List of operas by Tommaso Traetta
This is a list of the operas written by the Italian composer Tommaso Traetta (1727–1779).
Traetta wrote 25 opere serie, 5 opere buffe, 4 drammi giocosi, 2 azioni teatrali and 1 each of the following: azione drammatica, burletta, dramma eroicomico, pastorale, semiseria e bernesca, serenata, and tragedia.
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Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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Il Farnace | opera seria | 3 acts | Antonio Maria Lucchini | 4 November 1751 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo |
La Costanza | opera buffa | Antonio Palomba | Winter 1752 | Naples, Fiorentini | |
I pastori felici | opera buffa | 2 acts | 1753 | Naples | |
Le nozze contrastate | opera buffa | 3 acts | 1753, Carnival 1755 | Naples; Rome, Dame | |
Ezio | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | 1754?, 1757 | Rome, Dame |
L'incredulo | opera buffa | 2 acts | Pasquale Mililotti | Autumn 1755 | Naples, Fiorentini |
La fante furba | opera buffa | 2 acts | Antonio Palomba | Autumn 1756 | Naples, Nuovo |
Nitteti | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | 29 April 1757 | Reggio Emilia, Pubblico |
Didone abbandonata | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | Autumn 1757 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
Olimpiade | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | Autumn 1758 | Verona, Accademia Filarmonica |
Demofoonte | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival 1758 | Mantua, Vecchio |
Solimano | opera seria | 3 acts | Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca | Carnival 1758 | Parma, Ducale |
Buovo d'Antona | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | Carlo Goldoni | 1750?,[1] 27 December 1758 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
Ippolito ed Aricia | tragedia | 5 acts | Carlo Frugoni after Simon-Joseph Pellegrin | 9 May 1759 | Parma, Ducale |
Enea nel Lazio | opera seria | 3 acts | Vittorio Amadeo Cigna-Santi | Carnival 1760 | Turin, Regio |
I Tindaridi | opera seria | 5 acts | Carlo Frugoni after Pierre-Joseph Bernard Gentil-Bernard | April 1760 | Parma, Ducale |
Stordilano, principe di Granata | semiseria e bernesca | 3 acts | Giovanni Bertati | Spring 1760 | Parma, Ducale |
Le feste d'Imeneo | serenata | prologue and 3 acts | Carlo Frugoni | 3 September 1760 | Parma, Ducale |
Armida | azione teatrale | 1 act | Giacomo Durazzo after Torquato Tasso | 3 January 1761, 1763 | Vienna, Burgtheater; Naples |
Enea e Lavinia | opera seria | 3 acts | Giacobbe Antonio Sanvitale after Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle | Spring 1761 | Parma, Ducale |
Zenobia | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | Autumn 1761 | Lucca |
Alessandro nell'Indie | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | Spring 1762 | Reggio Emilia, Pubblico |
Sofonisba | opera seria | 3 acts | Mattia Verazi after Antonio Maria Zanetti and Girolamo Zanetti | 4 November 1762 | Mannheim, Hof |
La francese a Malghera | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | Pietro Chiari | 1762?, 1764 | Parma?, Venice, San Cassiano |
Ifigenia in Tauride | opera seria | 3 acts | Marco Coltellini | 4 October 1763 | Vienna, Schönbrunn |
Antigono | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | 16 June 1764 | Padua, Nuovo |
Semiramide | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival 1765 | Venice, San Cassiano |
Le serve rivali | burletta | 3 acts | Pietro Chiari | Autumn 1766 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
Siroe, re di Persia | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival 1767 | Munich, Hof |
Amore in trappola | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | Pietro Chiari | Carnival 1768 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
L'isola disabitata | azione drammatica | 1 act | Metastasio | 26 December 1768 | Bologna, Nuovo Pubblico |
Fetonte | opera seria | 3 acts | 1768 | Vienna, Hof | |
Il tributo campestre | pastorale | 1 act | Giovanni Battista Buganza | 1768 | Mantua, Ducale |
Astrea placata | azione teatrale | Metastasio | 1770 | St. Petersburg, court | |
Antigona | opera seria | 3 acts | Marco Coltellini | 31 October/11 November 1772 | St. Petersburg, court |
Amore e Psiche | opera seria | 3 acts | Marco Coltellini | 29 September 1773 | St. Petersburg, court |
Lucio Vero | opera seria | 3 acts | Marco Coltellini, after Apostolo Zeno | 17/28 November 1774 | St. Petersburg, court |
Germondo | opera seria | 3 acts | Carlo Goldoni | 21 January 1776 | London, King's Theatre |
La Merope | opera seria | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno | 25 January 1776 | Milan, Ducale |
Telemaco | opera seria | 3 acts | Zaccaria de Seriman after Antoine Danchet | 15 March 1777 | London, King's Theatre |
Il cavaliere errante (revision of Stordilano, principe di Granata) |
dramma eroicomico | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati | 1777?, Spring 1778 | Naples, Venice |
La disfatta di Dario | opera seria | 3 acts | Antonio Morbilli | February 1778 | Venice, San Benedetto |
Gli eroi dei Campi Elisi (completed by Gennaro Astarita) |
dramma giocoso | 3 acts | Carnival 1779 | Venice, San Samuele | |
Il cavaliere errante nell'isola disabitata (revision of Il cavaliere errante) |
Giovanni Bertati | 1779 | Vienna, Kärntnertor |
References[]
- ^ only Zatta, possibly printing mistake
- Heartz, Daniel and McClymonds, Marita P (1992), 'Traetta, Tommaso' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
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