Composers

Learn more about opera’s composers including biographical details, musical style and notable works.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Composer Thea Musgrave (c) Kate Mount

Thea Musgrave

Sir Arthur Sullivan

Richard Wagner

Richard Strauss

Cabinet card portrait of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Part of the New York Public Library Collection.

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Poul Ruders

Philip Glass

ENO Composers Oliver Knussen

Oliver Knussen

Nico Muhly

ENO Composers Michael Tippett

Michael Tippett

ENO Composers Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

Marina Abramović at the press conference for the presentation of the retrospective The Cleaner of Palazzo Strozzi held at the Cinema Odeon Florence 19 Sep 2018. Photo by Francesco Pierantoni

Marina Abramović

Ludwig van Beethoven

Leoš Janáček

ENO Composer Judith Weir

Judith Weir

ENO Composer Jonathan Dove

Jonathan Dove

ENO Composers John Adams

John Adams

Joanna Lee

Jeanine Tesori

Jake Heggie

Jacques Offenbach

ENO Jack the Ripper composer Iain Bell (c) Frances Marshall

Iain Bell

Henryk Górecki

Harrison Birtwistle

Giuseppe Verdi

head and shoulder portrait of Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Rossini

Gilbert & Sullivan headshots

Gilbert & Sullivan

Giacomo Puccini

Georges Bizet

Composer George Gershwin in the 1920s

George Gershwin

Black and white portrait of George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel

Portrait of Gaetano Donizetti holding paper and a quill

Gaetano Donizetti

Black and white photograph of Franz Lehar

Franz Lehár

Black and White portrait of Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

Claudio Monteverdi_(c.1630)

Claudio Monteverdi

Black and white portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Head and shoulders photograph of Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten

Bela Bartok sat at a piano

Béla Bartók