Tragic love
Opera in which a tragic or destructive love relationship is central to the drama.
An editorial grouping — a way in, not an objective classification.
33 operas
- Medea (1797) — Luigi Cherubini
- Anna Bolena (1830) — Gaetano Donizetti
- La sonnambula (1831) — Vincenzo Bellini
- Norma (1831) — Vincenzo Bellini
- Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) — Gaetano Donizetti
- Maria Stuarda (1835) — Gaetano Donizetti
- Rigoletto (1851) — Giuseppe Verdi
- Il trovatore (1853) — Giuseppe Verdi
- La traviata (1853) — Giuseppe Verdi
- Un ballo in maschera (1859) — Giuseppe Verdi
- Tristan und Isolde (1859) — Richard Wagner
- La forza del destino (1862) — Giuseppe Verdi
- Roméo et Juliette (1867) — Charles Gounod
- Die Walküre (1870) — Richard Wagner
- Aida (1871) — Giuseppe Verdi
- Carmen (1875) — Georges Bizet
- La Gioconda (1876) — Amilcare Ponchielli
- Samson et Dalila (1877) — Camille Saint-Saëns
- Eugene Onegin (1879) — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- 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
- 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