Bob Draper: >Off the top of my head Haydn wrote 12 operas Beethoven 1, Tchaikovsky 1. Surely not. Is this a typo? I can name the following Tchaikovsky operas: Yevgeny Onegin, Pique Dame, Jeanne d'Arc, Yolanta, and The Snow Maiden (Rimsky also wrote an opera on this story). Steve Schwartz