List of operas by Spontini

This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851).

List

Title Genre Sub­divisions Libretto Première date Place, theatre
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 Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Monumenti antichi inediti, (1767) 15 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 Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy and Joseph-Alphonse d'Esménard, after 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 28 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
Les dieux rivaux, ou Les fêtes de Cythère; (Together with: Rudolphe Kreutzer, L.-L. Loiseau de Persius and Henri Montan Berton) 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 Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut, after Voltaire; second version: translated and revised by E. T. A. Hoffmann 22 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 23 May 1825; on the occasion of the marriage of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands and Princess Louise of Prussia (21 May 1825) Berlin, 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)
  1. ^ originally planned for 2 acts

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