Also in the 1830s and 1840s Richard Wagner produced his first successful operas.

Learning that he had written a successful opera, one of his former employers could only sputter: "What?

As Mozart knew, a successful opera is not simply a string of numbers but drama in music.

This was soon followed by a series of successful operas mounted in Naples.

Stravinsky was the last composer from whom one had any right or reason, in 1947, to expect a successful opera.

Every successful opera is a prisoner of a peculiar sound.

He spent time in Italy, hoping that this would assist him to write a successful opera (a hope which was never fulfilled).

It is hard to think of many successful operas with original librettos.

It became his most successful opera in the years of the Academy.

Victor Massé wrote a very successful opera on the subject in 1876.