Index of Opera Roles

This index includes the principal roles in some 269 operas and the singers who created them.

Abbreviations: a - alto; b - bass; bb - bass-baritone; bt - baritone; ct - countertenor; hc - haute-contre; ms - mezzo-soprano; s - soprano; sp - spoken role; t - tenor; tr - treble

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I

Role

Voice

Opera

Composer

Singer

Iago

t

Otello

Rossini

Giuseppe Ciccimarra

Iago

bt

Otello

Verdi

Victor Maurel

Iarbas

t

Dido, Queen of Carthage

Storace

Michael Kelly

Idamantes/Idamante

s

Idomeneo

Mozart

Vincenzo dal Prato

Idas

b

Atys

Lully

Morel

Idelberto

a

Lotario

Handel

Francesca Bertolli

Idomeneus/Idomeneo

t

Idomeneo

Mozart

Anton Raaff

Idraote

b

Armida

Rossini

Michele Benedetti

Idreno

b

Armida

Haydn;

Paolo Mandini

Idreno

t

Semiramide

Rossini

John Sinclair

Ighino

s

Palestrina

Pfitzner

Maria Ivogün

Igor, Prince

bt

Prince Igor

Borodin

Ivan Mel'nikov

Ilia

s

Idomeneo

Mozart

Dorothea Wendling

Ilione

s

Idoménée

Campra

Françoise Journet

Ilo

t

Zelmira

Rossini

Giovanni Davide

Imogene

s

Il pirata

Bellini

Henriette Méric-Lalande

Ines

ms

Maria Padilla

Donizetti

Luigia Abbadia

Ines/Inès

s

L’Africaine

Meyerbeer

Marie Battu

Inferno, Lord

bt

Lord Inferno

Ghedini

Tito Gobbi

Inigo Gomez, Don

b

L’heure espagnole

Ravel

Hector Dufranne

Inkeeper

ms

Boris Godunov

Musorgsky

Antonina Abarinova

Innkeeper

bt

Königskinder

Humperdinck

Antonio Pini-Corsi

Ino

a

Semele

Handel

Esther Young

Io

s

Isis

Lully

Marie Aubry

Iolanta

s

Iolanta

Tchaikovsky

Medea Mei-Figner

Iole

s

Hercules

Handel

Elisabeth Duparc

Iphigenia/Ifigenia

s

Ifigenia in Tauride

Jommelli

Anna Lucia de Amicis

Iphigenia/Iphigénie

s

Iphigénie en Aulide

Gluck

Sophie Arnould

Iphigenia/Iphigénie

s

Iphigénie en Tauride

Gluck

Rosalie Levasseur

Role

Voice

Opera

Composer

Singer

Iphise

s

Dardanus

Rameau

Marie Pélissier

Iphise

s

Les Fêtes d'Hébé

Rameau

Marie Pélissier

Ircano

b

Gl' amanti generosi

Mancini

Giuseppe Ferrari da Ferrara

Ircano

b

Ricciardo e Zoraide

Rossini

Michele Benedetti

Irene

a

Atalanta

Handel

Maria Caterina Negri

Irene

ms

Bajazet

Gasparini

Faustina Bordoni

Irene

a

Muzio Scevola

Handel

Anastasia Robinson

Irene

a

Tamerlano

Handel

Anna Vincenza Dotti

Iris

s

Iris

Mascagni

Hariclea Darclée

Irmengard

s

Agnes von Hohenstaufen

Spontini

Anna Milder-Hauptmann

Isaac

b

Riccardo Primo

Handel

Giuseppe Boschi

Isabella

a

L’italiana in Algeri

Rossini

Marietta Marcolini

Isabelle

s

Robert le diable

Meyerbeer

Laure Cinti-Damoreau

Isacio/Isaac

b

Riccardo Primo

Handel

Giuseppe Boschi

Ismaele

t

Nabucco

Verdi

Corrado Miraglia

Ismene

s

Alceste (Italian version, 1767)

Gluck

Teresa Eberadi

Ismene

s

Mitridate

Mozart

Anna Francesca Varese

Ismenor

b

Dardanus

Rameau

François Le Page

Isolde

s

Tristan und Isolde

Wagner

Marvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Isolier

ms

Le comte Ory

Rossini

Constance Jawureck

Issé

s

Issé

Destouches

Mlle Desmatins

Italian Tenor

t

Der Rosenkavalier

Strauss, R.

Fritz Soot

Ivan Susanin

b

A Life for the Tsar

Glinka

Osip Petrov

Ivan the Terrible

b

The Maid of Pskov

Rimsky-Korsakov

Osip Petrov

Ivan Vassil'evich Lomov

t

Una domanda di matrimonio

Chailly

Luigi Alva


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