by the guardian

• L'Orfeo - Claudio Monteverdi (Italy 1607)
• Dido and Aeneas - Henry Purcell (UK 1689)
• Giulio Cesare - George Frideric Handel (UK 1724)
• Serse - Handel (UK 1738)
• Orfeo ed Euridice - Christoph Willibald Gluck (Austria 1762)
• Idomeneo - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Germany 1781)
• Le Nozze di Figaro - Mozart (Austria 1786)
• Die Zauberflöte - Mozart (Austria 1791)
• Il Barbiere di Siviglia - Gioachino Rossini (Italy 1816)
• Guillaume Tell - Gioachino Rossini (France 1829)
• Norma - Vincenzo Bellini (Italy 1831)
• L'Elisir d'Amore - Gaetano Donizetti (Italy 1832)
• Lucia di Lammermoor - Gaetano Donizetti (Italy 1835)
• Rigoletto - Giuseppe Verdi (Italy 1851)
• La Traviata - Giuseppe Verdi (Italy 1853)
• Don Carlos/Don Carlo - Giuseppe Verdi (France 1867)
• Falstaff - Giuseppe Verdi (Italy 1893)
• Pagliacci - Ruggero Leoncavallo (Italy 1892)
• La Bohème - Giacomo Puccini (Italy 1896)
• Tosca - Giacomo Puccini (Italy 1900)
• Madama Butterfly - Giacomo Puccini (Italy 1904)
• Turandot - Giacomo Puccini (Italy 1926)
• Fidelio - Ludwig van Beethoven (Austria 1805)
• Der Freischütz - Carl Maria von Weber (Germany 1821)
• Lohengrin - Richard Wagner (Germany 1850)
• Tristan und Isolde (Germany 1865)
• Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - Richard Wagner (Germany 1868)
• Der Ring des Nibelungen - Richard Wagner (Germany 1876)
• Die Lustige Witwe - Franz Lehár (Austria 1905)
• Salome - Richard Strauss (Germany 1905)
• Der Rosenkavalier - Richard Strauss (Germany 1911)
• Les Troyens - Hector Berlioz (France 1863)
• Carmen - Georges Bizet (France 1875)
• Manon - Jules Massenet (France 1884)
• Pelléas et Mélisande - Claude Debussy (France 1902)
• The Bartered Bride - Bedrich Smetana (Czech Republic 1866)
• Boris Godunov - Modest Mussorgsky (Russia 1874)
• Eugene Onegin - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia 1879)
• The Queen of Spades - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russia 1890)
• Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk - Dmitri Shostakovich (Russia 1934)
• War and Peace - Sergei Prokofiev (Russia 1944)
• The Rake's Progress - Igor Stravinsky (Italy 1951)
• Jenůfa - Leoš Janáček (Czech Republic 1904)
• Bluebeard's Castle - Béla Bartók (Hungary 1918)
• Wozzeck - Alban Berg (Germany 1925)
• Porgy and Bess - George Gershwin (US 1935)
• Peter Grimes - Benjamin Britten (UK 1945)
• The Turn of the Screw - Benjamin Britten (Italy 1954)
• King Priam - Michael Trippet (UK 1962)
• Le Grand Macabre - György Ligeti (Sweden 1978)

bold = want to watch most