📚 Opera

Books with opera on their catalogue record, first published between 1800 and 1993, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 24 works carrying the subject opera in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 50,179 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Richard Wagner über Tristan und Isolde	Richard Wagner	1800	165
	An English translation of Parsifal, the sacred festival drama by Richard Wagner	Richard Wagner	1879	143
	Don Giovanni	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	1800	109
	Der Fliegende Holländer	Richard Wagner	1856	94
	Carmen	Georges Bizet	1800	92
	Rigoletto	Giuseppe Verdi	1850	70
	Aïda	Giuseppe Verdi	1800	64
	Faust	Charles Gounod	1800	63
	Mignon	Ambroise Thomas	1800	63
	Macbeth, Cloth, It	Giuseppe Verdi	1847	58
	The Pirates of Penzance	Sir William Schwenck Gilbert	1879	56
	Fidelio	Ludwig van Beethoven	1800	51
	Tosca	Giacomo Puccini	1899	51
	Bohème	Giacomo Puccini	1896	46
	Trovatore	Giuseppe Verdi	1800	46
	The complete operas of Gilbert and Sullivan	Sir William Schwenck Gilbert	1900	44
	Gondoliers	Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan	1800	43
	Iolanthe, or, The prince and the peri	Sir William Schwenck Gilbert	1882	43
	Cenerentola	Gioacchino Rossini	1800	42
	Pagliacci	Ruggiero Leoncavallo	1800	36
	Manon Lescaut	Giacomo Puccini	1893	29
	Handbuch der Oper	Kloiber, Rudolf	1961	8
	The Queen's Throat	Wayne Koestenbaum	1993	7
	Great operatic disasters	Hugh Vickers	1979	4

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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