[1] The longest opera is Wagner's Ring Cycle, which lasts for about 15 hours - depending on performances / conductor etc. It is in four parts each an opera in its own right - Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung. [2] The longest frequently performed opera is Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg which can last over 5 hours. [3] However, during December 1973 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City a performance of 'The Life and Times of Joseph Stalin', by Robert Wilson, lasted almost 13 hr. 25 min.
Without knowing every opera, I guess Richard Wagner is probably on the top5 list.
the opera
Phantom of the Opera.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the music for the opera Così fan tutte.
the young and the restless
The opera Mefistofele was written by the Italian composer Arrigo Boito.
Without knowing every opera, I guess Richard Wagner is probably on the top5 list.
Without defining 'longest', probably the best known is 'Carmen' and she sings through out the opera.
He never wrote an opera.
the opera
Phantom of the Opera.
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote the music for the opera Così fan tutte.
Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote this modern opera.
the young and the restless
The opera Mefistofele was written by the Italian composer Arrigo Boito.
Gaston Leroux wrote the original book of Phantom of the Opera, but it was later made into a film/play by Andrew Lloyd Webber, who also wrote the music for it.
Pyotr Tchaikovsky