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- Macbeth (William Shakespeare, c. 1605)
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- 1825 music by Louis Spohr, Op. 75
- 1834 music by Julius Rietz
- 1888 music by Arthur Sullivan
- 1920 music by Johan Halvorsen
- 1933 music by Aram Khachaturian (also 1955)
- 1936 music by Cemal Reşit Rey
- 1936 music by Virgil Thomson (for the Orson Welles production)
- 1937 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 175
- 1942 music by William Walton
- music by Boris Asafyev (died 1949)
- 1949 music by Norman Demuth
- 1949 music by Peter Tranchell
- 1955 music by Aram Khachaturian (also 1933)
- Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert, 1856; novel)
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- music by Dmitri Kabalevsky
- The Maid of Orleans (Die Jungfrau von Orleans; Friedrich Schiller, 1801)
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- music by August Söderman
- The Maid of Pskov (Lev Mei)
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- 1877 music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, rev. 1882 (a different work than his opera on the same subject)
- Le Malade imaginaire (Molière, 1673)
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- music by Ludomir Różycki
- Manfred (Lord Byron, c. 1817)
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- 1849 music by Robert Schumann, Op. 115 (produced 1852)
- 1898 music by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Op. 58 (not produced)
- Margot (Édouard Bourdet)
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- 1935 music by Georges Auric and Francis Poulenc
- Les Mariés de la Tour Eiffel (The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower; Jean Cocteau)
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- 1921 music by Georges Auric, Arthur Honegger, Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Germaine Tailleferre, orchestrated by Marius Constant
- Mariotta (Carl Borgaard, based on a comedy by Eugène Scribe)
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- 1850 music by music by Niels Gade
- Marmion (Robert Buchanan, based on Sir Walter Scott's poem Marmion, 1808)
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- 1891 music by Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Op. 43
- The Marriage of Figaro (Pierre Beaumarchais, 1778)
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- 1935 music by Yuri Shaporin
- Mary Stuart (Friedrich Schiller, 1800)
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- music by Vissarion Shebalin
- Masquerade (Mikhail Lermontov, 1835)
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- music by Vissarion Shebalin
- 1941 music by Aram Khachaturian
- Masse Mensch (Ernst Toller, 1921)
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- music by Heinz Tiessen (died 1971)
- Master Olof (August Strindberg, 1872)
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- music by Tor Aulin (died 1914)
- The Mayor of Zalamea (El Alcalde de Zalamea; Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
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- 1836 music by Julius Rietz
- Measure for Measure (William Shakespeare, c. 1604)
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- music by Dmitri Kabalevsky
- Medea (Euripides, 431 BC)
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- 1843 music by Wilhelm Taubert
- 1938 music by Sándor Veress
- 1942 music by Marios Varvoglis
- Le Médecin volant (Vildrae, after Molière, 1645)
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- 1937 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 165
- Médée (Jean Anouilh, 1946)
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- 1948 music by Norman Demuth
- The Merchant (Mercator; Plautus)
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- 1950 music by İlhan Usmanbaş (for 2 flutes)
- The Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare. c. 1597)
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- 1871 music by Arthur Sullivan
- 1905 music by Engelbert Humperdinck
- 1917 music by Henri Rabaud
- music by Johan Halvorsen (died 1935)
- music by Boris Asafyev (died 1949)
- 1950 music by Peter Tranchell
- music by Ludomir Różycki (died 1953)
- Merlin (Karl Leberecht Immermann, 1831)
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- music by Heinz Tiessen (died 1971)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor (William Shakespeare, c. 1600)
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- 1874 music by Arthur Sullivan
- music by Franz Salmhofer (died 1975)
- Michael Strogoff (Jules Verne and Adolphe D'Ennery; an adaptation of Verne's 1876 novel)
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- 1880 music by Jules Massenet
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (William Shakespeare, c. 1595)
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- music by Felix Mendelssohn (overture 1826; remaining music 1843, including the Wedding March)
- music by Carl Orff (1917-39; revised 1962)
- The Mighty Magician (El Mágico prodigioso; Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
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- music by Josef Rheinberger
- The Miserly Knight (Alexander Pushkin, 1830)
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- music by Vissarion Shebalin
- The Misanthrope (Molière, 1666)
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- 1950 music by Norman Demuth
- Mother Courage and Her Children (Bertolt Brecht, 1939)
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- 1959 music by Darius Milhaud, Op. 379 (Mother Courage)
- Mozart and Salieri (Alexander Pushkin, 1830)
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- music by Vissarion Shebalin
- Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare, c. 1598)
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- 1915 music by Johan Halvorsen
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