Above: “Hamlet and the Actors – Act II”
from The Victor Book of Opera (1913), page 169

Part 4 of the project Acclaimed Artists Discuss Opera Masterworks

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

• Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
  • La Cenerentola (1817)
• Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921)
  • Samson et Dalila (1877)
  • Henry VIII (1883)
• Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
  • Arabella (1933)
  • Ariadne auf Naxos (1912)
  • Capriccio (1942)
  • Daphne (1938)
  • Der Rosenkavalier (1911)
  • Die Frau ohne Schatten (1919)
  • Elektra (1909)
  • Intermezzo (1924)
  • Salome (1905)
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
  • Iolanta (1891)
  • Pikovaya dama (The Queen of Spades) (1890)
  • Eugene Onegin (1878)
• Ambroise Thomas (1811-1896)
  • Hamlet (1868)