Operas

Tchaikovsky completed eleven operas between 1867 and 1891:

TH	ČW	Opus	Title	Description	Year
1	1	3	The Voyevoda	Opera in 3 acts and 4 scenes	1867–68
2	2	—	Undina	Opera in 3 acts	1869
3	3	—	The Oprichnik	Opera in 4 acts and 5 scenes	1870–72
4	4	14	Vakula the Smith	Comic opera in 3 acts and 8 scenes	1874
5	5	24	Yevgeny Onegin	Lyrical scenes in 3 acts and 7 tableaux	1877–78
6	6	—	The Maid of Orleans	Opera in 4 acts and 6 scenes	1878–79
7	7	—	Mazepa	Opera in 3 acts and 6 scenes	1881–83
8	8	—	Cherevichki	Comic-fantastic opera in 4 acts and 8 scenes	1885
9	9	—	The Enchantress	Opera in 4 acts	1885–87
10	10	68	The Queen of Spades	Opera in 3 acts and 7 scenes	1890
11	11	69	Iolanta	Lyric opera in one act	1891

In addition to the above projects, single scenes survive for two further operas which were not completed: Mandragora (1869–70) and Romeo and Juliet (1878–81).

Tchaikovsky also gave serious consideration to the following operatic subjects: Hyperbola (1854); The Storm (1864–67?); The Palm (?1867–68); Alexander of Macedon (1868); Raimond Lully (1870); Ephraim (1875–76); Francesca da Rimini (1876); Othello (1876–77); Undina (1878-93); Les Caprices de Marianne (1878-88); Vanka the Steward (1881); The Captain's Daughter (1885–88); The Bayadere (1888); La Courtisane (Sadia) (1888–91); Béla (1889–93); The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton (1893); Mister Gilfil's Love Story (1893); and Adam Bede (1893).

He also provided additional recitatives and an introductory chorus to Auber's opera Le Domino noir (1868), and adapted Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro for the Russian stage (1875).