Opera Cheats: Operas in brief

In this playlist of Opera Cheats you will find videos of about 5 minutes in which the synopsis of famous operas is presented in a short and funny way. This material is ideal for taking your students on a fun journey through the history and stories of the different operas.

The operas covered are:

1. Le nozze di Figaro , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;
2. Die Fledermaus , operetta by Johann Strauss Jr.;
3. Peter Grimes , opera by Benjamin Britten;
4. Les contes d'Hoffmann , opera by Jacques Offenbach;
5. Don Giovanni, opera by Lorenzo Da Ponte and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;
6. L'elisir d'amore , opera by Gaetano Donizetti;
7. Turandot , opera by Franco Alfano and Giacomo Puccini;
8. Die Zauberflöte , opera or singspiel by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;
9. The Turn of the Screw , opera by Benjamin Britten;
10. La Calisto , opera by Francesco Cavalli;
11. Wozzeck , opera by Alban Berg;
12. Madama Butterfly , opera by Giacomo Puccini;
13. Lucia di Lammermoor , opera by Gaetano Donizetti;
14. Salome , opera by Richard Strauss;
15. Einstein on the Beach , opera by Philip Glass;
16. Dido and Aeneas , opera by Henry Purcell;
17. Lakme , opera by Léo Delibes;
18. La traviata , opera by Giuseppe Verdi;
19. Dialogues des carmelites , opera by Francis Poulenc;
20. Carmen , opera by Georges Bizet;
21. La voix humaine , opera by Francis Poulenc;
22. Der Freischütz, opera by Carl Maria von Weber;
23. Così fan tutte , opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart;
24. La boheme , opera by Giacomo Puccini;