By Decade of Premiere
Operas of the 1980s
28 operas catalogued · listed by premiere year.
- 1980 Antikrist by unknown composer, 1980 n/a Danish
- 1980 Der Traumgörge by Alexander Zemlinsky, 1980 Alexander Zemlinsky
- 1980 El poeta by unknown composer, 1980 n/a Spanish
- 1980 Kopernikus by unknown composer, 1980 n/a French
- 1981 La figlia del mago by Lorenzo Ferrero, 1981 Lorenzo Ferrero Italian
- 1982 Arald by Nicolae Bretan, 1982 Nicolae Bretan Romanian
- 1982 Die wundersame Schustersfrau by Udo Zimmermann, 1982 Udo Zimmermann German
- 1982 Les Boréades by Jean-Philippe Rameau, 1982 Jean-Philippe Rameau French
- 1983 A Quiet Place by Leonard Bernstein, 1983 Leonard Bernstein English
- 1983 Congratulations! by Mieczysław Weinberg, 1983 Mieczysław Weinberg
- 1984 Akhnaten by Philip Glass, 1984 Philip Glass Egyptian
- 1984 Der Kirschgarten by Rudolf Kelterborn, 1984 Rudolf Kelterborn
- 1984 Die Gespenstersonate by Aribert Reimann, 1984 Aribert Reimann German
- 1984 Kuningas lähtee Ranskaan by Aulis Sallinen, 1984 Aulis Sallinen
- 1984 La Loba Negra by unknown composer, 1984 n/a
- 1985 Behold the Sun by Alexander Goehr, 1985 Alexander Goehr
- 1985 Der Goggolori by unknown composer, 1985 n/a German
- 1985 Frederick Douglass by unknown composer, 1985 n/a English
- 1985 Jōruri by Miki Minoru, 1985 Miki Minoru Japanese
- 1985 König Hirsch by Hans Werner Henze, 1985 Hans Werner Henze German
- 1986 Die schwarze Maske by Krzysztof Penderecki, 1986 Krzysztof Penderecki German
- 1986 Gilgamesh by Rudolf Brucci, 1986 Rudolf Brucci
- 1986 L'écume des jours by unknown composer, 1986 n/a French
- 1987 A Night at the Chinese Opera by Judith Weir, 1987 Judith Weir English
- 1987 Bettina by unknown composer, 1987 n/a
- 1987 Gernika by Francisco Escudero, 1987 Francisco Escudero Basque
- 1988 Beatrice Cenci by Berthold Goldschmidt, 1988 Berthold Goldschmidt English
- 1989 Charlotte Corday by Lorenzo Ferrero, 1989 Lorenzo Ferrero Italian