List of operas by Cherubini

This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian-born composer Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842) who spent much of his working life in France.

In terms of genre, Cherubini's output included 11 opere serie and 10 opéras comiques, as well as three intermezzi, three tragédies lyriques, two opere buffe, and one each of the following: comédie héroïque, comédie lyrique, comédie mêlée d'ariettes, drame lyrique, dramma lirico, opéra bouffon, and opéra-ballet.

List

TitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatre
Amore artigianointermezzounknownunknownlibrettist unknown1773-10-2222 October 1773Fiesole, Teatro San Domenico
giocatoreIl giocatoreintermezzounknownunknownlibrettist unknown and score lost1775-00-00 composed 1775?Florence
(untitled) intermezzo unknownunknownlibrettist unknown1778-02-1616 February 1778Florence, Serviti
Quinto1Il Quinto Fabioopera seria3 actsZenoApostolo Zeno 1780-09-30Autumn 1779Alessandria, Teatro Paglia
Armida abbandonataopera seria3 actsVitturiBartolomeo Vitturi, based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata 1782-01-2525 January 1782Florence, La Pergola
Adriano in Siriaopera seria3 actsMetastasio 1782-04-1616 April 1782Livorno, Teatro Armeni
Mesenzio, re d'Etruriaopera seria3 actsCasoriFerdinando Casor(r)i 1782-09-066 September 1782Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Quinto2Il Quinto Fabio
(second version)
opera seria3 actsZenoApostolo Zeno 1783-01-00January 1783Rome, Teatro Argentina
sposoLo sposo di tre e marito di nessuno opera buffa2 actsLivigniFilippo Livigni 1783-11-00November 1783Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Olimpiadeopera seria33 acts?Metastasio 1783-12-991783Venice?
AllessandroL'Allessandro nelle Indieopera seria2 actsMetastasio 1784-04-00April 1784Mantua, Teatro Nuovo Regio Ducale
IdalideL'Idalideopera seria2 actsMorettiFerdinando Moretti 1784-12-2626 December 1784Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Demetrioopera seria04 pieces onlyMetastasio 1785-00-001785London, King's Theatre
fintaLa finta principessa opera buffa2 actsLivigniFilippo Livigni 1785-04-022 April 1785London, King's Theatre
Il Giulio Sabinoopera seria2 actsunknownlibrettist unknown 1786-03-3030 March 1786London, King's Theatre
Ifigenia in Aulideopera seria3 actsMorettiFerdinando Moretti, after François Louis Gaud Lebland Du Roullet 1788-01-1212 January 1788Turin, Teatro Regio
Démophoontragédie lyrique3 actsMarmonteJean-François Marmontel, after Metastasio 1788-12-022 December 1788Paris, Opéra
(Porte Saint-Martin)
Lodoïskacomédie héroïque3 actsFilletteClaude-François Fillette-Loraux after Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrais Les Amours du Chevalier Faublas 1791-07-1818 July 1791Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
Koukourgi
(composed 1792-93[1])
opéra comique3 actsHonoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier2010-09-1818 September 2010Klagenfurt, Stadttheater Klagenfurt
congresLe congrès des rois
(together with Henri Montan Berton, Frédéric Blasius, Nicolas Dalayrac, Prosper-Didier Deshayes, François Devienne, André Grétry, Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Étienne Méhul, Jean-Pierre Solié and Armand-Emmanuel Trial)
comédie mêlée d'ariettes3 actsDesmaillot (Antoine-François Eve) 1794-02-2626 February 1794Paris, Opéra-Comique
(Favart)
Eliza, ou Le voyage aux glaciers du Mont Saint Bernardopéra comique2 actsReveronyJacques-Antoine Révérony de Saint-Cyr 1794-12-1313 December 1794Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
Médéeopéra comique3 actsHoffmannFrançois-Benoît Hoffmann and Nicolas Étienne Framéry, after Euripides and Pierre Corneille 1797-03-13first version: 13 March 1797[2]Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
HotellerieL'hôtellerie portugaiseopéra comique1 actSaint-AignanEtienne Saint-Aignan 1798-07-2525 July 1798Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
punitionLa punitionopéra comique1 actDesfaucheresJean-Louis Brousse Desfaucheres 1799-02-2323 February 1799Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
prisionniereLa prisionnièreopéra comique1 actJouyEtienne de Jouy, Charles de Longchamps and Claude Godard d'Aucort de Saint-Just 1799-09-1212 September 1799Paris, Théâtre Montansier
deuxLes deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eaucomédie lyrique3 actsBouillyJean-Nicolas Bouilly 1800-01-1616 January 1800Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
Épicure (with Méhul)opéra comique3 acts, revised as 2 actsDesmoustierCharles-Albert Desmoustier 1800-03-1414 March 1800Paris, Opéra-Comique
(Favart)
Anacréon ou L'amour fugitifopéra-ballet2 actsMendouzeC. R. Mendouze 1803-10-044 October 1803Paris, Opéra
(Théâtre des Arts)
Faniskaopéra comique3 actsSonnleitnerJoseph von Sonnleitner after René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt 1806-02-2525 February 1806Vienna, Theater am Kärntnertor
Pimmalionedramma lirico1 actVestrisStefano Vestris, after Antonio Simone Sografi's Italian version of Pygmalion by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1809-11-3030 November 1809Paris, Tuileries
crescendoLe crescendoopéra bouffon1 actBassompierreCharles-Augustine de Bassompierre de Sewrin 1810-09-011 September 1810Paris, Opéra-Comique
(Feydeau)
AbenceragesLes Abencérages, ou L'étendard de Grenadetragédie lyrique3 actsJouyVictor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after François-René de Chateaubriand, based on Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's novel Gonsalve de Cordoue 1813-04-066 April 1813Paris, Opéra
(Théâtre des Arts)
Bayard à Mézièresopéra comique1 actDupatyEmmanuel Dupaty and René de Chazet 1814-02-1212 February 1814Paris, Opéra-Comique
(Feydeau)
Blanche de Provence, ou La cour de fées'
(composed with Henri Montan Berton, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Ferdinando Paer)
opéra comique3 actsTheaulonEmmanuel Théaulon and Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé 1821-05-011 May 1821Paris, Tuileries
marquiseLa marquise de Brinvilliers
(composed in collaboration with Daniel Auber, Désiré-Alexandre Batton, Henri Montan Berton, Felice Blangini, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Michele Carafa, Ferdinand Hérold and Ferdinando Paer)
drame lyrique3 actsScribeEugène Scribe and Castil-Blaze (François-Henri-Joseph Blaze) 1831-10-3131 October 1831Paris, Opéra-Comique
(Ventadour)
Ali Baba, ou Les quarante voleurstragédie lyrique41Prologue and 4 actsScribeEugène Scribe and Mélesville 1833-07-2222 July 1833Paris, Opéra
(Salle Le Peletier)

References

Notes

  1. Koukourgi (1792–93)" at Boosey & Hawkes
  2. Italian translation, as Medea: 6 November 1802, Vienna; in 1809, Cherubini cut about 500 bars for a shortened version, also for Vienna.

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