List of operas by Gaspare Spontini

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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
Li puntigli delle donne farsetta per musica 2 acts unknown Carnival 1796 Florence, Regio Teatro degli Intrepidi
Adelina Senese o sia l'Amore secreto dramma giocoso 2 acts Giovanni Bertati, after his libretto La principessa d'Amalfi for Joseph Weigl 10 October 1797 Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Il finto pittore farsetta/melodramma buffo? unknown unknown 1797/1798; 1800 Rome (?);
Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
L'eroismo ridicolo farsa per musica 1 act Domenico 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 Domenico Piccinni 1 July 1799 Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo
La fuga in maschera commedia per musica 2 acts Giuseppe Palomba Carnival 1800 Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo
I quadri parlanti[a] melodramma buffo unknown unknown 1800 Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
Gli Elisi delusi melodramma buffo 2 acts Michelangelo Monti 28 August 1800 Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
Gli amanti in cimento, o sia Il geloso audace[a] dramma giocoso 2 acts Giovanni Bertati 3 November 1801 Rome, Teatro Valle
Le metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo[a] farsa giocosa per musica 1 act Giuseppe Foppa Carnival 1802 Venice, Teatro Giustiniani in San Moisè
La petite maison opéra comique 3 acts Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Nicolas 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's Monumenti antichi inediti (1767) 15 December 1807 Paris, Opéra
Fernand Cortez, ou La conquête du Mexique;
third and fourth versions, in German, as Fernand Cortez oder Die Eroberung von Mexiko		 tragédie lyrique 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 Karl August 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, Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis 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 (first and third versions);
Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (second version)
Nurmahal, oder das Rosenfest von Caschmir lyrisches Drama mit Ballet 2 acts Carl Alexander Herklots, after Thomas Moore's 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 by Carl Alexander Herklots		 23 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[b] Ernst Raupach (first and second versions);
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)
Notes
  1. ^ a b c Manuscript score rediscovered in 2016[1]
  2. ^ originally planned for 2 acts

References[]

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

Sources[]

  • 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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