By Decade of Premiere
Operas of the 1950s
42 operas catalogued · listed by premiere year.
- 1950 David Bek by Armen Tigranian, 1950 Armen Tigranian Armenian
- 1950 I due timidi by Nino Rota, 1950 Nino Rota Italian
- 1950 Il prigioniero by Luigi Dallapiccola, 1950 Luigi Dallapiccola Italian
- 1951 Amahl and the Night Visitors by Gian Carlo Menotti, 1951 Gian Carlo Menotti English
- 1951 Billy Budd by Benjamin Britten, 1951 Benjamin Britten English
- 1951 Die Verurteilung des Lukullus by Paul Dessau, 1951 Paul Dessau German
- 1951 Giants in the Earth by Douglas Moore, 1951 Douglas Moore English
- 1951 Ivan IV by Georges Bizet, 1951 Georges Bizet French
- 1951 L'anima del filosofo by Joseph Haydn, 1951 Joseph Haydn Italian
- 1952 Anna Kraus by Franz Reizenstein, 1952 Franz Reizenstein English
- 1952 Boulevard Solitude by Hans Werner Henze, 1952 Hans Werner Henze
- 1952 Die Liebe der Danae by Richard Strauss, 1952 Richard Strauss German
- 1953 Der Prozeß by Gottfried von Einem, 1953 Gottfried von Einem German
- 1953 Gloriana by Benjamin Britten, 1953 Benjamin Britten English
- 1953 Irmelin by Frederick Delius, 1953 Frederick Delius English
- 1954 Die stumme Serenade by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, 1954 Erich Wolfgang Korngold German
- 1954 Goce by unknown composer, 1954 n/a Macedonian
- 1955 David by Darius Milhaud, 1955 Darius Milhaud French
- 1955 Die Schule der Frauen by unknown composer, 1955 n/a
- 1955 Du style galant au style méchant by unknown composer, 1955 n/a
- 1955 Il cappello di paglia di Firenze by Nino Rota, 1955 Nino Rota Italian
- 1955 Irische Legende by Werner Egk, 1955 Werner Egk German
- 1956 Candide by Leonard Bernstein, 1956 Leonard Bernstein English
- 1956 Der Sturm by unknown composer, 1956 n/a German
- 1956 Equinox by Marjan Kozina, 1956 Marjan Kozina Slovene
- 1956 He Who Gets Slapped by Robert Ward, 1956 Robert Ward English
- 1957 Bluthochzeit by Wolfgang Fortner, 1957 Wolfgang Fortner German
- 1957 Der Revisor by Werner Egk, 1957 Werner Egk German
- 1957 Dialogues of the Carmelites by Francis Poulenc, 1957 Francis Poulenc French
- 1957 Die Harmonie der Welt by Paul Hindemith, 1957 Paul Hindemith German
- 1957 Die Räuber by Giselher Klebe, 1957 Giselher Klebe
- 1957 Forest Song by unknown composer, 1957 n/a Ukrainian
- 1957 Noli Me Tangere by unknown composer, 1957 n/a Tagalog
- 1958 Assassinio nella cattedrale by Ildebrando Pizzetti, 1958 Ildebrando Pizzetti Italian
- 1958 Destiny by Leoš Janáček, 1958 Leoš Janáček Czech
- 1958 Gallantry by Douglas Moore, 1958 Douglas Moore
- 1958 Juha by unknown composer, 1958 n/a Finnish
- 1959 A Hand of Bridge by Samuel Barber, 1959 Samuel Barber English
- 1959 Aniara by Karl-Birger Blomdahl, 1959 Karl-Birger Blomdahl Swedish
- 1959 Die Ermordung Cäsars by Giselher Klebe, 1959 Giselher Klebe
- 1959 La Voix humaine by Francis Poulenc, 1959 Francis Poulenc French
- 1959 Moscow, Cheryomushki by Dmitri Shostakovich, 1959 Dmitri Shostakovich