List of operas by Gaspare Spontini

French opera singer Caroline Branchu as Julia in La vestale (1807)

Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851) wrote operas from the last decade of the 18th century to the third decade of the 19th century.

Before leaving Italy, where he was born, he wrote:

For Paris, he wrote:

First presented in Berlin:

Operas by Gaspare Spontini
Title Genre Sub­divisions Libretto Première date Place, 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 parlanti[lower-alpha 1]melodramma 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 audace[lower-alpha 1]dramma per musica2 actsBertatiGiovanni Bertati1801-11-033 November 1801Rome, Teatro Valle
metamorfosiLe metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo[lower-alpha 1]farsa 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 du 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[lower-alpha 2]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)

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Manuscript score rediscovered in 2016[1]
  2. ↑ originally planned for 2 acts

References

  1. ↑ (Dutch) "Unieke partituren van Spontini ontdekt in het kasteel van Hingene". VRT, 27 June 2016

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