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
puntigliLi puntigli delle donne	farsetta per musica	2 acts	unknownunknown	1796-03-00Carnival 1796	Rome, Pallacorda di firenze
Adelina Senese o sia l'Amore secreto	dramma giocoso	2 acts	BertatiGiovanni Bertati, after his libretto La principessa d'Amalfi for Joseph Weigl	1797-10-1010 October 1797	Venice, Teatro San Samuele
fintoIl finto pittore	unknown	unknown	unknownunknown	1797-00-001797/1798; 1800	Rome (?); Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
eroismoL'eroismo ridicolo	farsa per musica	1 act	PiccinniDomenico Piccinni	1798-03-00Carnival 1798	Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo
TeseoIl Teseo riconosciuto	dramma per musica	2 acts	GiottiCosimo Giotti	1798-05-2222 May 1798	Florence, Regio Teatro degli Intrepidi
fintaLa finta filosofa	commedia per musica	2 acts	PiccinniDomenico Piccinni	1799-07-011 July 1799	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
fugaLa fuga in maschera	unknown	2 acts	PalombaGiuseppe Palomba	1800-03-00Carnival 1800	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
quadriI quadri parlanti	melodramma buffo	unknown	unknownunknown	1800-05-001800	Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
ElisiGli Elisi delusi	melodramma buffo	2 acts	MontiMichelangelo Monti	1800-08-2828 August 1800	Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
amantiGli amanti in cimento, o sia Il geloso audace	dramma per musica	2 acts	BertatiGiovanni Bertati	1801-11-033 November 1801	Rome, Teatro Valle
metamorfosiLe metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo	farsa giocoso per musica	1 act	FoppaGiuseppe Foppa	1802-03-00Carnival 1802	Venice, Teatro Giustiniani in San Moisè
petiteLa petite maison	opéra comique	3 acts	DieulafoyJoseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Nicolas Gersin	1804-05-1212 May 1804	Paris, Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau
Milton	fait historique	1 act	JouyVictor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy	1804-11-2727 November 1804	Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart
Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs	comédie en prose, mêlée de chants	1 act	JarsAntoine Gabriel Jars	1805-03-1212 March 1805	Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart
vestaleLa vestale	tragédie lyrique	3 acts	JouyVictor-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 du Mexique (third version: Fernand Cortez oder Die Eroberung von Mexiko)	opéra	3 acts	JouyVictor-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 paix	opéra	2 acts	JouyVictor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy	1814-08-2323 August 1814	Paris, Opéra
dieuxLes dieux rivaux, ou Les fêtes de Cythère (Together with Rudolphe Kreutzer, Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persius and Henri Montan Berton)	opéra-ballet	1 act	DieulafoyJoseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut	1816-06-2121 June 1816	Paris, Opéra
Olimpie; second version, in German, as Olimpia; third version, again in French, as Olimpie	tragédie lyrique	3 acts	DieulafoyJoseph 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 Caschmir	lyrisches Drama mit Ballet	2 acts	HerklotsCarl Alexander Herklots, after Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh	1822-05-2727 May 1822	Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus
Alcidor	Zauberoper mit Ballet	3 acts	LambertMarie-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 Hohenstaufen	lyrisches Drama	3 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)

↑ originally planned for 2 acts

References

Gerhard, Anselm (1992), "Spontini, Gaspare" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
Some of the information in this article is taken from the related Dutch Wikipedia article.

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