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

Vakula

t

Christmas Eve

Rimsky-Korsakov

Ivan Vasil′yevich Yershov

Vakula

t

Vakula the Smith

Tchaikovsky

Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky

Valente

t

Gli sposi malcontenti

Storace

Michael Kelly

Valentine

s

Les Huguenots

Meyerbeer

Cornélie Falcon

Valentiniano

a

Ezio

Handel

Anna Bagnolesi

Valère

hc

Les Indes galantes

Rameau

Pierre de Jelyotte

Valery

t

Servilia

Rimsky-Korsakov

Ivan Vasil′yevich Yershov

Valletto

s

L’incoronazione di Poppea

Monteverdi

Rabocchio

Váňa Kudrjáš

t

Kát’a Kabanová

Janáček

Valentin Šindler

Vanessa

s

Vanessa

Barber

Eleanor Steber

Vanuzzi

b

Die schweigsame Frau

Strauss, R.

Kurt Böhme

Vanya

a

A Life for the Tsar

Glinka

Anna Petrova Yakovlevna

Varlaam

b

Boris Godunov (first Rimsky-Korsakov version, 1896)

Musorgsky

Fyodor Stravinsky

Varlaam

b

Boris Godunov (original version, 1874)

Musorgsky

Osip Petrov

Varo

b

Ezio

Handel

Antonio Montagnana

Varus

t

Arminio

Handel

John Beard

Varvara

ms

Kát’a Kabanová

Janáček

Jarmila Pustinská

Varvara

ms

Ne tol'ko lyubov

Shchedrin

Irina Arkhipova

Vasco da Gama

t

L’Africaine

Meyerbeer

Emilio Naudin

Role

Voice

Opera

Composer

Singer

Vasily Golitsïn, Prince

t

Khovanshchina

Musorgsky

Ivan Vasil′yevich Yershov

Vaudémont

t

Iolanta

Tchaikovsky

Nikolay Nikolayevich Figner

Veit Pogner

b

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Wagner

Kaspar Bausewein

Venus

s

Dardanus

Rameau

Mlle Eremans

Venus

s

Le Grand Macabre

Ligeti

Monika Laven

Venus

s

Pirame et Thisbé

Francoeur, F. and Rebel, F.

Mlle Eremans

Venus/Vénus

s

Tannhäuser

Wagner

Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient

Vere, Captain

t

Billy Budd

Britten

Peter Pears

Vespina

s

L’infedeltà delusa

Haydn

Maddalena Friberth

Vicar

b

Der Besuch der alten Dame

Einem

Manfred Jungwirth

Village Head

b

May Night

Rimsky-Korsakov

Fyodor Stravinsky

Vincent

t

Mireille

Gounod

François Morini

Violanta

ms

Violanta

Korngold

Luise Willer

Violante Onesti, Marchioness

s

La finta giardiniera

Mozart

Rosa Manservisi

Violetta

s

La traviata

Verdi

Fanny Salvini-Donatelli

Virgil Thomson

bt

The Mother of Us All

Thomson

Bertram Rowe

Vitalian

t

Giustino

Handel

John Beard

Vitellia

s

La clemenza di Tito

Mozart

Maria Marchetti Fantozzi

Vitige

s

Flavio

Handel

Margherita Durastanti

Role

Voice

Opera

Composer

Singer

Vito Amante

t

Mala vita

Giordano

Roberto Stagno

Vladimir

b

Rogneda

Serov

Osip Petrov

Vodník

b

Rusalka

Dvořák

Václav Kliment

Vogelsang

t

Der Schauspieldirektor

Mozart

Valentin Adamberger

Volkhova

s

Sadko

Rimsky-Korsakov

Nadeshda Zabela

Vreli

s

A Village Romeo and Juliet

Delius

Lola Artot de Padilla

Vsevolod, Princeling

t

Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh

Rimsky-Korsakov

Andrey Labinsky


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