Famous Operas 1. Giacomo Puccini a. Madama Butterfly (1904) i. Takes place in Nagasaki, Japan b. La Bohme (1896) i.

Takes place in 1830s Paris ii. focuses on the love between the seamstress called Mim and the poet Rodolfo c. Tosca (1900) i. Takes place in Rome, Italy d. Turandot i. Nessun Dorma ii. Takes place in legendary times in Peking, China iii. Focuses on the marriage of Princess Turandot by answering three riddles and Prince of Tartary 2. Giuseppe Verdi a. Aida (1871) i. Believed to have been written from the opening of the Suez Canal b. Rigoletto (1851) c. La Traviata (1853) d. Falstaff (1893) 3. Georges Bizet a. Carmen (1845) 4. Gioacchino Rossini a. The Barber of Seville (1816) 5. Richard Wagner a. The Ring of the Nibelung b. The Flying Dutchman c. Lohengrin d. Siegfried 6. George Gershwin a. Porgy and Bess 7. Ludwig van Beethoven a. Fidelio (1805) 8. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart a. The Magic Flute b. The Marriage of Figaro