The development of opera through the ages
The Baroque era. Claudio Monteverdi ; (Pietro) Francesco Cavalli ; Henry Purcell ; Jean-Philippe Rameau ; George Frideric Handel
The Classical era. Christoph Willibald von Gluck ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; Haydn and the rest
The Romantic era. Gioachino Rossini ; Gaetano Donizetti ; Vincenzo Bellini ; Giuseppe Verdi ; Carl Maria von Weber ; Richard Wagner ; Giacomo Meyerbeer ; Jacques Offenbach ; Hector Berlioz ; Charles Gounod ; (Charles) Camille Saint-Saëns ; Georges Bizet ; Jules Massenet ; Mikhail Glinka ; Modest Musorgsky ; Pyotr Tchaikovsky ; Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov ; Bedřich Smetana
The late Romantics. Pietro Mascagni ; Ruggero Leoncavallo ; Giacomo Puccini ; Engelbert Humperdinck ; Richard Strauss ; (Achille-)Claude Debussy ; Leoš Janáček ; The rest of the late Romantics
20th century and beyond. Arnold Schoenberg ; Alban Berg ; Kurt Weill ; Hans Werne Henze ; Igor Stravinsky ; Sergey Prokofiev ; Dmitri Shostakovich ; Béla Bartók ; Maurice Ravel ; Ralph Vaughan Williams ; William Walton ; Michael Tippett ; Benjamin Britten ; Thea Musgrave ; Harrison Birtwhistle ; Peter Maxwell Davies ; Judith Weir ; Thomas Adès ; George Gershwin ; Samuel Barber ; Philip Glass ; John Adams ; More opera composers of the 20th century and beyond
Opera houses and festivals.
