吉尔伯特与萨利文的轻歌剧就不说了，列一些比较有代表性的和个人觉得不错的，特别重口味和新作品不包括。
Purcell的Dido and Aeneas
Arne的Artaxerxes
Balfe的The Bohemian Girl
William Wallace的Maritana
Ethel Smyth的The Wreckers
Delius的The Village Romeo and Juliet
Vaughan Williams的The Pilgrim's Progress，Sir John in Love
Walton的Troilus and Cressida
Tippett的The Midsummer Marriage
Britten的Peter Grimes，Billy Budd，Albert Herring，The Turn of the Screw， A Midsummer Night's Dream，Death in Venice
Maxwell Davies的Taverner
Gershwin的Porgy and Bess
Copland的The Tender Land
Hanson的Merry Mount
Stravinsky的The Rake's Progress
Menotti的The Telephone
Barber的Vanessa
Bernstein的Candid
Philip Glass的Akhnaten，Einstein on the Beach
John Adams的Nickson in China，Doctor Atomic
