SFO: By Date: 19th Century


Opera Books	Significant French Operas
Operas by Composer	By Date: 19th Century
Operas by Title Opera Links	Cherubini’s Les Deux journées 16 January 1800 Méhul’s Une Folie 5 April 1802 Berton’s Aline 3 September 1803 Le Sueur’s Ossian 10 July 1804 Cherubini’s Faniska 25 February 1806 Méhul’s Uthal 17 May 1806 Méhul’s Joseph 17 February 1807 Isouard’s Les Rendez-vous bourgeois 9 May 1807 Spontiti’s La Vestale 15 December 1807 Kreutzer’s Aristippe 24 May 1808 Le Sueur’s La Mort d’Adam 21 March 1809 Isouard’s Cendrillon 22 February 1810 Kreutzer’s Abel 23 March 1810 Boieldieu’s Jean de Paris 4 April 1812 de Persius’ La Jérusalem delivrée 15 September 1812 Cherubini’s Les Abencerages 1813 Isouard’s Joconde 28 February 1814 Isouard’s Jeanne et Colin 17 October 1814 Hérold’s Le gioventu de Enrico Quinto 5 January 1815 Boieldieu’s Le Petit chaperon rouge 30 June 1818 Spontini’s Olympie 22 December 1819 Auber’s Le Macon 3 May 1825 Boieldieu’s La Dame blanche 10 December 1825 Hérold’s Marie 12 August 1826 Auber’s La Muette de Portici 29 February 1828 Auber’s Fra Diavolo 28 January 1830 Hérold’s Zampa 3 May 1831 Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable 21 November 1831 Hérold’s Le Pré aux clercs 15 December 1832 Adam’s Le Chalet 25 September 1834 Halévy’s La Juive 23 February 1835 Halévy’s L’Eclair 16 December 1835 Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots 29 February 1836 Adam’s Le Postillon de Longjumeau 13 October 1836 Thomas’ La Double echelle 23 August 1837 Auber’s Le Domino noir 2 December 1837 Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini 10 September 1838 Halévy’s La Reine de Chypre 22 December 1841 Thomas’ Le Caïd 3 January 1849 Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète 16 April 1849 Thomas’ Le Songe d’une nuit d’ete 20 April 1850 Grisar’s Bonsoir, M. Pantalon 19 April 1851 Thomas’ Raymond 5 June 1851 David’s La Perle du Bresil 22 November 1851 Massé’s Galathée 14 April 1852 Adam’s Si j’etais roi 4 September 1852 Massé’s Les Noces de Jeannette 4 February 1853 Meyerbeer’s L’Etoile du Nord 16 February 1854 Offenbach’s Ba-ta-clan 29 December 1855 Clapisson’s La Fanchonette 1 March 1856 Maillart’s Les Dragons de Villars 19 September 1856 Bazin’s Maître Pathelin 12 December 1856 Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers 21 October 1858 David’s Herculanum 4 March 1859 Gounod’s Faust 19 March 1859 Meyerbeer’s La Pardon de Ploërmel 4 April 1859 Gounod’s Philémon et Baucis 18 February 1860 Offenbach’s Le Pont de Soupirs 23 March 1861 Reyer’s La Statue 11 April 1861 David’s Lalla-Roukh 12 Ma y1862 Berlioz’s Béatrice et Bénédict 9 August 1862 Bizet’s Les Pêcheurs de perles 30 September 1863 Gounod’s Mireille 19 March 1864 Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène 17 December 1864 Meyerbeer’s L’Africaine 28 April 1865 Bazin’s Le Voyage en Chine 9 December 1865 Offenbach’s Barbe-bleue 5 February 1866 Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne 31 October 1866 Thomas’ Mignon 17 November 1866 Offenbach’s La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein 12 April 1867 Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette 27 April 1867 Hervé’s L’Œil crevé 12 October 1867 Offenbach’s Robinson Crusoe 23 November 1867 Bizet’s La Jolie fille de Perth 26 December 1867 Thomas’ Hamlet 9 March 1868 Offenbach’s L’Île de Tulipatan 30 September 1868 Offenbach’s La Périchole 6 October 1868 Hervé’s Chilpéric 24 October 1868 Hervé’s Le Petit Faust 23 April 1869 Bizet’s Djamileh 22 May 1872 Saint-Saëns’ La Princesse jaune 12 June 1872 Lecocq’s La Fille de Madame Angot 4 December 1872 Delibes’ Le Roi l’a dit 24 May 1873 Lecocq’s Girofle-Girofla 21 March 1874 Bizet’s Carmen 3 March 1875 Massé’s Paul et Virginie 15 November 1876 Audran’s Le Grand mogol 24 February 1877 Planquette’s Les Cloches de Corneville 1877 Massenet’s Le Roi de Lahore 27 April 1877 Chabrier’s L’Etoile 28 November 1877 Saint-Saëns’ Samson et Dalila 2 December 1877 Lecocq’s Le Petit Duc 25 January 1878 Offenbach’s Madame Favart 28 December 1878 Offenbach’s La Fille du Tambour-Major 13 December 1879 Delibes’ Jean de Nivelle 8 March 1880 Varney’s Le Mousquetaires au convent 16 March 1880 Audran’s La Mascotte 29 December 1880 Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann 10 February 1881 Massenet’s Hérodiade 19 December 1881 Thomas’ Françoise de Rimini 14 April 1882 Saint-Saéns’ Henry VIII 5 March 1883 Delibes’ Lakmé 14 April 1883 Reyer’s Sigurd 7 January 1884 Massenet’s Manon 19 January 1884 Massenet’s Le Cid 30 November 1885 Chabrier’s Gwendoline 10 April 1886 Paladihile’s Patrie 20 December 1886 Godard’s Jocelyn 25 February 1887 Lalo’s Le Roi d’Ys 7 May 1888 Massenet’s Esclarmonde 14 May 1889 Reyer’s Salammbô 10 February 1890 Saint-Saëns’ Ascanio 21 March 1890 Messager’s La Basoche 30 May 1890 Berlioz’s Les Troyens 6 December 1890 Bruneau’s Le Rêve 18 June 1891 Massenet’s Werther 16 February 1892 Berlioz’s Le Damnation de Faust 18 February 1893 Saint-Saëns’ Phryné 24 May 1893 Bruneau’s L’Attacque du moulin 23 November 1893 Franck’s Hulda 4 March 1894 Massenet’s Thaïs 16 March 1894 Massenet’s La Navarraise 20 June 1894 Bruneau’s Messidor 19 February 1897 d’Indy’s Fervaal 12 March 1897 Messager’s Les P’tites Michu 16 November 1897 Massenet’s Sapho 27 November 1897 De Lara’s Messaline 21 March 1899 Massenet’s Cendrillon 24 May 1899

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