Antonio Sacchini

Antonio Maria Gasparo Sacchini (14 June 1730 – 6 October 1786) was an Italian opera composer.

Sacchini was born in Florence, but was raised in Naples, where he received his musical education at the San Onofrio conservatory. He wrote his first operas in Naples, thereafter moving to Venice, then London and eventually Paris, where he died. He was one of the leading composers of opera seria.

Operas

Title Genre Acts Premiere (place) Premiere (date)
Fra Donato intermezzo 2 acts Naples 1756
Il giocatore intermezzo Naples 1757
Olimpia tradita commedia Naples 1758
Il copista burlato commedia Naples 1759
La vendemmia intermezzo 1 act Rome, revised Barcelona 1760, 1767
Il testaccio opera buffa Rome 1760
I due fratelli beffati Naples 1760
Andromaca opera seria Naples 30 May 1761
La finta contessa farsetta Rome 1761
Li due bari opera buffa Naples 1762
L'amore in campo dramma giocoso 2 acts Rome 1762
Alessandro Severo opera seria 3 acts Venice Carnival 1763
Alessandro nell'Indie opera seria Venice 1763
Olimpiade opera seria 3 acts Padua 1763
Semiramide riconosciuta opera seria 3 acts Rome 1764
Eumene opera seria Florence 1764
Il gran Cidde Rome 1764
Lucio Vero opera seria Naples 4 November 1764
Il finto pazzo per amore intermezzo 2 acts Rome 1765
Creso opera seria 3 acts Naples, revised London 1765, 1774
La contadina in corte opera buffa Rome, revised London 1765, 1782
L'isola d'amore dramma giocoso 2 acts Rome 1766
Le contadine bizzarre Milan 1766
Artaserse opera seria 3 acts Rome 1768
Nicoraste opera seria 3 acts Venice 1769
Scipione in Cartagena opera seria Munich 8 January 1770
Calliroe opera seria Ludwigsburg 1770
L'eroe cinese opera seria Munich 1770
Adriano in Siria opera seria Venice 1770
Ezio opera seria Naples 1771
Armida opera seria 3 acts Milan 1772
Vologeso opera seria Parma 1772
Tamerlano opera seria London 1773
Il Cid opera seria London 19 January 1773
Perseo opera seria 3 acts London 1774
Nitteti opera seria 3 acts London 1774
Montezuma opera seria 3 acts London 1775
Erifile opera seria 3 acts London 1778
L'amore soldato dramma giocoso 3 acts London 1778
L'avaro deluso, o Don Calandrino dramma giocoso 3 acts London 1778
Enea e Lavinia opera seria 3 acts London 1779
Mitridate opera seria London 1781
Renaud 3 acts Paris 1783 score
Chimène (revision of Il gran Cidde) tragédie lyrique 3 acts Fontainebleau 1783
Dardanus tragédie 4 acts Paris 1784 score
Œdipe à Colone tragédie lyrique 3 acts Versailles 4 January 1786 score
Arvire et Evelina
(incomplete, finished by Jean-Baptiste Rey)		 tragédie lyrique 3 acts Paris 1788

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