Above: “Carmen’s Defiance, Act IV”
from The Victor Book of Opera (1913), page 47

Part 1 of the project Acclaimed Artists Discuss Opera Masterworks

Composers and operas (with first premiere date) included on this page:

• Samuel Barber (1910-1981)
  • Anthony and Cleopatra (1966)
  • Vanessa (1958)
• Béla Bartók (1881-1945)
  • Bluebeard’s Castle (1918)
• Alban Berg (1885-1935)
  • Wozzeck (1925)
• Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)
  • La Damnation de Faust (1846)
• Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
  • Carmen (1875)
• Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)
  • Mefistofele (1868)
• Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
  • Billy Budd (1951)
  • Death in Venice (1973)
  • Owen Wingrave (1971)
• Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
  • Doktor Faust (1925)
• Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956)
  • Louise (1900)
• Claude Debussy (1862-1918)
  • Pelléas et Mélisande (1902)
• Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
  • Don Pasquale (1843)
• Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)
  • Rusalka (1901)