Bob Draper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Off the top of my head Haydn wrote 12 operas Beethoven 1, Tchaikovsky 1 ...

Actually Tchaikovsky wrote 11 operas, but only 'Eugene Onegin' and
'The Queen of Spades' are well-known outside Russia.

Brett Langston
The Tchaikovsky Web-Site
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/blangston/pitch/