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The era immediately following the Renaissance
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Jacopo Peri's Euridice is the earliest surviving opera
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Giulio Cesare is important because it is a child of the Italian opera tradition by a German composer.
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John Gay's "anti-opera" can be considered a far precursor to modern musicals.
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Second era of the "common practice period".
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Composer of important operas such as Cosi fan tutti, Le nozze de Figaro, and Don Giovanni
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Christoph Willibald Gluck's opera is considered the first "reform" opera, breaking from the traditions of the Baroque era.
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Prolific operatic composer of the classical era. Il barbieri de Siviglia, Guillaume Tell
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The most important German operatic composer, his works were so grandiose that he had to build his own opera house to stage them. Famous for the Ring Cycle.
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Important Romantic operatic composer of Rigoletto, La traviata, and Aida.
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The third era of the "common practice period."
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Carl Maria von Weber's opera is considered a landmark and hallmark of the Romantic era.
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The first French operetta, Jacques Offenbach's work is famous for the can-can dance.
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"The most important composer of Italian opera after Verdi," he is famous for La boheme, Turandot, and Madama Butterfly.
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Aleksandr Borodin's opera is probably the most well-known of all Russian operas.
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The twentieth century is its own era in music history!
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One of the most well-known atonal operas, Berg used an unfinished play as his story.
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Gershwin's opera is notable for being jazz-influenced and for featuring an all-African American cast.
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Bernstein's Candide, based on Voltaire's novel, is a staple of modernist opera.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's controversial work is considered the first rock opera.
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Philip Glass's opera is the first in a minimalist style.
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John Adams's opera marked a return to tonalism and political themes.
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Jonathan Larson's rock opera is based on Puccini's La boheme, but replaces the fear of tuberculosis with that of AIDS.
