Le maschere (The Masks) is an opera in a prologue and three acts by Pietro Mascagni to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica.

The work was Mascagni's homage to Rossini and to the Italian opera buffa and commedia dell'arte traditions.

Apart from the performance in Rome, conducted by Mascagni himself (and later in the first run by his pupil Roberto Moranzoni), Le maschere received a dismal reception, with the performance in Genoa suspended halfway through because of the audience's vociferous expressions of displeasure.

The opera was sporadically performed in Italy over the next four years and then sank into obscurity.

In the prologue, a travelling commedia dell'arte troupe and their impresario present the characters they are about to play.