Through-composed
An opera whose music proceeds largely continuously rather than as a sequence of clearly separated musical numbers.
26 operas
- Der fliegende Holländer (1843) — Richard Wagner
- Tannhäuser (1845) — Richard Wagner
- Lohengrin (1848) — Richard Wagner
- Tristan und Isolde (1859) — Richard Wagner
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1867) — Richard Wagner
- Das Rheingold (1869) — Richard Wagner
- Die Walküre (1870) — Richard Wagner
- Siegfried (1871) — Richard Wagner
- Götterdämmerung (1874) — Richard Wagner
- Parsifal (1882) — Richard Wagner
- Le Villi (1884) — Giacomo Puccini
- Otello (1887) — Giuseppe Verdi
- Edgar (1889) — Giacomo Puccini
- Cavalleria rusticana (1890) — Pietro Mascagni
- Pagliacci (1892) — Ruggero Leoncavallo
- Iolanta (1892) — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Manon Lescaut (1893) — Giacomo Puccini
- Falstaff (1893) — Giuseppe Verdi
- La bohème (1896) — Giacomo Puccini
- Zanetto (1896) — Pietro Mascagni
- Tosca (1900) — Giacomo Puccini
- Rusalka (1901) — Antonín Dvořák
- Jenůfa (1904) — Leoš Janáček
- Madama Butterfly (1904) — Giacomo Puccini
- La fanciulla del West (1910) — Giacomo Puccini
- Turandot (1926) — Giacomo Puccini