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Trend by decade · Wikipedia editions
| # | 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 |