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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Role

Voice

Opera

Composer

Singer

Tacmas

hc

Les Indes galantes

Rameau

Denis-François Tribou

Taddeo

b

L’italiana in Algeri

Rossini

Paolo Rosich

Talbot

b

Maria Stuarda

Donizetti

Ignazio Marini

Talpa

b

Il tabarro

Puccini

Adam Didur

Tamas

t

Gemma di Vergy

Donizetti

Domenico Reina

Tamerlane/Tamerlano

a

Tamerlano

Handel

Andrea Pacini

Tamino

t

Die Zauberflöte

Mozart

Benedikt Schack

Tancredi

a

Tancredi

Rossini

Adelaide Malanotte

Tannhäuser

t

Tannhäuser

Wagner

Joseph Tichatschek

Tarabotto

b

L'inganno felice

Rossini

Filippo Galli

Tarquinius

bt

The Rape of Lucretia

Britten

Otakar Kraus

Role

Voice

Opera

Composer

Singer

Tatyana

s

Yevgeny Onegin

Tchaikovsky

Maria Nikolayevna Klimentova

Tauride

s

Arianna in Creta

Handel

Margherita Durastanti

Taverner

t

Taverner

Davies

Ragnar Ulfung

Tebaldo

t

I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Bellini

Lorenzo Bonfigli

Telaira/Télaïre

s

Castor et Pollux

Rameau

Marie Pélissier

Telaira/Télaïre

s

Castore e Polluce

Vogler

Margarethe Marchande

Telemaco

s

Telemaco

Gluck

Gaetano Guadagni

Temistocle

t

Temistocle

Bach

Anton Raaff

Temps, Le

bt

Atys

Lully

Baumavielle

Tempter

t

The Prodigal Son

Britten

Peter Pears

Tenor

t

Un re in ascolto

Berio

Thomas Moser

Teodata

a

Flavio

Handel

Anastasia Robinson

Teodoro

bt

Il re Teodoro in Venezia

Paisiello

Stefano Mandini

Teofane

s

Ottone

Handel

Francesca Cuzzoni

Teresa

s

Benvenuto Cellini

Berlioz

Julie Dorus-Gras

Teseo

s

Teseo

Handel

Valeriano Pellegrini

Teseo/Theseus

ms

Arianna in Creta

Handel

Giovanni Carestini

Teucer

b

Dardanus

Rameau

François Le Page

Thaïs

s

Thaïs

Massenet

Sibyl Sanderson

Thea

ms

The Knot Garden

Tippett

Yvonne Minton

Role

Voice

Opera

Composer

Singer

Thérèse

s

Les mamelles de Tirésias

Poulenc

Denise Duval

Thérèse

ms

Thérèse

Massenet

Lucy Arbell

Theseus

a

Arianna in Nasso

Porpora

Senesino

Theseus/Thésée

b

Hippolyte et Aricie

Rameau

Claude Louis Dominique Chassé

Theseus/Thésée

hc

Thésée

Lully

Bernard Cledière

Thetis

s

Thétis et Pélée

Collasse

Marie Le Rochois

Third Tempter

b

Assassinio nella cattedrale

Pizzetti

Nicola Zaccaria

Thoas

b

Iphigénie en Tauride

Gluck

Moreau

Tichon Kabanov

t

Kát’a Kabanová

Janáček

Pavel Jeral

Tigrana

s

Edgar

Puccini

Romilda Pantaleoni

Timante

s

Floridante

Handel

Benedetto Baldassari

Timur, King

b

Turandot

Puccini

Carlo Walter

Tina

ms

The Aspern Papers

Argento

Frederica Von Stade

Tinca

b

Il tabarro

Puccini

Angelo Bada

Tiresias

b/bt

Oedipe

Enescu

Bertrand Etcheverry

Tiresias/Tiresia

t

The Bassarids

Henze

Helmut Melchert

Tiresias/Tiresia

t

Ulisse

Dallapiccola

Helmut Melchert

Tirésie

b

Naïs

Rameau

François Le Page

Tiridate

t

Radamisto

Handel

Benedetto Baldassari

Tirinthus

ms

Imeneo

Handel

Giovanni Andreoni

Role

Voice

Opera

Composer

Singer

Tita

b

Una cosa rara

Martín y Soler

Francesco Benucci

Titania/Tytania

s

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Britten

Jennifer Vyvyan

Titurel

b/bt

Parsifal

Wagner

August Kindermann

Titus/Tito

t

La clemenza di Tito

Mozart

Antonio Baglioni

Tokmakov

bt

The Maid of Pskov

Rimsky-Korsakov

Ivan Mel'nikov

Tolomeo/Ptolemy

a

Tolomeo

Handel

Senesino

Tom Rakewell

t

The Rake’s Progress

Stravinsky

Robert Rounseville

Toms Blunt

b

Der Vampyr

Marschner

Wilhelm Fischer

Tomsky, Count

bt

The Queen of Spades

Tchaikovsky

Ivan Mel'nikov

Tonio

t

La fille du régiment

Donizetti

Mécène Marié de L'Isle

Tonio/Taddeo

bt

Pagliacci

Leoncavallo

Victor Maurel

Torquato Tasso

bt

Torquato Tasso

Donizetti

Giorgio Ronconi

Torvaldo

t

Torvaldo e Dorliska

Rossini

Domenico Donzelli

Toulouse, Count of

bt

Jérusalem (French revision of I Lombardi)

Verdi

Charles Portheaut

Traveller

bb

Death in Venice

Britten

John Shirley-Quirk

Trinity Moses/Dreieinigkeitsmoses

bt, b

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny

Weill

Walther Zimmer

Tristan

t

Tristan und Isolde

Wagner

Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld

Tristan Mickleford, Sir

b

Martha

Flotow

Carl Just

Trofonio

b

La grotta di Trofonio

Salieri

Francesco Benucci

Troilus

t

Troilus and Cressida

Walton

Richard Lewis

Truchsess von Waldburg

b

Mathis der Maler

Hindemith

Marko Rothmüller

Truffaldino

t

The Love for Three Oranges

Prokofiev

Octave Dua

Trulove

b

The Rake's Progress

Stravinsky

Raffaele Ariè

Tullius

a

Arminio

Handel

Maria Caterina Negri

Turandot, Princess

s

Turandot

Puccini

Rosa Raisa

Turiddu

t

Cavalleria rusticana

Mascagni

Roberto Stagno

Tutor

bt

Le comte Ory

Rossini

Nicolas Levasseur


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