- Giuseppe Verdis Aida (1871)
- Giacomo Puccinis Tosca (1900)
- Richard Wagners Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868)
- Charles Gounods Faust (1859)
- Jules Massenets Thaïs (1894)
- Camille Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila (1877)
- Igor Stravinskys The Rake's Progress (1951)
- Benjamin Brittens Peter Grimes (1945)
- Philip Glass' Akhnaten (1984)
- John Adams' Nixon i Kina (1987)
- Kaija Saariahos L'Amour de loin (2000)
- György Ligetis Le Grand Macabre (1978)