List of operas by Spontini

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

List

TitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatre
puntigliLi puntigli delle donnefarsetta per musica2 actsunknownunknown1796-03-00Carnival 1796Rome, Pallacorda di firenze
Adelina Senese o sia l'Amore secretodramma giocoso2 actsBertatiGiovanni Bertati, after his libretto La principessa d'Amalfi for Joseph Weigl1797-10-1010 October 1797Venice, Teatro San Samuele
fintoIl finto pittoreunknownunknownunknownunknown1797-00-001797/1798; 1800Rome (?);
Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
eroismoL'eroismo ridicolofarsa per musica1 actPiccinniDomenico Piccinni1798-03-00Carnival 1798Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo
TeseoIl Teseo riconosciutodramma per musica2 actsGiottiCosimo Giotti1798-05-2222 May 1798Florence, Regio Teatro degli Intrepidi
fintaLa finta filosofacommedia per musica2 actsPiccinniDomenico Piccinni1799-07-011 July 1799Naples, Teatro Nuovo
fugaLa fuga in mascheraunknown2 actsPalombaGiuseppe Palomba1800-03-00Carnival 1800Naples, Teatro Nuovo
quadriI quadri parlantimelodramma buffounknownunknownunknown1800-05-001800Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
ElisiGli Elisi delusimelodramma buffo2 actsMontiMichelangelo Monti1800-08-2828 August 1800Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
amantiGli amanti in cimento, o sia Il geloso audacedramma per musica2 actsBertatiGiovanni Bertati1801-11-033 November 1801Rome, Teatro Valle
metamorfosiLe metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondofarsa giocoso per musica1 actFoppaGiuseppe Foppa1802-03-00Carnival 1802Venice, Teatro Giustiniani in San Moisè
petiteLa petite maisonopéra comique3 actsDieulafoyJoseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Nicolas Gersin1804-05-1212 May 1804Paris, Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau
Miltonfait historique1 actJouyVictor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy1804-11-2727 November 1804Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart
Julie, ou Le pot de fleurscomédie en prose, mêlée de chants1 actJarsAntoine Gabriel Jars1805-03-1212 March 1805Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart
vestaleLa vestaletragédie lyrique3 actsJouyVictor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Monumenti antichi inediti (1767)1807-12-1515 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)		opéra3 actsJouyVictor-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 Karl August von Lichtenstein		1809-11-28 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 paixopéra2 actsJouyVictor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy1814-08-2323 August 1814Paris, Opéra
dieuxLes dieux rivaux, ou Les fêtes de Cythère
(Together with Rudolphe Kreutzer, Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persius and Henri Montan Berton)		opéra-ballet1 actDieulafoyJoseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut1816-06-2121 June 1816Paris, Opéra
Olimpie;
second version, in German, as Olimpia;
third version, again in French, as Olimpie		tragédie lyrique3 actsDieulafoyJoseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut, after Voltaire;
second version translated and revised by E. T. A. Hoffmann		1819-12-2222 December 1819;
second version: 14 May 1821;
third version: 28 February 1826		Paris, Opéra (first and third versions);
Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (second version)
Nurmahal, oder das Rosenfest von Caschmirlyrisches Drama mit Ballet2 actsHerklotsCarl Alexander Herklots, after Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh 1822-05-2727 May 1822Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus
AlcidorZauberoper mit Ballet3 actsLambertMarie-Emmanuel-Guillaume Théaulon de Lambert and C. Nutty, after Rochon de Chabannes;
German translation by Carl Alexander Herklots		1825-05-2323 May 1825 (to celebrate the marriage of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands and Princess Louise of Prussia on 21 May 1825)Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus
Agnes von Hohenstaufenlyrisches Drama3 acts[N 1]RaupachErnst Raupach (first and second versions);
revised by Karl August von Lichtenstein and the composer (third version)		1827-05-2828 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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