This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851).
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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Li puntigli delle donne | farsetta per musica | 2 acts | Carnival 1796 | Rome, Pallacorda di firenze | |
Adelina Senese o sia l'Amore secreto | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati, La principessa d'Amalfi | 10 October 1797 | Venice, Teatro S. Samuele |
Il finto pittore | 1797/1798; 1800 | Rome (?); Palermo, Teatro S. Cecilia | |||
L’eroismo ridicolo | farsa per musica | 1 act | D. Piccinni | Carnival 1798 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo |
Il Teseo riconosciuto | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Cosimo Giotti | 22 May 1798 | Florence, Regio Teatro degli Intrepidi |
La finta filosofa | commedia per musica | 2 acts | D. Piccinni | 1 July 1799 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo |
La fuga in maschera | 2 acts | G. Palomba | Carnival, 1800 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo | |
I quadri parlanti | melodramma buffo | 1800 | Palermo, Teatro S. Cecilia | ||
Gli Elisi delusi | melodramma buffo | 2 acts | M. Monti | 28 August 1800 | Palermo, Teatro S. Cecilia |
Gli amanti in cimento, o sia Il geloso audace | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati | 3 November 1801 | Rome, Teatro Valle |
Le metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo | farsa giocoso per musica | 1 act | Giuseppe Foppa | Carnival 1802 | Venice, Teatro Giustiniani in S. Moisè |
La petite maison | opéra comique | 3 acts | Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and N. Gersin | 12 May 1804 | Paris, Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
Milton | fait historique | 1 act | Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy | 27 November 1804 | Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart |
Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs | comédie en prose, mêlée de chants | 1 act | Antoine Gabriel Jars | 12 March 1805 | Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart |
La vestale | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Monumenti antichi inediti, (1767) | Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after15 December 1807 (French); 26 December 1824 (Italian) | Paris, Opéra (French); Milan, Teatro alla Scala (Italian) |
Fernand Cortez ou La conquête de Mexique; third version: Fernand Cortez oder Die Eroberung von Mexiko | opéra | 3 acts | Alexis Piron; second version: revised by Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy; third version: revised by Emmanuel Théaulon, translated by J. C. May; fourth version: revised by K. von Lichtenstein | Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy and Joseph-Alphonse d'Esménard, after28 November 1809; second version: 28 May 1817; third version: 6 April 1824; fourth version: 26 February 1832 | Paris, Opéra (first and second versions) ; Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (third and fourth versions) |
Pélage, ou Le roi et la paix | opéra | 2 acts | Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy | 23 August 1814 | Paris, Opéra |
Rudolphe Kreutzer, L.-L. Loiseau de Persius and Henri Montan Berton) | Les dieux rivaux, ou Les fêtes de Cythère; (Together with:opéra-ballet | 1 act | Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut | 21 June 1816 | Paris, Opéra |
Olimpie; second version in German as Olimpia; third version again in French as Olimpie | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Voltaire; second version: translated and revised by E. T. A. Hoffmann | Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut, after22 December 1819; second version: 14 May 1821; third version: 28 February 1826 | Paris, Opéra; Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (second version); Paris, Opéra (third version) |
Nurmahal, oder das Rosenfest von Caschmir | lyrisches Drama mit Ballet | 2 acts | Carl Alexander Herklots, after T. Moore, Lalla Rookh | 27 May 1822 | Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus |
Alcidor | Zauberoper mit Ballet | 3 acts | Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume Théaulon de Lambert and C. Nutty, after Rochon de Chabannes; German translation: Carl Alexander Herklots | Prince Frederick of the Netherlands and Princess Louise of Prussia (21 May 1825) | 23 May 1825; on the occasion of the marriage ofBerlin, Königliches Opernhaus |
Agnes von Hohenstaufen | lyrisches Drama | 3 acts[N 1] | Ernst Raupach (first and second version), revised by Karl August von Lichtenstein and the composer (third version) | 28 May 1827 (first version, consisting of the first act only); 12 June 1829 (second version in 3 acts); 6 December 1837 (third version in 3 acts) | Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (all versions) |