Opera
- Cleopatra (1779) by Pasquale Anfossi
- Antony and Cleopatra by Samuel Barber
- La Mort de Cléopâtre (1829) (cantata) by Hector Berlioz
- Antoine et Cléopâtre (1972) by Emmanuel Bondeville
- Cleopatra (1904) (tone poem) by George Whitefield Chadwick
- La Cleopatra by Domenico Cimarosa
- Omnium (2005) by Norman Durkee
- Antoine et Cléopâtre (2006) by Lewis Furey (adapted from Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra)
- "Variation de Cléopâtre" (from Faust) by Charles Gounod
- Cleopatra e Cesare (1742) by Carl Heinrich Graun
- Great Caesar (1899) (burlesque) by George Grossmith, Jr. and Paul Rubens
- Cleopatra's Night by Henry Kimball Hadley
- Giulio Cesare by George Frideric Handel
- Antonio e Cleopatra (1725) (serenata) by Johann Adolph Hasse
- Antonio e Cleopatra (1937) by Gian Francesco Malipiero
- Cléopâtre by Jules-Émile-Frédéric Massenet
- Die unglückselige Kleopatra, Königin von Ägypten (1704) by Johann Mattheson
- Antonio e Cleopatra (1701) (serenata) by Alessandro Scarlatti
- Die Perlen der Kleopatra (1923) by Oscar Straus
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“A pretty air in an opera is prettier there than it could be anywhere else, I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The opera house sparkled with tiers
And tiers of eyes, like mine enlarged by belladonna,”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)