Paul Dukas
1865 – 1935
1 opera
Paul Hindemith
1895 – 1963
4 operas
Pauline Viardot
1821 – 1910
1 opera
Pavlos Carrer
1 opera
Per Nørgård
1932 – 2025
2 operas
Peter Cornelius
1824 – 1874
1 opera
Peter Eötvös
1944 – 2024
1 opera
Peter Heise
1 opera
Peter Josef von Lindpaintner
1791 – 1856
2 operas
Peter Maxwell Davies
1934 – 2016
2 operas
Philip Glass
9 operas
Philip Michael Faraday
1 opera
P
Philippe Boesmans
1936 – 2022
2 operas
Pierre Gaveaux
1 opera
Pierre-Alexandre Monsigny
1 opera
Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi
1728 – 1804
4 operas
Pietro Generali
1 opera
Pietro Mascagni
1863 – 1945
7 operas
Poul Ruders
1 opera
P
Premasiri Khemadasa
1 opera
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1840 – 1893
4 operas
Ralph Benatzky
1884 – 1957
2 operas
Ralph Lyford
1882 – 1927
1 opera
Ralph Vaughan Williams
1872 – 1958
1 opera
Reginald De Koven
1859 – 1920
1 opera
Reinhard Keiser
1674 – 1739
1 opera
Reynaldo Hahn
1874 – 1947
3 operas
Riccardo Zandonai
3 operas
R
Richard Danielpour
1 opera
R
Richard Mills
1 opera
Richard Strauss
1864 – 1949
14 operas
Richard Wagner
1813 – 1883
8 operas
Ricky Ian Gordon
2 operas
R
Robert Ward
1 opera
Robert Xavier Rodriguez
2 operas
Rodion Shchedrin
1932 – 2025
4 operas
Roger Sessions
1896 – 1985
1 opera
R
Rudolf Brucci
1 opera
Rudolf Friml
1879 – 1972
1 opera
Rudolf Kelterborn
1931 – 2021
1 opera
Rufus Wainwright
1 opera
Ruggero Leoncavallo
1857 – 1919
6 operas
Ruperto Chapí
1 opera
R
Rutland Boughton
1878 – 1960
1 opera
Salvatore Sciarrino
1 opera
S
Samuel Arnold
1 opera
Samuel Barber
1910 – 1981
2 operas
Saverio Mercadante
1795 – 1870
10 operas
S
Scott Davenport Richards
1 opera
Scott Joplin
1868 – 1917
1 opera
Sergei Prokofiev
1891 – 1953
1 opera
Sergei Rachmaninoff
1873 – 1943
2 operas
Sergei Taneyev
1856 – 1915
1 opera
Siegfried Wagner
2 operas
Simon Mayr
1763 – 1845
14 operas
Somtow Sucharitkul
2 operas
Spyros Samaras
1861 – 1917
1 opera
Stanisław Moniuszko
1819 – 1872
3 operas
Stefano Landi
1587 – 1639
1 opera
Stephen Storace
3 operas
S
Stewart Wallace
1 opera
Tan Dun
1 opera
Terence Blanchard
2 operas
Thea Musgrave
2 operas
Thomas Arne
4 operas
Thomas German Reed
2 operas
T
Thomas Pasatieri
2 operas
Tobias Picker
5 operas
T
Tom Wiggall
1 opera
Tomaso Albinoni
1671 – 1751
2 operas
Tommaso Traetta
4 operas
T
Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco
1 opera
T
Toussaint Bertin de la Doué
2 operas
Udo Zimmermann
1943 – 2021
2 operas
Umberto Giordano
5 operas
U
Unsuk Chin
1 opera
Uzeyir Hajibeyov
1885 – 1948
5 operas
Vicente Martín y Soler
1754 – 1806
1 opera
Victor Herbert
1859 – 1924
6 operas
Viktor Nessler
2 operas
Viktor Ullmann
1898 – 1944
1 opera
Vincent d'Indy
1851 – 1931
1 opera
Vincenzo Bellini
1801 – 1835
4 operas
Virgil Thomson
1896 – 1989
1 opera
Vladimir Cosma
1 opera
Walter Braunfels
2 operas
Walter Damrosch
1862 – 1950
1 opera
W
Walter Goetze
1883 – 1961
2 operas
W
Werner Egk
6 operas
Wilhelm Kienzl
1857 – 1941
3 operas
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
1 opera
Will Meisel
1 opera
William Bolcom
2 operas
William Grant Still
1895 – 1978
2 operas
W
William Michael Rooke
1 opera
William Vincent Wallace
1812 – 1865
3 operas
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1756 – 1791
12 operas
W
Wolfgang Fortner
2 operas
Wolfgang Rihm
1952 – 2024
4 operas
Xavier Leroux
2 operas
Zdeněk Fibich
1850 – 1900
2 operas
Zoltán Kodály
1882 – 1967
1 opera
Zulfugar Hajibeyov
1884 – 1950
1 opera
m
multiple composers
18 operas
women composers
2 operas
Édouard Lalo
1823 – 1892
2 operas
Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
1 opera
Étienne Méhul
14 operas
