Above: “Duel Scene, Act IV”
from The Victor Book of Opera (1913), page 118

Part 2 of the project Acclaimed Artists Discuss Opera Masterworks

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

• George Gershwin (1898-1937)
  • Porgy and Bess (1935)
• Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
  • Faust (1859)
  • Roméo et Julliette (1867)
• Reynaldo Hahn (1874-1947)
  • French Operetta
• George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
  • General
  • Jephtha (1751)
• Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857-1919)
  • I Pagliacci (1892)
• Jules Massenet (1842-1912)
  • Don Quichotte (1910)
  • Manon (1884)
  • Thaïs (1894)
  • Werther (1892)
• Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)
  • Saint-François d’Assise (1975)