Opera Books
Significant French Operas
Operas by Composer
By Date: 18th Century
Operas by Title
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Destouches’s
Omphale
10 November 1700
Marais’
Alcione
18 February 1706
de Montéclair’s
Jephté
28 February 1732
Rameau’s
Hippolyte et Aricie
1 October 1733
Rameau’s
Castor et Pollux
24 October 1737
Rameau’s
Dardanus
19 November 1739
Rameau’s
Zoroastre
5 December 1749
Rousseau’s
Le Devin du village
19 October 1752
Duni’s
Le Caprice amoureux
12 February 1755
Duni’s
L’Isle des foux
29 December 1760
Monsigny’s
On ne s’avise jamais de tout
14 September 1761
Monsigny’s
Le Roi et le fermier
22 November 1762
Monsigny’s
Rose et Colas
8 March 1764
Philidor’s
Tom Jones
25 February 1765
Duni’s
La Fee Urgele
26 October 1765
Monsigny’s
Le Deserteur
6 March 1769
Grétry’s
Le Tableau parlant
20 September 1769
Grétry’s
Zemire et Azor
9 November 1771
Gluck’s
Iphigenie en Aulide
19 April 1774
Dezède’s
Les Trois Fermiers
24 May 1777
Gluck’s
Armide
23 September 1777
Gluck’s
Iphigenie en Tauride
18 May 1779
Gluck’s
Echo et Narcisse
24 September 1779
Grétry’s
Richard, Coeur de Lion
21 October 1784
Dalayrac’s
Nina
15 May 1786
Dalayrac’s
Les Deux petits savoyards
14 January 1789
Méhul
Euphroise
4 September 1790
Cherubini’s
Lodoiska
18 July 1791
Méhul’s
Stratonice
3 May 1792
Le Sueur’s
La Caverne
16 February 1793
Steibert’s
Romeo et Juliette
9 October 1793
Le Sueur’s
Paul et Virginie
13 January 1794
Le Sueur’s
Telemaque
10 May 1794
Cherubini’s
Eliza
13 December 1794
Cherubini’s
Medee
13 March 1797
Della Maria’s
Le Prisonnier
29 January 1798
Berton’s
Montano et Stephanie
15 April 1799
Méhul’s
Ariodante
11 October 1799
Berton’s
Le Délire
7 December 1799
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Last updated: January 10, 2008