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Jules Massenet. Unique features: Focuses on internal emotion and introspection, has a highly chromatic and melodic score, and includes the aria 'Pourquoi me réveiller'.

Charles Gounod. Unique features: Blend of Italianate melodic lines and French romantic drama, includes a series of beautiful duets, and follows Shakespeare's famous tragedy.

Hector Berlioz. Unique features: Characterized by high-energy and vivacious music, depicts the life of Florentine sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, and includes the musical depiction of the casting of the Perseus statue.

Ernest Reyer. Unique features: Inspired by Norse legends and the Nibelungen, it presents grandiose music with Germanic influence, and incorporates heroic and mythical themes.

Camille Saint-Saëns. Unique features: A grand opera with biblical themes, includes exotic and oriental elements in its music and orchestrations, and features the seductive 'Bacchanale'.

Ambroise Thomas. Unique features: Adapts Shakespeare's tragedy into French grand opera, known for its dramatic coloratura roles, and unconventional ending in the original production.

Gioachino Rossini. Unique features: Though by an Italian composer, it is sung in French and integral to French opera canon, known for the Overture and its depiction of Swiss liberation, and presents a historic and patriotic narrative.

Giacomo Meyerbeer. Unique features: Integrates large choral and ballet scenes, displays innovative orchestration including the use of the saxophone, and presents themes of power and prophecy.

Hector Berlioz. Unique features: A grand opera in the tradition of epic storytelling, it is based on Virgil's 'Aeneid', and known for massive orchestral and choral requirements.

Jacques Offenbach. Unique features: An opéra fantastique reflecting the romanticism and exoticism of the 19th century, presents a meta-theatrical framing device, and includes the famous Barcarolle.

Jules Massenet. Unique features: Characterizes the French Belle Époque, features a balance between declamatory recitative and melodic arias, deft characterizations, and the famous Gavotte.

Charles Gounod. Unique features: Based on Goethe’s play, combines German literature with French lyricism, and known for the soldiers' chorus and the waltz.

Léo Delibes. Unique features: Exoticism through the depiction of British India and elements of orientalism, famous for the 'Flower Duet' and 'Bell aria', and displays a lyrical and romantic score.

Giacomo Meyerbeer. Unique features: Pioneered the genre of French Grand Opera, contains the notorious Ballet of the Nuns, and features innovative orchestration and dramatic staging.

Giacomo Meyerbeer. Unique features: A monumental work in the Grand Opera style, it portrays the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and demands a high level of vocal prowess across all leads.

Gustave Charpentier. Unique features: Portrays bohemian Parisian life in the late 19th century, is considered a novelistic opera with veristic themes, and includes the aria 'Depuis le jour'.

Ambroise Thomas. Unique features: Known for the contrast between German romanticism and French style, includes the aria 'Connais-tu le pays', and uses elements of Goethe's literary works.

Sergei Prokofiev. Unique features: Though by a Russian composer, it was first performed in French and styled as an opéra comique, known for its absurdist plot and surrealist elements, and includes the famous March.

Georges Bizet. Unique features: Incorporates realistic settings and situations, features spoken dialogue through recitatives, and includes a variety of musical styles.

Georges Bizet. Unique features: Set in Ceylon, illustrates the fascination with the exotic East, features the famous duet 'Au fond du temple saint', and has a romantic and dramatic score.

Francis Poulenc. Unique features: Deals with themes of faith and martyrdom during the French Revolution, characterized by austere and haunting music, and includes spoken word in place of sung recitatives.

Fromental Halévy. Unique features: Grand opera with historical and political depth, features extended musical numbers like the 'Rachel, quand du Seigneur' aria, and is admired for its technical demands on the singers.

Claude Debussy. Unique features: Reflects impressionism in music, characterized by sublimated emotions and suggestive orchestration, and avoids traditional arias and set pieces.

Gaetano Donizetti. Unique features: Though composed by an Italian, it is considered part of the French repertoire due to its French libretto, infamous for the tenor aria 'Ah! mes amis' with nine high Cs, and regarded as an opéra comique.