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Baby Names from Opera Titles

Female:

Adelaide
Adelia
Adriana
Agrippina
Aida
Alceste
Alcina
Alexandra
Alzira
Amelia
Angelica
Anna
Antigone
Ariadne
Ariane
Armida
Beatrice
Beatrix
Bertha
Bess
Carmen
Céphise
Charlotte
Dafne
Dalila
Daphne
Dido
Djamileh
Dolores
Elektra
Esclarmonde
Euridice
Evangeline
Fedora
Fifi
Florencia
Francesca
Galatea
Genevieve
Genoveva
Giaconda
Giovanna
Gloriana
Gretel
Helena
Helene
Iphigenie
Iolanta
Iris
Isolde
Jenůfa
Judith
Julie
Juliet
Káťa (Katerina)
Kate
Lakmé
Loreley
Louise
Lucia
Lucretia
Lucrezia
Luisa
Lulu
Lyudmila
Manon
Margaret
Maria
Marilyn
Martha
Mavra
Médée
Mélisande
Mignon
Mlada
Nina
Norma
Oresteia
Patience
Polixène (Polyxene, Polyxena)
Polyphème
Poppea (Poppaea)
Rodelinda
Rogneda
Salammbô
Salome
Šárka
Semele
Semiramide
Susannah
Szibill (Cybil)
Thaïs
Tirésias (Therese)
Tosca (this is a surname in the opera but I couldn't resist)
Treemonisha
Turandot (Turan-Dokht)
Vanessa
Venus
Vera
Violet
Yerma
Zaide

 Male:

Abu Hassan
Achille
Acis
Acteon
Admeto
Adonis
Aeneas
Akhnaten
Alahor
Albert
Alessandro
Alessio
Alexander
Amadis
Amahl
Andrea
Angelo
Apollo
Ariodante
Aroldo
Ascanio
Attila
Atys
Bellerofonte
Belisario
Billy
Boris
Byron
Candide
Carlos
Charles
Cyrano
Dalibor
Dardanus
Edgar
Ernani
Ero
Eugene
Faust
Fritz
Galileo
Gianni
Giovanni
Giulio
Guillaume
Hansel
Háry
Hugh
Idomeneo
Ivan
Juha
Koanga
Leo
Lohengrin
Louis
Mateo
Mathis
Mefistofele
Motezuma
Nabucco
Nicholas
Oberto
Oedipus
Orfeo
Orpheus
Orlando
Oscar
Otello
Owen
Parsifal
Pasquale
Pedro
Pelléas
Peter
Radamisto
Rinaldo
Roberto
Rodrigo
Roger
Romeo
Ruggiero
Ruslan
Sadko
Salvatore
Samson
Scipio
Serse
Siegfried
Simon
Stiffelio
Sun
Švanda
Tancredi
Tito
Tristan
Ulisse
Wally
William
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