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/