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#	Title	Genre	Year	Metric
1	Hamlet	Tragedy	1623	141
2	Macbeth	Tragedy	1623	104
3	Othello	Tragedy	1622	91
4	King Lear	Tragedy	1608	91
5	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Comedy	1600	81
6	Carmen	Opera	1850	74
7	The Tempest	Tragedy	1623	71
8	The Merchant of Venice	Tragedy	1600	68
9	The Magic Flute	Opera	1800	66
10	La traviata	Opera Tragedy	1900	63
11	Madama Butterfly	Opera Tragedy	1904	62
12	The Marriage of Figaro	Opera	1785	62
13	Twelfth Night	Tragedy	1623	62
14	Don Giovanni	Opera	1787	61
15	Tosca	Opera	1900	61
16	As You Like It	Comedy	1623	59
17	Rigoletto		1850	58
18	Tartuffe	Comedy	1669	56
19	Antony and Cleopatra	Tragedy	1623	55
20	Nabucco	Opera	1841	54
21	Turandot	Opera	1921	53
22	The Taming of the Shrew	Comedy	1623	52
23	The Miser	Comedy	1668	52
24	Tristan und Isolde	Opera	1850	51
25	The Comedy of Errors	Comedy	1734	51
26	A Doll's House		1879	51
27	The Barber of Seville	Opera	1815	50
28	Much Ado About Nothing	Comedy	1600	50
29	La bohème	Opera	1850	49
30	Fidelio	Opera	1850	48
31	Il trovatore	Opera	1852	48
32	Così fan tutte	Opera	1792	48
33	Cavalleria rusticana	Opera	1850	47
34	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Tony Award for Best Play		2016	47
35	Coriolanus	Tragedy	1623	47
36	The Threepenny Opera	Comedy	1931	46
37	Pagliacci		1850	46
38	Peer Gynt	Drama	1867	46
39	Timon of Athens	Tragedy	1623	46
40	Three Sisters	Drama	1901	46
41	Measure for Measure		1623	46
42	The Winter's Tale	Comedy	1623	46
43	Eugene Onegin		1879	45
44	Otello	Opera	1850	45
45	Parsifal	Opera	1850	45
46	The Cherry Orchard	Tragedy	1904	45
47	Lohengrin	Opera	1850	44
48	Don Carlos	Opera	1850	44
49	Boléro		1929	44
50	All's Well That Ends Well	Comedy	1623	43
51	Pygmalion	Comedy	1913	43
52	The Seagull	Comedy	1896	43
53	The Merry Wives of Windsor	Comedy	1602	43
54	La forza del destino	Opera	1850	42
55	Un ballo in maschera	Opera	1850	42
56	Falstaff	Opera	1850	42
57	The Flying Dutchman	Opera	1850	41
58	Der Freischütz	Opera Romance	1821	41
59	Die Walküre	Opera Drama	1850	41
60	Das Rheingold	Opera	1850	40
61	Manon Lescaut	Opera	1850	40
62	The Imaginary Invalid		1673	40
63	Uncle Vanya	Drama	1897	40
64	Faust	Opera	1859	39
65	Lucia di Lammermoor	Opera	1850	39
66	Tannhäuser	Opera	1850	39
67	Love's Labour's Lost		1598	39
68	The Misanthrope	Comedy	1666	39
69	The Queen of Spades		1890	38
70	Götterdämmerung	Opera Drama	1850	38
71	Norma	Opera	1850	38
72	Henry IV, Part 1	History	1597	38
73	Richard II	History	1595	38
74	R.U.R.	Drama	1920	38
75	Salome	Opera	2000	37
76	Die Entführung aus dem Serail	Opera	1786	37
77	L'elisir d'amore	Opera	1850	37
78	Siegfried	Opera Drama	1850	37
79	The Tales of Hoffmann	Opera	1881	37
80	King John	History	1623	37
81	Cymbeline	Comedy	1623	37
82	Orfeo ed Euridice	Opera	1800	36
83	Macbeth	Opera Tragedy	1850	36
84	Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg	Opera	1868	36
85	Der Rosenkavalier	Opera	2000	36
86	Simon Boccanegra	Opera	1850	36
87	Idomeneo	Opera	1800	35
88	Gianni Schicchi	Opera	2000	35
89	William Tell	Opera	1829	35
90	The Bartered Bride	Opera	1866	35
91	Pericles, Prince of Tyre		1609	35
92	Don Pasquale	Opera	1850	34
93	La Fille du régiment	Opera	1840	34
94	La Cenerentola	Opera	1816	34
95	Ernani	Opera	1850	34
96	La clemenza di Tito	Opera	1800	34
97	The Firebird		1910	34
98	Boris Godunov		1874	33
99	Henry VIII	History	1623	33
100	Rinaldo	Opera	1800	32