Operas, Musicals, and Composers

Title Genre Creator Date
Aida Opera Giuseppe Verdi 1871
Carmen Opera Georges Bizet 1845
Messiah Oratorio George Frideric Handel 1741
Appalachian Spring Ballet Aaron Copland 1944
Symphony No. 6, "Pastoral" Symphony Ludwig van Beethoven 1808
Rigoletto Opera Giuseppe Verdi 1851
The Marriage of Figaro Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1784
The Ring of the Nibelung Opera (Wilhelm) Richard Wagner 1876
Symphonie fantastique Symphony (Louis-)Hector Berlioz 1830
Don Giovanni Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1787
The Rite of Spring Ballet Igor (Fyodorovich)
Stravinsky
1913
William Tell Opera Gioacchino Rossini 1804
Madama Butterfly Opera Giacomo (Antonio Domenico
Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini
1904
The Magic Flute Opera Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1791
La Bohème Opera Giacomo (Antonio Domenico
Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini
1896
The Nutcracker Ballet Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1892
The Four Seasons Concerto Antonio Vivaldi 1725
Fidelio Opera Ludwig van Beethoven 1805
Rhapsody in Blue composition George Gershwin 1924
Symphony No. 3, "Eroica" Symphony Ludwig van Beethoven 1804
The Song of the Earth Symphony Gustav Mahler 1909
West Side Story Musical Leonard Bernstein 1957
The Planets Suite Gustav(us Theodore von) Holst 1918
The Phantom of the Opera Musical Andrew Lloyd Webber 1910
Moonlight Sonata Sonata Ludwig van Beethoven 1801
Symphony No. 9, "Great" Symphony Franz (Peter) Schubert 1825
Boléro composition (Joseph) Maurice Ravel 1928
Porgy and Bess Opera George Gershwin 1935
The Mikado Musical William S. Gilbert (words)
and Arthur Sullivan (music)
1885
The Flying Dutchman Opera (Wilhelm) Richard Wagner 1843
Amahl and the Night Visitors Opera Gian-Carlo Menotti 1951
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini composition Sergey (Vasilyevich) Rachmaninov 1934
Peter and the Wolf composition Sergei (Sergeyevich) Prokofiev 1936
A German Requiem Sacred choral work Johannes Brahms 1868
Symphony No. 6, "Pathétique" Symphony Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1893
Falstaff Opera Giuseppe Verdi 1893
Turandot Opera Giacomo (Antonio Domenico
Michele Secondo Maria) Puccini
1762
Cats Musical Andrew Lloyd Webber 1982
Pictures at an Exhibition composition Modest (Petrovich) Mussorgsky 1874
Carmina Burana Cantata Carl Orff 1936
Boris Godunov Opera Modest (Petrovich) Mussorgsky 1869
Symphony No. 41, "Jupiter" Symphony Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1788
Symphony of a Thousand Symphony Gustav Mahler 1907
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun Ballet (Achille-)Claude Debussy 1894
Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" Symphony Antonín (Leopold) Dvorák 1893
Symphony No. 9, "Choral" Symphony Ludwig van Beethoven 1823
Salome Opera Richard (Georg) Strauss 1905
La Traviata Opera Giuseppe Verdi 1853
Hungarian Rhapsodies composition Franz Liszt 1846
The Threepenny Opera Opera Kurt Weill 1928


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