This is a list of the operas written by the Italian composer Antonio Salieri (1750–1825).
List
editTitle | Genre | Acts | Libretto | Premiere | |
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Date | Venue | ||||
La Vestale | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Unknown | Unperformed, a culminating study for his teacher Gassmann | Vienna |
Le donne letterate | commedia per musica | 3 acts | Giovanni Gastone Boccherini, after Molière's Les femmes savantes | Carnival 1770 | Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater) |
L'amore innocente | pastorale | 2 acts | Giovanni Gastone Boccherini | 1770 | Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater) |
Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace | divertimento teatrale | 2 acts | Giovanni Gastone Boccherini, after Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote | Carnival 1771 | Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater) |
La moda, ossia scompigli domestici | pasticcio | 2 acts | Pietro Cipretti | 1771 | Vienna |
Armida | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Marco Coltellini, after Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata | 2 June 1771 | Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater) |
La fiera di Venezia | commedia per musica | 3 acts | Giovanni Gastone Boccherini | 29 January 1772 | Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater) |
Il barone di Rocca antica | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Giuseppe Petrosellini | 12 May 1772 | Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater) |
La secchia rapita | dramma eroicomico | 3 acts | Giovanni Gastone Boccherini, after Alessandro Tassoni's play of the same name | 21 October 1772 | Vienna, Kärtnertortheater |
La locandiera | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | Domenico Poggi, after Carlo Goldoni's play of the same name | 8 June 1773 | Vienna, Burgtheater[1] |
La calamita de' cuori | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra, after Carlo Goldoni | 11 October 1774 | Vienna, Kärtnertortheater |
La finta scema | commedia per musica | 2 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra | 9 September 1775 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Daliso e Delmita | azione pastorale | 3 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra | 29 July 1776 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Europa riconosciuta | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Mattia Verazi | 3 August 1778 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala (inauguration) |
La scuola de' gelosi | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Caterino Mazzolà | Carnival 1779 | Venice, San Moisè |
La partenza inaspettata | intermezzo | 2 parts | Giuseppe Petrosellini | Carnival 1779 | Rome, Teatro Valle |
Il talismano (Acts 2 and 3 by Giacomo Rust) |
dramma giocoso | 3 acts | Carlo Goldoni; revised by Lorenzo Da Ponte |
21 August 1779; Revised: 10 September 1788 |
Milan, Teatro Cannobiana; revised: Vienna, Burgtheater |
La dama pastorella | intermezzo | 2 parts | Giuseppe Petrosellini | 1780 | Rome, Teatro Valle |
Der Rauchfangkehrer, oder Die unentbehrlichen Verräther ihrer Herrschaften aus Eigennutz | musikalisches Lustspiel | 3 acts | Leopold von Auenbrugger | 30 April 1781 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Semiramide | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 14 January 1782[2] | Munich, Residenz Theatre |
Les Danaïdes | tragédie lyrique | 5 acts | Marius François Louis Gaud Du Roullet and Louis Théodore Baron de Tschudi, after Raniero de Calzabigi | 26 April 1784 | Paris, Opéra |
Il ricco d'un giorno | dramma giocoso | 3 acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte after Giovanni Bertati | 6 December 1784 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
La grotta di Trofonio | opera comica | 2 acts | Giovanni Battista Casti | 12 October 1785 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Prima la musica e poi le parole | divertimento teatrale | 1 act | Giovanni Battista Casti | 7 February 1786 | Vienna, Schloss Schönbrunn Orangerie |
Les Horaces | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Nicholas-François Guillard, after Pierre Corneille | 2 December 1786 | Versailles |
Tarare | opéra | prologue and 5 acts | Pierre Beaumarchais | 8 June 1787 | Paris, Opéra |
Axur, re d'Ormus | dramma tragicomico | 5 acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte, after Pierre Beaumarchais' Tarare | 8 January 1788 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari | dramma eroicomico | 2 acts | Giovanni Battista Casti | composed 1788; first performed 1998 |
Würzburg, Mainfrankentheater |
Il pastor fido | dramma tragicomico | 4 acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte, after Battista Guarini's play of the same name | 11 February 1789 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
La cifra | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte, after Giuseppe Petrosellini's La dama pastorella | 11 December 1789 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Catilina | dramma eroicomico | 2 acts | Giovanni Battista Casti | composed 1792; first performed 1994 |
Staatstheater Darmstadt |
Il mondo alla rovescia | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Caterino Mazzolà, after his libretto L'isola capricciosa | 13 January 1795 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Eraclito e Democrito | commedia per musica | 2 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra | 13 August 1795 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Palmira, regina di Persia | dramma eroicomico | 2 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra, after Voltaire's La princesse de Babylone | 14 October 1795 | Vienna, Kärtnertortheater |
Il moro | commedia per musica | 2 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra | 7 August 1796 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
I tre filosofi | 2 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra | composed 1797, but unperformed | ||
Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, after William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor | 3 January 1799 | Vienna, Kärtnertortheater |
Cesare in Farmacusa | dramma eroicomico | 2 acts | Carlo Prospero Defranceschi | 2 June 1800 | Vienna, Kärtnertortheater |
L'Angiolina ossia Il matrimonio per Susurro | opera buffa | 2 acts | Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, after Ben Jonson's Epicœne | 22 October 1800 | Vienna, Kärtnertortheater |
Annibale in Capua | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Antonio Simone Sografi | 19 May 1801[3] | Trieste, Teatro Nuovo |
La bella selvaggia | opera buffa | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati | composed 1802, but unperformed | |
Die Neger | Singspiel | 2 acts | Georg Friedrich Treitschke | 10 November 1804 | Vienna, Theater an der Wien |
References
editNotes
- ^ La locandiera, Corago, University of Bologna
- ^ Timo Jouko Herrmann, Antonio Salieri und seine deutschsprachigen Werke für das Musiktheater, Hofmeister, Leipzig, 2015, p. 132
- ^ Elena Biggi Parodi, Catalogo tematico delle composizioni teatrali di Antonio Salieri, Libreria Musicale Italiana, Lucca, 2005, p. 29
Sources
- Rice, John A. (1992), "Salieri, Antonio" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7