Ricimero, re de' Goti

Rinaldo (1711) — George Frideric Handel

Rinaldo d'Asti (1796) — Gennaro Astarita (Astaritta)

Robin Hood (1784) — Ferdinando Bertoni

Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi

Roderigo (1696) — Giovanni Battista Bassani

Rodrigo (1707) — George Frideric Handel

Roland (1685) — Jean-Baptiste Lully

Romeo und Julie (1776) — Georg Anton (Jiří Antonín) Benda

Romolo ed Ersilia

Rosamond (1733) — Thomas Augustine Arne

Rosiclea in Dania (1721) — Antonio Maria Bononcini

Rosmunda (1762) — Carlo Cecere

San Paolo in Atene (1740) — Giuseppe Bonno

Sardanapalus (1698) — Christian Ludwig Boxberg

Satrapone (1734) — Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

Scipione

Scipione Africano (1664) — Francesco Cavalli

Scipione nelle Spagne

Seleuco (1744) — Francesco Araja