List of operas by Gaspare Spontini
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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:
- Li puntigli delle donne
- Adelina Senese o sia l'Amore secreto
- Il finto pittore
- L'eroismo ridicolo [scores]
- Il Teseo riconosciuto
- La finta filosofa
- La fuga in maschera
- I quadri parlanti
- Gli Elisi delusi
- Gli amanti in cimento, o sia Il geloso audace
- Le metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo
For Paris, he wrote:
- La petite maison
- Milton
- Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs
- La vestale
- Fernand Cortez, ou La conquête du Mexique
- Pélage, ou Le roi et la paix
- Les dieux rivaux, ou Les fêtes de Cythère
- Olimpie
First presented in Berlin:
- Nurmahal, oder das Rosenfest von Caschmir
- Alcidor
- Agnes von Hohenstaufen
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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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) |
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References
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- 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.
External links
- ESDF-Opera: details of Spontini premieres
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List of operas
- Li puntigli delle donne (1796)
- Teseo riconosciuto (1798)
- La fuga in maschera (1800)
- Le metamorfosi di Pasquale (1802)
- Milton (1804)
- Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs (1805)
- La vestale (1807)
- Fernand Cortez (1809)
- Olimpie (1819)
- Nurmahal, oder Das Rosenfest von Kaschmir (1822)
- Agnes von Hohenstaufen (1829)
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