12. Turandot by Giacomo Puccini
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Title: Le villi
Premiered: Milan , Teatro dal Verme, May 31, 1884
leggenda drammatica; libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, after Alphonse Karr's Les willis

Title: Edgar
Premiered: Milan , Teatro alla Scala, April 21, 1889
dramma lirico; libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, after Alfred de Musset's La coupe et les lèvres

Title: Manon Lescaut
Premiered: Turin , Teatro Regio, February 1, 1893
dramma lirico; libretto by Domenico Oliva and Luigi Illica, after Abbé Prévost's L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut

Title: La bohème
Prmiered: Turin , Teatro Regio, February 1, 1896
opera; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after Henry Murger's Scènes de la vie de bohème

Title: Tosca
Premiered: Rome , Teatro Costanzi, January 14, 1900
melodramma; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, after Victorien Sardou's La Tosca

Title: Madama Butterfly Milan , Teatro alla Scala, Feburary 17, 1904
Premiered: tragedia giapponese; libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa,
after David Belasco's stage version of a story by John Luther Long

Title: La fanciulla del West
Premiered: New York , Metropolitan Opera, December 10, 1910
(The Girl of the Golden West) opera; libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini,
after David Belasco's The Girl of the Golden West

Title: La rondine
Premiered: Monte Carlo , Opéra, March 27, 1917
(The Swallow) commedia lirica; libretto by Giuseppe Adami, after Alfred Maria Willner and Heinz Reichert

Title: Il trittico
Premiered: New York , Metropolitan Opera, December 14, 1918
(The Triptych) three one act operas
•  Il tabarro (The Cloak); libretto by Giuseppe Adami, after Didier Gold's La houppelande
•  Suor Angelica (Sister Angelica); libretto by Giovacchino Forzano
•  Gianni Schicchi; libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, developed from a few lines in Dante's Inferno

TItle: Turandot
Premiered: Milan , Teatro alla Scala, April 25, 1926
dramma lirico; Giuseppe Adami and Renato Simoni, after Carlo Gozzi

Courtesy of Minnesota Opera


1. Madama Butterfly
2. La bohème
3. La traviata
4. Carmen
5. The Barber of Seville
6. The Marriage of Figaro
7. Don Giovanni
8. Tosca
9. Rigoletto
10. The Magic Flute
11. La Cenerentola
12. Turandot
13. Lucia di Lammermoor
14. Pagliacci
15. Cosî fan tutte
16. Aida
17. Il trovatore
18. Faust
19. Die Fledermaus
20. The Elixir of Love