The Soochow School of opera was centered around a rather large group of individuals who lived at the end of the Ming and early Ch'ing and worked in the opera field. They not only were famous and popular at the time, but they wrote operas (mostly sagas) in great numbers. Many of their works survive today and are still being performed. In fact, in the history of opera, none surpassed this group either before of after them. The present article proceeds to examine only some of the prodigious works of the Soochow School of opera.