- Giuseppe Verdi's Aida (1871)
- Giacomo Puccini's Tosca (1900)
- Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1868)
- Charles Gounod's Faust (1859)
- Jules Massenet's Thaïs (1894)
- Camille Saint-Saëns' Samson et Dalila (1877)
- Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress (1951)
- Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (1945)
- Philip Glass' Akhnaten (1984)
- John Adams' Nixon in China (1987)
- Kaija Saariaho's L'Amour de loin (2000)
- György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1978)