Composers

Learn more about opera’s composers including biographical details, musical style and notable works.

ENO Composer Alan Menken

Alan Menken

Black and white image of Alban-Berg sat in a chair

Alban Berg

ENO Composer Antonín Dvořák

Antonín Dvorák

Bela Bartok sat at a piano

Béla Bartók

Head and shoulders photograph of Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten

Black and white portrait of Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald Gluck

Claudio Monteverdi_(c.1630)

Claudio Monteverdi

Dame Ethel Mary Smyth

Black and White portrait of Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Erich Wolfgang Korngold

Black and white photograph of Franz Lehar

Franz Lehár

Portrait of Gaetano Donizetti holding paper and a quill

Gaetano Donizetti

Black and white portrait of George Frideric Handel

George Frideric Handel

Composer George Gershwin in the 1920s

George Gershwin

Georges Bizet

Giacomo Puccini

Gilbert & Sullivan headshots

Gilbert & Sullivan

head and shoulder portrait of Gioachino Rossini

Gioachino Rossini

Giuseppe Verdi

Harrison Birtwistle

Henryk Górecki

ENO Jack the Ripper composer Iain Bell (c) Frances Marshall

Iain Bell

Jacques Offenbach

Jake Heggie

Jeanine Tesori

Joanna Lee

ENO Composers John Adams

John Adams

ENO Composer Jonathan Dove

Jonathan Dove

ENO Composer Judith Weir

Judith Weir

Leoš Janáček

Ludwig van Beethoven

Marina Abramović at the press conference for the presentation of the retrospective The Cleaner of Palazzo Strozzi held at the Cinema Odeon Florence 19 Sep 2018. Photo by Francesco Pierantoni

Marina Abramović

ENO Composers Maurice Ravel

Maurice Ravel

ENO Composers Michael Tippett

Michael Tippett

Nico Muhly

ENO Composers Oliver Knussen

Oliver Knussen

Philip Glass

Poul Ruders

Richard Strauss

Richard Wagner

Sir Arthur Sullivan