Opera composers
A
Adolphe Adam
John Adams
Thomas Adès
Kalevi Aho
Domenico Alaleona
Isaac Albéniz
Franco Alfano
William Alwyn
Louis Andriessen
George Antheil
Thomas Augustin Arne
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
B
Leonardo Balada
Michael Balfe
Sir Granville Bantock
Samuel Barber
Gerald Barry
Béla Bartók
Amy Beach
Reinhold Becker
Ludwig van Beethoven
Vincenzo Bellini
Georg Anton Benda
George Benjamin
Alban Berg
Erik Bergman
Luciano Berio
Michael Berkeley
Sir Lennox Berkeley
Hector Berlioz
Leonard Bernstein
Heinrich Ignaz Biber
Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Georges Bizet
Sir Arthur Bliss
Ernest Bloch
Vilém Blodek
Karl-Birger Blomdahl
John Blow
Luigi Boccherini
Arrigo Boito
William Bolcom
Alexander Borodin
Rutland Boughton
François-Adrian Boïeldieu
Walther Braunfels
Thomas Bretòn
Havergal Brian
Benjamin Britten
August Bungert
Ferruccio Busoni
Hakon Børresen
C
Elliott Carter
Alfredo Catalani
Daniel Catán
Francesco Cavalli
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Gustave Charpentier
Ernest Chausson
Luigi Cherubini
Francesco Cilea
Aaron Copland
Frederick Hymen Cowen
D
Eugen D'Albert
Vincent D'Indy
Luigi Dallapiccola
M
Peter Maxwell Davies
D
Brett Dean
Claude Debussy
Léo Delibes
Frederick Delius
Gaetano Donizetti
Jonathan Dove
Paul Dukas
Tan Dun
Antonín Dvorák
E
Gottfried von Einem
Jozef Elsner
George Enescu
Peter Eötvös
F
Manuel de Falla
Gabriel Fauré
Carlisle Floyd
Lukas Foss
Harold Fraser-Simon
G
Giuseppe Gazzaniga
Sir Edward German
Jan van Gilse
Umberto Giordano
Philip Glass
Mikhail Glinka
Christoph Gluck
Karl Goldmark
Osvaldo Golijov
Charles Gounod
Théodore Gouvy
Louis Gruenberg
Adolphe Adam
John Adams
Thomas Adès
Kalevi Aho
Domenico Alaleona
Isaac Albéniz
Franco Alfano
William Alwyn
Louis Andriessen
George Antheil
Thomas Augustin Arne
Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
B
Leonardo Balada
Michael Balfe
Sir Granville Bantock
Samuel Barber
Gerald Barry
Béla Bartók
Amy Beach
Reinhold Becker
Ludwig van Beethoven
Vincenzo Bellini
Georg Anton Benda
George Benjamin
Alban Berg
Erik Bergman
Luciano Berio
Michael Berkeley
Sir Lennox Berkeley
Hector Berlioz
Leonard Bernstein
Heinrich Ignaz Biber
Sir Harrison Birtwistle
Georges Bizet
Sir Arthur Bliss
Ernest Bloch
Vilém Blodek
Karl-Birger Blomdahl
John Blow
Luigi Boccherini
Arrigo Boito
William Bolcom
Alexander Borodin
Rutland Boughton
François-Adrian Boïeldieu
Walther Braunfels
Thomas Bretòn
Havergal Brian
Benjamin Britten
August Bungert
Ferruccio Busoni
Hakon Børresen
C
Elliott Carter
Alfredo Catalani
Daniel Catán
Francesco Cavalli
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Gustave Charpentier
Ernest Chausson
Luigi Cherubini
Francesco Cilea
Aaron Copland
Frederick Hymen Cowen
D
Eugen D'Albert
Vincent D'Indy
Luigi Dallapiccola
M
Peter Maxwell Davies
D
Brett Dean
Claude Debussy
Léo Delibes
Frederick Delius
Gaetano Donizetti
Jonathan Dove
Paul Dukas
Tan Dun
Antonín Dvorák
E
Gottfried von Einem
Jozef Elsner
George Enescu
Peter Eötvös
F
Manuel de Falla
Gabriel Fauré
Carlisle Floyd
Lukas Foss
Harold Fraser-Simon
G
Giuseppe Gazzaniga
Sir Edward German
Jan van Gilse
Umberto Giordano
Philip Glass
Mikhail Glinka
Christoph Gluck
Karl Goldmark
Osvaldo Golijov
Charles Gounod
Théodore Gouvy
Louis Gruenberg
H
Henry Hadley
Daron Hagen
Reynaldo Hahn
Cristóbal Halffter
Ivar Christian Hallström
Jacques François Halévy
George Frideric Handel
John Harbison
Joseph Haydn
Mikko Heiniö
Hans Werner Henze
Paul Hindemith
Ignaz Holzbauer
Arthur Honegger
Engelbert Humperdinck
Alois Hába
J
Leoš Janáček
Alan John
Scott Joplin
K
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Johannes Kalitzke
Reinhard Keiser
Wilhelm Kienzl
Lars Klit
Oliver Knussen
Zoltán Kodály
Joonas Kokkonen
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Olli Kortekangas
Ernst Krenek
Meyer Kupferman
Robert Kurka
Bronius Kutavicius
Emmerich Kálmán
Imre Kálmán
L
Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann
László Lajtha
Edouard Lalo
Rued Langgaard
Armas Launis
Sylvio Lazzari
Franz Lehár
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
György Ligeti
Jean-Baptiste Lully
M
Leevi Madetoja
Jef Maes
Bohuslav Martinu
Tauno Marttinen
Pietro Mascagni
Jules Massenet
Simon Mayr
Toshiro Mayuzumi
Erkki Melartin
Gian Carlo Menotti
Saverio Mercadante
Aarre Merikanto
Olivier Messiaen
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Darius Milhaud
Stanislaw Moniuszko
Italo Montemezzi
Claudio Monteverdi
Douglas Moore
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Modest Mussorgsky
N
Viktor Nessler
Olga Neuwirth
Otto Nicolai
Carl Nielsen
Michael Nyman
Per Nørgård
O
Jacques Offenbach
Poul Rovsing Olsen
Carl Orff
P
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
John Knowles Paine
Giovanni Paisiello
Krzysztof Penderecki
Dusapin Perelà
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Felix Petyrek
Tobias Picker
Amilcare Ponchielli
Francis Poulenc
André Previn
Alex Prior
Rudolph Baron Prochazka
Sergei Prokofiev
Giacomo Puccini
Paul Puget
Henry Purcell
Tauno Pylkkänen
Henry Hadley
Daron Hagen
Reynaldo Hahn
Cristóbal Halffter
Ivar Christian Hallström
Jacques François Halévy
George Frideric Handel
John Harbison
Joseph Haydn
Mikko Heiniö
Hans Werner Henze
Paul Hindemith
Ignaz Holzbauer
Arthur Honegger
Engelbert Humperdinck
Alois Hába
J
Leoš Janáček
Alan John
Scott Joplin
K
Dmitri Kabalevsky
Johannes Kalitzke
Reinhard Keiser
Wilhelm Kienzl
Lars Klit
Oliver Knussen
Zoltán Kodály
Joonas Kokkonen
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Olli Kortekangas
Ernst Krenek
Meyer Kupferman
Robert Kurka
Bronius Kutavicius
Emmerich Kálmán
Imre Kálmán
L
Helmut Friedrich Lachenmann
László Lajtha
Edouard Lalo
Rued Langgaard
Armas Launis
Sylvio Lazzari
Franz Lehár
Ruggiero Leoncavallo
György Ligeti
Jean-Baptiste Lully
M
Leevi Madetoja
Jef Maes
Bohuslav Martinu
Tauno Marttinen
Pietro Mascagni
Jules Massenet
Simon Mayr
Toshiro Mayuzumi
Erkki Melartin
Gian Carlo Menotti
Saverio Mercadante
Aarre Merikanto
Olivier Messiaen
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Darius Milhaud
Stanislaw Moniuszko
Italo Montemezzi
Claudio Monteverdi
Douglas Moore
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Modest Mussorgsky
N
Viktor Nessler
Olga Neuwirth
Otto Nicolai
Carl Nielsen
Michael Nyman
Per Nørgård
O
Jacques Offenbach
Poul Rovsing Olsen
Carl Orff
P
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
John Knowles Paine
Giovanni Paisiello
Krzysztof Penderecki
Dusapin Perelà
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Felix Petyrek
Tobias Picker
Amilcare Ponchielli
Francis Poulenc
André Previn
Alex Prior
Rudolph Baron Prochazka
Sergei Prokofiev
Giacomo Puccini
Paul Puget
Henry Purcell
Tauno Pylkkänen
R
Sergei Rachmaninov
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Maurice Ravel
Johann Friedrich Reichardt
Aribert Reimann
Ottorino Resphigi
Ernest Reyer
E. Nikolaus von Reznicek
Emil Nikolaus Reznicek
Wolfgang Rihm
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
George Rochberg
Joseph Guy Ropartz
Ned Rorem
Hilding Rosenberg
Lauro Rossi
Gioachino Rossini
Nino Rota
Poul Ruders
S
Kaija Saariaho
Antonio Sacchini
Camille Saint-Saëns
Antonio Salieri
Aulis Sallinen
Poul Schierbeck
Max von Schillings
Franz Schmidt
Alfred Schnittke
Othmar Schoeck
Arnold Schoenberg
Franz Schreker
Franz Schubert
Gunther Schuller
William Schuman
Robert Schumann
Salvatore Sciarrino
Rodion K. Shchedrin
Howard Shore
Dmitri Shostakovich
Bruno Skulte
Bedrich Smetana
Dame Ethyl Smyth
Louis Spohr
Gasparo Spontini
Charles Villiers Stanford
Rudi Stephan
William Grant Still
Johann Strauss
Richard Strauss
Igor Stravinsky
Piet Swerts
Karol Szymanowski
T
Eino Tamberg
Sergei Taneyev
Alexander Tansman
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Georg Philipp Telemann
Flavio Testi
Mikis Theodorakis
Ambroise Thomas
Virgil Thomson
Ludwig Thuille
Kari Tikka
Michael Tippett
Boris Tishchenko
Federico Moreno Torroba
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Geirr Tveitt
V
Nicola Vaccai
Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco
Giuseppe Verdi
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Antonio Vivaldi
W
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Wagner
Sir William Walton
Robert Ward
Carl Maria von Weber
Karl Weigl
Kurt Weill
Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Judith Weir
Hugo Weisgall
V
Ralph Vaughan Williams
W
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Felix Woyrsch
Y
Kosaku Yamada
James Yannatos
Z
Riccardo Zandonai
Alexander Zemlinsky
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Sergei Rachmaninov
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Einojuhani Rautavaara
Maurice Ravel
Johann Friedrich Reichardt
Aribert Reimann
Ottorino Resphigi
Ernest Reyer
E. Nikolaus von Reznicek
Emil Nikolaus Reznicek
Wolfgang Rihm
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
George Rochberg
Joseph Guy Ropartz
Ned Rorem
Hilding Rosenberg
Lauro Rossi
Gioachino Rossini
Nino Rota
Poul Ruders
S
Kaija Saariaho
Antonio Sacchini
Camille Saint-Saëns
Antonio Salieri
Aulis Sallinen
Poul Schierbeck
Max von Schillings
Franz Schmidt
Alfred Schnittke
Othmar Schoeck
Arnold Schoenberg
Franz Schreker
Franz Schubert
Gunther Schuller
William Schuman
Robert Schumann
Salvatore Sciarrino
Rodion K. Shchedrin
Howard Shore
Dmitri Shostakovich
Bruno Skulte
Bedrich Smetana
Dame Ethyl Smyth
Louis Spohr
Gasparo Spontini
Charles Villiers Stanford
Rudi Stephan
William Grant Still
Johann Strauss
Richard Strauss
Igor Stravinsky
Piet Swerts
Karol Szymanowski
T
Eino Tamberg
Sergei Taneyev
Alexander Tansman
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Georg Philipp Telemann
Flavio Testi
Mikis Theodorakis
Ambroise Thomas
Virgil Thomson
Ludwig Thuille
Kari Tikka
Michael Tippett
Boris Tishchenko
Federico Moreno Torroba
Mark-Anthony Turnage
Geirr Tveitt
V
Nicola Vaccai
Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco
Giuseppe Verdi
Pauline Viardot-Garcia
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Antonio Vivaldi
W
Richard Wagner
Siegfried Wagner
Sir William Walton
Robert Ward
Carl Maria von Weber
Karl Weigl
Kurt Weill
Mieczyslaw Weinberg
Judith Weir
Hugo Weisgall
V
Ralph Vaughan Williams
W
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
Felix Woyrsch
Y
Kosaku Yamada
James Yannatos
Z
Riccardo Zandonai
Alexander Zemlinsky
Bernd Alois Zimmermann