A Abdisho IV Maron, Patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church •
Hans Pfitzner:
Palestrina (as Abdisu)
Peter Abelard, French priest, scholar, theologian •
Peter Tahourdin:
Héloise and Abelard •
Charles Wilson:
Héloise and Abelard John Quincy Adams, American President •
Anthony Davis,
Amistad •
Virgil Thomson:
The Mother of Us All Adelaide of Aquitaine, queen consort of France by marriage to Hugh Capet •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Ugo, conte di Parigi Gabriele Adorno, fifth
Doge of Genoa •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Simon Boccanegra Flavius Aetius, Roman general •
Giuseppe Gazzaniga:
Ezio •
George Frideric Handel:
Ezio •
Gaetano Latilla:
Ezio •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Attila Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, German alchemist, writer •
Sergei Prokofiev:
The Fiery Angel (as Agrippa of Nettesheim)
Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Roman statesman and general •
Samuel Barber:
Antony and Cleopatra Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus, Roman consul (32 BC) •
Samuel Barber:
Antony and Cleopatra (as Enobarbus) Pharaoh
Akhenaten of Egypt •
Philip Glass:
Akhnaten 3rd Duke of Alba, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands •
Gaetano Donizetti, completed by
Matteo Salvi: '''''
Le duc d'Albe''''' •
Ernst Krenek:
Karl V Albert of Mainz, Elector and Archbishop of Mainz •
Paul Hindemith:
Mathis der Maler (as Albrecht von Brandenburg)
Buzz Aldrin, American astronaut •
Jonathan Dove:
Man on the Moon Alexander the Great, King of Macedon •
Girolamo Abos:
Alessandro nelle Indie •
George Frideric Handel:
Alessandro • George Frideric Handel:
Poro •
José de Nebra:
No todo indicio es verdad y Alexandro en Asia •
Giovanni Pacini:
Alessandro nelle Indie (He appears in about 70 other operas set to the same text by
Metastasio as used by Pacini, including one by
Leonardo Vinci.) Emperor
Alexander Severus of Rome •
George Frideric Handel:
Alessandro Severo Tsar
Alexander I of Russia •
Sergei Prokofiev:
War and Peace (silent role) Brigadier General
Edward Porter Alexander, American military commander •
Philip Glass:
Appomattox Tsarina Alexandra of Russia, consort of Tsar
Nicholas II •
Deborah Drattell:
Nicholas and Alexandra Tsarevich
Alexei Petrovich of Russia, son of Peter the Great •
Franz Lehár:
Der Zarewitsch Saint
Alexius of Rome •
Stefano Landi: '''''
Il Sant'Alessio''''' (1631; the first opera written on an historical subject)
Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, husband of Lucrezia Borgia •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Lucrezia Borgia Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Torquato Tasso King
Alfonso XI of Castile •
Gaetano Donizetti:
La favorite King
Alfred the Great, legendary Anglo-Saxon king •
Thomas Arne:
Alfred •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Alfredo il grande •
Antonín Dvořák:
Alfred •
Friedrich von Flotow:
Alfred der Große Dante Alighieri: see Dante
Almanzor (Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir), de facto ruler of al-Andalus •
Giacomo Meyerbeer: ''
L'esule di Granata'' (as Almanzor)
Pedro de Alvarado, Spanish conquistador •
Lorenzo Ferrero:
La Conquista •
Roger Sessions:
Montezuma Amalasuntha, Queen of the Ostrogoths •
André Messager:
Isoline (as La Reine Amalasonthe)
Anacreon, Greek lyric poet •
Luigi Cherubini:
Anacréon •
Jean-Philippe Rameau:
Anacréon (1754 version) • Jean-Philippe Rameau:
Anacréon (1757 version)
Jacob Johan Anckarström, Swedish military officer, assassin of Gustav III •
Daniel Auber:
Gustave III •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Un ballo in maschera Tommaso Aniello: see
Masaniello Anne of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Rome and Bavaria •
Ignaz Holzbauer:
Günther von Schwarzburg Queen Anne of Great Britain •
Friedrich von Flotow:
Martha (silent role) Queen
Anne (Boleyn), second consort of Henry VIII of England •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Anna Bolena •
Camille Saint-Saëns:
Henry VIII Queen
Anne (Neville), consort of Richard III of England •
Giorgio Battistelli,
Richard III (2004) Saint
Anthony the Great •
Bernice Johnson Reagon:
The Temptation of Saint Anthony Susan B. Anthony, American women's rights activist •
Virgil Thomson:
The Mother of Us All Antiochus I Soter, King of the Seleucid Empire •
Étienne Méhul:
Stratonice •
Jean-Philippe Rameau:
Les fêtes de Polymnie Rodrigo Ponce de León, 4th Duke of Arcos, Spanish grandee, Viceroy of Naples •
Antônio Carlos Gomes:
Salvator Rosa Alice Arden, English murderer, and her husband/victim:
Thomas Arden, English Mayor •
Alexander Goehr:
Arden Must Die Margaret Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, British socialite and sexual celebrity •
Thomas Adès:
Powder Her Face Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt, Finnish-Swedish diplomat, possible lover of Gustav III of Sweden •
Daniel Auber:
Gustave III Arminius, Germanic chieftain •
George Frideric Handel:
Arminio Edwin H. Armstrong, American radio pioneer, inventor of FM radio transmission •
Evan Hause:
The Birth and Theft of Television Artabanus of Persia, political figure •
Thomas Arne:
Artaxerxes King
Artaxerxes I of Persia •
Girolamo Abos:
Artaserse •
Thomas Arne:
Artaxerxes •
Antonio Sacchini:
Artaserse (He appears in over 40 other operas set to the same text from Metastasio's libretto
Artaserse)
King Arthur, legendary king of Britain •
Isaac Albéniz:
Merlin •
Grażyna Bacewicz:
The Adventure of King Arthur •
Ernest Chausson:
Le roi Arthus •
Henry Purcell:
King Arthur •
Amadeu Vives i Roig:
Artús •
Max Vogrich:
King Arthur Chester A. Arthur, American President •
Douglas Moore:
The Ballad of Baby Doe Ulrica Arfvidsson, Swedish fortune-teller •
Daniel Auber:
Gustave III •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Un ballo in maschera Emanuele d'Astorga, Italian composer •
Johann Joseph Abert:
Astorga Atahualpa, Inca sovereign emperor •
Iain Hamilton:
The Royal Hunt of the Sun Attila the Hun •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Attila Atys, son of King Croesus of Lydia •
Reinhard Keiser:
Croesus Caesar Augustus, Roman Emperor •
Samuel Barber:
Antony and Cleopatra (as Octavius Caesar)
Aurelian, Emperor of Rome •
Gioachino Rossini:
Aureliano in Palmira Pharaoh
Ay of Egypt •
Philip Glass:
Akhnaten B Francis Bacon, Irish painter •
Stephen Crowe:
The Francis Bacon Opera Cardinal Maffeo Barberini: see
Pope Urban VIII Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly, Russian prince and general •
Sergei Prokofiev:
War and Peace Brigitte Bardot, French actress •
Igor Wakhévitch:
Être Dieu: opéra-poème, audiovisuel et cathare en six parties (a creation of
Salvador Dalí; the performer plays Bardot impersonating an artichoke) Pyotr Fyodorovich Basmanov, Russian boyar •
Antonín Dvořák:
Dimitrij Daisy Bates, Irish-Australian indigenous welfare worker and anthropologist •
Margaret Sutherland:
The Young Kabbarli Bayezid I "The Thunderbolt", Ottoman Sultan •
George Frideric Handel:
Tamerlano (as Bajazet) •
Antonio Vivaldi:
Bajazet Pierre Beaumarchais, French playwright •
John Corigliano:
The Ghosts of Versailles Saint
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury •
Ildebrando Pizzetti:
Assassinio nella cattedrale Belisarius, Byzantine general •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Belisario Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general •
Sergei Prokofiev:
War and Peace Belshazzar, Prince of Babylon •
Gioachino Rossini:
Ciro in Babilonia (as Baldassare, King of Assyria)
Olga Benário Prestes, German-Brazilian communist militant •
Jorge Antunes:
Olga Levin August, Count von Bennigsen, German general •
Sergei Prokofiev:
War and Peace Queen
Berenice III of Egypt •
George Frideric Handel:
Berenice Boris Berezovsky, Russian business oligarch •
Anthony Bolton:
The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko Louis-Alexandre Berthier, Marshal of France •
Sergei Prokofiev:
War and Peace Joe Biden, 46th
President of the United States • Curtis K. Hughes: ''
Say It Ain't So, Joe''
Otto von Bismarck, first Chancellor of Germany •
Luigi Nono: ''
Al gran sole carico d'amore''
Harman Blennerhassett, Irish-American lawyer •
Walter Damrosch:
The Man Without a Country Blondel de Nesle, French troubador •
André Grétry:
Richard Coeur-de-lion Boabdil: see
Muhammad XI of Granada Francisco de Bobadilla, Spanish colonial administrator •
Alberto Franchetti:
Cristoforo Colombo Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian writer, poet •
Franz von Suppé:
Boccaccio Simone Boccanegra, first
Doge of Genoa •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Simon Boccanegra George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford, brother of
Anne Boleyn •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Anna Bolena (as Rochefort)
Simón Bolívar, South American revolutionary •
Darius Milhaud:
Bolivar •
Thea Musgrave:
Simón Bolívar Caroline Bonaparte, Queen Consort of Naples and Sicily, sister of Napoleon
Pauline Bonaparte, Princess of France, sister of Napoleon •
Ivan Caryll:
The Duchess of Dantzic John Wilkes Booth, American presidential assassin •
Eric W. Sawyer:
Our American Cousin Lizzie Borden, American celebrity and possible axe-murderer •
Thomas Albert:
Lizbeth •
Jack Beeson:
Lizzie Borden Jorge Luis Borges, Argentinian writer •
Juan María Solare:
Veinticinco de agosto, 1983 (2 roles, Old Borges, baritone; and Young Borges, tenor) Saint
Francis Borgia, 4th Duke of Gandía, Spanish Superior-General of the Jesuits •
Ernst Krenek:
Karl V Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of
Pope Alexander VI •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Lucrezia Borgia Saint
Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal •
Hans Pfitzner:
Palestrina Đurađ Branković, Serbian despot •
Ferenc Erkel:
György Brankovics Prince
Braslav, Duke of Lower Pannonia •
Eugen Suchoň:
Svätopluk Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician •
Alexina Louie:
Mulroney: The Opera Gian Francesco Brogni, Italian cardinal •
Fromental Halévy:
La Juive John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton, British memoirist and politician •
Virgil Thomson:
Lord Byron John Brown, Sergeant of the Second Battalion, Boston Light Infantry Volunteer Militia •
Walter Schumann: '''''John Brown's Body'''''
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Flemish painter •
Jean Absil: '''''Pierre Breughel l'Ancien'''''
Antonín Brus of Mohelnice, Archbishop of Prague •
Hans Pfitzner:
Palestrina (as Anton Brus von Müglitz)
Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, Roman politician, co-assassin of Julius Caesar •
Giselher Klebe:
Die Ermordung Cäsars William Jennings Bryan, American Secretary of State, presidential candidate •
Douglas Moore:
The Ballad of Baby Doe Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham (1st creation) •
Giorgio Battistelli,
Richard III (2004)
Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi SS Head •
Erkki-Sven Tüür:
Wallenberg Albert Einstein, German-American scientist •
Paul Dessau:
Einstein •
Philip Glass:
Einstein on the Beach Emperor
Elagabalus of Rome (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus) •
Pietro Simone Agostini:
Eliogabalo •
Francesco Cavalli:
Eliogabalo Eleanor of Austria, Queen Consort of Portugal and France •
Ernst Krenek:
Karl V Eleanor of Guzman, mistress of King Alfonso XI of Castile and mother of Henry II •
Gaetano Donizetti:
La favorite (as Leonor de Guzmán)
Elisabeth, Queen of Bohemia •
Ignaz Holzbauer:
Günther von Schwarzburg (as Asberta)
Elisabeth Farnese, Queen Consort to Philip V of Spain •
John Barnett:
Farinelli Elisabeth of Valois, daughter of Henry II of France and Catherine de' Medici, wife of Philip II of Spain •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Don Carlos Elisiv of Kiev •
Heorhiy Maiboroda:
Yaroslav Mudriy Queen Elizabeth I of Castile: see Queen
Isabella I of Castile Queen
Elizabeth I of England (see also
:Category:Operas about Elizabeth I) •
Thomas Arne:
Eliza (she does not appear as a character as such, but the opera is named for her) •
Benjamin Britten:
Gloriana •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Il castello di Kenilworth • Gaetano Donizetti:
Maria Stuarda • Gaetano Donizetti:
Roberto Devereux •
Edward German:
Merrie England •
Gioachino Rossini: '''''
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra''''' Queen
Elizabeth (Woodville), consort of King Edward IV of England •
Giorgio Battistelli,
Richard III (2004)
John F. Kennedy, American President •
Michael Daugherty:
Jackie O •
David T. Little:
JFK Rosemary Kennedy, member of the Kennedy family •
David T. Little:
JFK Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, mathematician •
Philip Glass:
Kepler •
Paul Hindemith:
Die Harmonie der Welt Ivan Andreyevich Khovansky, "Tararui" (chatterbox), Russian boyar •
Modest Mussorgsky:
Khovanshchina Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet leader •
David T. Little:
JFK Edgar Ray Killen, KKK leader, murderer •
Philip Glass:
Appomattox Larry King, American talk-show host •
Mark-Anthony Turnage:
Anna Nicole Martin Luther King Jr. •
Philip Glass:
Satyagraha Henry Kissinger, American Secretary of State •
John Adams:
Nixon in China Aleksis Kivi, Finnish writer •
Einojuhani Rautavaara:
Aleksis Kivi Leon Klinghoffer, American ship passenger murdered by terrorists •
John Adams:
The Death of Klinghoffer Vasily Kochubey, Cossack hetman, associate of
Ivan Mazepa •
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
Mazeppa Konchak, Polovtsian khan Konchakovna, his daughter •
Alexander Borodin:
Prince Igor Theodor Körner, German poet and soldier •
Wendelin Weißheimer,
Theodor Körner Maria Korp, Australian murder victim •
Gordon Kerry:
Midnight Son Tadeusz Kościuszko, Polish revolutionary hero • Franciszek Salezy Dutkiewicz:
Kościuszko nad Sekwaną (
Kościuszko at the Seine)
Anne Kronenberg, American political administrator •
Stewart Wallace:
Harvey Milk Kublai Khan, Grand Khan of the Mongol Empire •
Tan Dun:
Marco Polo Mikhail Kutuzov, Russian field marshal •
Sergei Prokofiev:
War and Peace L Ladislaus I of Poland: see
Władysław I the Elbow-high Ladislaus the Posthumous, Duke of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia •
Ferenc Erkel:
Hunyadi László (as László V)
Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron •
Virgil Thomson:
Lord Byron Anne Françoise Elisabeth Lange, French actress, known as "Mademoiselle Lange" •
Charles Lecocq:
La fille de Madame Angot Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress •
Francesco Cilea:
Adriana Lecouvreur Eleanor Agnes Lee, daughter of Robert E. Lee
Mary Anna Custis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee •
Philip Glass:
Appomattox General
Robert E. Lee •
Gavin Bryars,
Philip Glass and others:
The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down •
Philip Glass:
Appomattox François Joseph Lefebvre, Marshal of France, Duke of Danzig •
Ivan Caryll:
The Duchess of Dantzic •
Umberto Giordano:
Madame Sans-Gêne : His wife, née Cathérine Hubscher, later Duchess of Danzig :*
Ivan Caryll:
The Duchess of Dantzic (as Catherine Üpscher) :*
Umberto Giordano:
Madame Sans-Gêne Guillaume Le Gentil, French astronomer •
Victor Davies:
Transit of Venus Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English courtier, favourite of Elizabeth I •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Il castello di Kenilworth • Gaetano Donizetti:
Maria Stuarda (as Roberto) •
Gioachino Rossini: ''
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra''
Augusta Leigh, half-sister and incestuous lover of Lord Byron •
Virgil Thomson:
Lord Byron Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz, German writer •
Wolfgang Rihm:
Jakob Lenz Pope St Leo I "The Great" •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Attila (as Leone)
Brother Leo, friend and confidant of
Francis of Assisi •
Olivier Messiaen: ''
Saint François d'Assise''
Leonidas of Epirus •
George Frideric Handel:
Alessandro (i)
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, Roman triumvir •
Samuel Barber:
Antony and Cleopatra (ii)
Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, heir to Roman emperor
Caligula •
Reinhard Keiser:
Octavia Leszek I the White,
High Duke of Poland 1194-1227 •
Józef Elsner:
Leszek Biały Ada Leverson, British novelist •
Theodore Morrison:
Oscar Li Bai or Li Po, Chinese poet •
Tan Dun:
Marco Polo Liliuokalani, Queen of Hawaii •
Paul Abraham:
Die Blume von Hawaii, operetta
Abraham Lincoln, American President
Mary Todd Lincoln, American First Lady •
Gavin Bryars,
Philip Glass and others:
The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down •
Philip Glass:
Appomattox •
Eric W. Sawyer:
Our American Cousin Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American writer and aviator • Cary John Franklin:
Loss of Eden •
Paul Hindemith and
Kurt Weill:
Der Lindberghflug (''Lindbergh's Flight''). This was later changed by removal of Hindemith's contribution, renaming it to
Der Ozeanflug (
The Flight across the Ocean), and removal of Lindbergh's name. The opening line was changed from "My name is Charles Lindbergh" to "My name is of no account".
Alexander Litvinenko, murdered Russian-British security operative •
Anthony Bolton:
The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko Judah Loew ben Bezalel, Bohemian Talmudic scholar •
Nicolae Bretan:
Golem (as Rabbi Lőw) •
Eugen d'Albert:
Der Golem King
Louis V of France •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Ugo, conte di Parigi King
Louis VI of France •
Carl Maria von Weber:
Euryanthe King
Louis XII of France •
André Messager:
La Basoche King
Louis XIII of France •
Charles Gounod:
Cinq-Mars King
Louis XIV of France •
Léo Delibes: '''''
Le roi l'a dit''''' (unseen role; he is referred to by the other characters) King
Louis XV of France •
Michel Richard Delalande and
André Cardinal Destouches:
Les élémens (represented by a chorus) •
Leo Fall:
Madame Pompadour King
Louis XVI of France •
John Corigliano:
The Ghosts of Versailles Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell •
Giorgio Battistelli,
Richard III (2004) •
Lorenzo Ferrero:
Marilyn •
Igor Wakhévitch:
Être Dieu: opéra-poème, audiovisuel et cathare en six parties (a creation of
Salvador Dalí; Monroe is doing a striptease with
Catherine the Great of Russia)
Guy de Montfort, Count of Nola, Anglo-Italian
condottiero •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Les vêpres siciliennes Thomas Moore, Irish poet, songwriter •
Virgil Thomson:
Lord Byron Mordred, legendary Arthurian character •
Isaac Albéniz:
Merlin •
Ernest Chausson:
Le roi Arthus Thomas Morton, American colonist of New England •
Howard Hanson:
Merry Mount George Moscone, Mayor of San Francisco •
Stewart Wallace:
Harvey Milk Moses, biblical character •
Gioacchino Rossini:
Mosè in Egitto •
Arnold Schoenberg:
Moses und Aron •
Myroslav Skoryk:
Moses Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy, Elizabethan figure •
Benjamin Britten:
Gloriana Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Austrian composer •
P. D. Q. Bach (
Peter Schickele):
A Little Nightmare Music •
Reynaldo Hahn:
Mozart (musical comedy) •
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:
Mozart and Salieri Gaius Mucius Scaevola, Roman figure •
Francesco Cavalli:
Mutio Scevola •
George Frideric Handel:
Muzio Scevola Muhammad XI of Granada, aka Boabdil, last Nasrid ruler of Granada •
Giuseppe Apolloni: ''L'ebreo'' •
Emilio Arrieta:
La conquista di Granata •
Moritz Moszkowski:
Boabdil der letzte Maurenkönig •
Baltasar Saldoni:
Boabdil, ultimo rey de Granada Brian Mulroney, Prime Minister of Canada
Mila Mulroney, Canadian First Lady •
Alexina Louie:
Mulroney: The Opera Ottoman Sultan
Murad II •
Antonio Vivaldi:
Scanderbeg (as Amurat II)
Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Spanish Baroque painter •
Josep Soler i Sardà:
Murillo John Murray II, British publisher •
Virgil Thomson:
Lord Byron Eadweard Muybridge, English pioneer photographer •
Philip Glass:
The Photographer N Emperor
Napoleon I of France (Napoleon Bonaparte) •
Ivan Caryll:
The Duchess of Dantzic •
Eugen d'Albert:
Der Stier von Olivera •
Umberto Giordano:
Madame Sans-Gêne •
Emmerich Kálmán:
Kaiserin Josephine •
Sergei Prokofiev:
War and Peace Emperor
Napoleon II of France •
Arthur Honegger and
Jacques Ibert: '''''
L'Aiglon''''' •
Petar Stojanović:
Napoleon II: Herzog von Reichstadt Louis, comte de Narbonne-Lara •
Ivan Caryll:
The Duchess of Dantzic (as Comte de Narbonne)
Carrie Nation, American temperance advocate and vandal •
Douglas Moore:
Carry Nation Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon •
Benjamin Britten:
The Burning Fiery Furnace •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Nabucco Nefertiti, wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten of Egypt •
Philip Glass:
Akhnaten Adam Albert von Neipperg, Austrian general •
Umberto Giordano:
Madame Sans-Gêne Frances Nelson, Lady Nelson, wife of Lord Nelson •
Lennox Berkeley:
Nelson Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, British admiral, naval hero •
Lennox Berkeley:
Nelson Emperor
Nero of Rome •
Arrigo Boito:
Nerone •
George Frideric Handel:
Agrippina •
Reinhard Keiser:
Octavia •
Juan Manén:
Acté and
Neró i Acté •
Pietro Mascagni:
Nerone (as Claudio Cesare Nerone) •
Claudio Monteverdi: ''
L'incoronazione di Poppea'' •
Anton Rubinstein:
Néron Tsar
Nicholas II of Russia •
Deborah Drattell:
Nicholas and Alexandra Nitocris, Queen of Egypt, maybe legendary •
Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini:
Nitocri Pat Nixon, American First Lady •
John Adams:
Nixon in China Richard Nixon, American President •
John Adams:
Nixon in China Rikard Nordraak, Norwegian composer •
Edvard Grieg, arr.
Robert Wright and
George Forrest:
Song of Norway Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk, English politician, uncle to two of Henry VIII's wives •
Camille Saint-Saëns:
Henry VIII Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English nobleman •
Gioachino Rossini: ''
Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra''
Rosaleen Norton, so-called "Witch of Kings Cross", Sydney occultist • Drew Crawford:
Eugene & Roie Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham, English admiral and statesman •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Roberto Devereux O J. F. Oberlin, Alsatian pastor, philanthropist •
Wolfgang Rihm:
Jakob Lenz Empress
Claudia Octavia of Rome, consort of
Nero •
Reinhard Keiser:
Octavia •
Claudio Monteverdi: ''
L'incoronazione di Poppea''
Octavia the Younger, fourth wife of Mark Antony •
Samuel Barber:
Antony and Cleopatra •
Jules Massenet:
Cléopâtre King
Olaf I Tryggvason of Norway •
Ragnar Søderlind:
Olav Tryggvason King Olaf II of Norway (
Saint Olaf) •
Judith Weir: ''
King Harald's Saga''
Frank Olson, American biochemist •
Evan Hause:
Man: Biology of a Fall Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate •
Michael Daugherty:
Jackie O Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American First Lady, wife of John F. Kennedy, then of Aristotle Onassis •
Michael Daugherty:
Jackie O •
David T. Little:
JFK J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist •
John Adams:
Doctor Atomic Sallustia Orbiana, wife of Emperor Alexander Severus of Rome •
George Frideric Handel:
Alessandro Severo Pylyp Orlyk, associate of
Ivan Mazepa •
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky:
Mazeppa Pier Francesco Orsini, Italian condottiero •
Alberto Ginastera:
Bomarzo Emperor
Marcus Salvius Otho of Rome •
Antonio Vivaldi:
Ottone in villa P-Q María de Padilla, mistress and secret wife of
Peter of Castile •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Maria Padilla Niccolò Paganini, Italian violinist and composer • Sir
Harrison Birtwistle:
The Second Mrs Kong Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer •
Hans Pfitzner:
Palestrina •
Johann Sachs:
Palestrina Sarah Palin, American politician, Governor of Alaska, vice-presidential candidate • Curtis K. Hughes: ''
Say It Ain't So, Joe''
Papantzin, Aztec princess, sister of Moctezuma II •
Henry Kimball Hadley:
Azora, the Daughter of Montezuma Johan Papegoja, Governor of
New Sweden •
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger:
The Doomsday Prophets Ely S. Parker, American Seneca native, Commissioner of Indian Affairs •
Philip Glass:
Appomattox Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist •
Nigel Osborne:
The Electrification of the Soviet Union (narrator)
Francisco Pelsaert, Dutch merchant, naval commander •
Richard Mills:
Batavia Samuel Pepys, English diarist •
Albert Coates:
Samuel Pepys Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Anna Bolena Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, Castilian nobleman, known as
Guzmán el Bueno •
Tomás Bretón:
Guzmán el Bueno •
Baltasar Saldoni:
Guzmán el Bueno Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer •
Emilio Arrieta:
Pergolesi •
Paolo Serrao:
Pergolesi Pericles, Athenian statesman •
Henri Christiné:
Phi-Phi Saint Peter, Christian apostle •
Harrison Birtwistle:
The Last Supper •
Edwin Penhorwood:
Too Many Sopranos King
Peter III of Aragon, "Peter the Great" •
Hector Berlioz:
Béatrice et Bénédict (Don Pedro) •
Felip Pedrell:
Els Pirineus •
Charles Villiers Stanford:
Much ado about nothing King
Peter of Castile, "Peter the Cruel" •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Maria Padilla (as Don Pedro, Prince of Castile) •
Hilarión Eslava:
Pietro il Crudele Tsar
Peter I "The Great" of Russia •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Il falegname di Livonia, o Pietro il grande, czar delle Russie • Gaetano Donizetti:
Il borgomastro di Saardam •
André Grétry:
Pierre le Grand •
Louis-Antoine Jullien:
Pietro il grande (1852) •
Albert Lortzing:
Zar und Zimmermann •
Giacomo Meyerbeer: ''
L'étoile du nord''
Peter the Hermit, priest and leader of the First Crusade •
Charles Gounod:
La nonne sanglante Gaius Petronius Arbiter, Roman courtier, writer •
Claudio Monteverdi: ''
L'incoronazione di Poppea''
Michele Pezza, Neapolitan guerilla leader, known as "Fra Diavolo" •
Daniel Auber:
Fra Diavolo King
Pharnaces II of Pontus •
Francesco Cavalli:
Pompeo Magno (as Farnace) • Francesco Corselli:
Farnace •
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Mitridate, re di Ponto •
Josef Mysliveček:
Farnace •
Alessandro Scarlatti:
Mitridate Eupatore •
Leonardo Vinci:
Farnace •
Antonio Vivaldi:
Farnace Phidias, Greek sculptor •
Henri Christiné:
Phi-Phi King
Philip II of Spain •
Isaac Nathan:
Don John of Austria (disguised as Count de Santa Fiore) •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Don Carlos King
Philip V of Spain •
John Barnett:
Farinelli Mariana de Pineda, Spanish liberalist heroine. •
Alberto Garcia Demestres:
Mariana en sombras Gaspare Pisciotta, Sicilian peasant •
Lorenzo Ferrero:
Salvatore Giuliano Gaius Calpurnius Piso, Roman senator •
Reinhard Keiser:
Octavia Pope Pius IV •
Hans Pfitzner:
Palestrina Sylvia Plath •
Adriana Hölszky:
Giuseppe e Sylvia (2000)
Edgar Allan Poe, American writer •
Dominic Argento,
The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe •
Damon Ferrante:
Jefferson & Poe: A Lyric Opera Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist, human rights activist •
Anthony Bolton:
The Life and Death of Alexander Litvinenko Poliziano (Angelo Ambrogini), Italian renaissance poet, scholar •
Ruggero Leoncavallo:
I Medici Marco Polo, Italian adventurer •
Tan Dun:
Marco Polo Saint
Polyeuctus •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Poliuto •
Charles Gounod:
Polyeucte Lorenz Truchsess von Pommersfelden •
Paul Hindemith:
Mathis der Maler Madame de Pompadour, French courtier, mistress of
Louis XV •
Leo Fall:
Madame Pompadour •
Edwin Penhorwood:
Too Many Sopranos (spoofed as "Madame Popmpous")
Pompey the Great, Roman military and political leader •
Francesco Cavalli:
Pompeo Magno Empress
Poppaea Augusta Sabina, consort of Roman Emperor Nero •
George Frideric Handel:
Agrippina •
Claudio Monteverdi: '''''
L'incoronazione di Poppea'''''
Lars Porsena, King of Etruria • Filippo Amadei,
Giovanni Bononcini and
George Frideric Handel:
Muzio Scevola Porus, King of Paurava •
George Frideric Handel:
Poro Charles E. Potter, American politician •
Gregory Spears:
Fellow Travelers Sister
Helen Prejean, American nun, death penalty abolitionist •
Jake Heggie:
Dead Man Walking Přemysl, the Ploughman, first ruler of Bohemia •
Tomaso Albinoni:
Primislao, primo re di Boemia John of Procida, Italian medieval physician and diplomat •
Giuseppe Verdi:
Les vêpres siciliennes John Proctor, a tavern keeper in 17th century Massachusetts who was hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials •
Robert Ward:
The Crucible Chevalier de Prokesch-Osten •
Arthur Honegger and
Jacques Ibert: ''
L'Aiglon''
Marcel Proust, French novelist •
Alfred Schnittke:
Life with an Idiot Pharaoh
Ptolemy IX Lathyros of Egypt •
George Frideric Handel:
Tolomeo Pharaoh
Ptolemy XI Alexander II of Egypt •
George Frideric Handel:
Tolomeo Publius Valerius Publicola, Roman consul •
George Frideric Handel:
Muzio Scevola Yemelyan Pugachev, Russian pretender to the throne •
César Cui: ''
The Captain's Daughter''
Qin Shi Huang, first Emperor of unified China •
Tan Dun:
The First Emperor Vasco de Quiroga, member of the second
Audiencia in Mexico and first bishop of
Michoacán •
Miguel Bernal Jiménez:
Tata Vasco R Nikolay Raevsky, Russian general •
Sergei Prokofiev:
War and Peace Gilles de Rais, French soldier and serial killer of children •
Walter Braunfels:
Szenen aus dem Leben der Heiligen Johanna Elizabeth Raleigh, wife of Sir Walter Raleigh •
Edward German:
Merrie England (as Bessie Throckmorton) Sir
Walter Raleigh, English explorer and courtier •
Benjamin Britten:
Gloriana •
Gaetano Donizetti:
Roberto Devereux •
Edward German:
Merrie England Raphael, Italian painter •
Anton Arensky:
Raphael Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic, confidant of Tsarina Alexandra •
Einojuhani Rautavaara:
Rasputin Rastislav of Moravia, second ruler of Moravia •
Eugen Suchoň:
Svätopluk Sir
Richard Ratcliffe •
Giorgio Battistelli,
Richard III (2004)
Brett Whiteley, Australian painter
Wendy Whiteley, his muse and sometime wife
Arkie Whiteley, their daughter •
Elena Kats-Chernin:
Whiteley (2019)
Walt Whitman •
Theodore Morrison:
Oscar •
Alberto Garcia Demestres:
WOW! Oscar Wilde, Irish writer •
Theodore Morrison:
Oscar •
Alberto Garcia Demestres:
WOW! Queen
Wilhelmina of the Netherlands •
Gavin Bryars,
Philip Glass and others:
The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down William the Conqueror (King William I of England) •
Frederic Hymen Cowen:
Harold or the Norman Conquest (as William, Duke of Normandy)
William the Silent (William I, Prince of Orange) •
Gavin Bryars,
Philip Glass and others:
The Civil Wars: A Tree Is Best Measured When It Is Down Sir
Alfred Wills, English judge •
Theodore Morrison:
Oscar Robert R. Wilson, American physicist •
John Adams:
Doctor Atomic Władysław I the Elbow-high (aka Ladislaus I), King of Poland 1320-33 •
Józef Elsner:
Król Łokietek Wolfram von Eschenbach, Medieval German poet •
Richard Wagner:
Tannhäuser Thomas Wolsey, English cardinal • Sir
Peter Maxwell Davies:
Taverner (not identified as such)
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect Catherine "Kitty" (Tobin) Wright (1871–1959), American socialite, social worker, first wife of Frank Lloyd Wright •
Daron Hagen:
Shining Brow Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, aka "Joe the Plumber", American plumber, television celebrity • Curtis K. Hughes: ''
Say It Ain't So, Joe''
X-Y Malcolm X, African-American human rights activist •
Anthony Davis:
X – The Life and Times of Malcolm X Xerxes I "the Great," king of Persia •
Johann Christian Bach:
Temistocle •
Giovanni Bononcini:
Xerse •
Francesco Cavalli:
Xerse •
George Frideric Handel:
Serse •
Hugo Weisgall:
Esther Xiphares, son of
Mithridates VI of Pontus •
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart:
Mitridate, re di Ponto Yaghi-Siyan, Governor of Antioch •
Giuseppe Verdi:
I Lombardi alla prima crociata (as Acciano)
Ōtomo no Yakamochi, Japanese poet, diplomat •
Nikolai Korndorf:
MR (Marina and Rainer) Ralph Yarborough, American politician •
David T. Little:
JFK Yaroslav I the Wise, Grand Prince of Kiev •
Heorhiy Maiboroda:
Yaroslav Mudriy Aleksey Petrovich Yermolov, Russian general •
Sergei Prokofiev:
War and Peace Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir •
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov:
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevroniya Z Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader •
Leonardo Balada:
Zapata Zeno, Byzantine emperor •
Tomaso Albinoni: ''Zenone, imperator d'Oriente''
Zenobia, Queen of the Palmyrene Empire •
Tomaso Albinoni:
Zenobia, regina de Palmireni •
Gioachino Rossini:
Aureliano in Palmira Zhou Enlai, Chinese political leader •
John Adams:
Nixon in China (as Chou En-lai)
Zoroaster •
Jean-Philippe Rameau:
Zoroastre Venerable
Zosimas of Palestine •
Ottorino Respighi:
Maria egiziaca (as Abbot Zosimus) Nikola Šubić Zrinski: see
Šubić Zrinski ==References==