List of operas by Gaspare Spontini

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

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

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 donnefarsetta per musica2 actsunknownCarnival 1796Florence, Regio Teatro degli Intrepidi
Adelina Senese o sia l'Amore secretodramma giocoso2 actsGiovanni Bertati, after his libretto La principessa d'Amalfi for Joseph Weigl10 October 1797Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Il finto pittorefarsetta/melodramma buffo?unknownunknown1797/1798; 1800Rome (?);
Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
L'eroismo ridicolofarsa per musica1 actDomenico PiccinniCarnival 1798Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo
Il Teseo riconosciutodramma per musica2 actsCosimo Giotti22 May 1798Florence, Regio Teatro degli Intrepidi
La finta filosofacommedia per musica2 actsDomenico Piccinni1 July 1799Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo
La fuga in mascheracommedia per musica2 actsGiuseppe PalombaCarnival 1800Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo
I quadri parlanti[lower-alpha 1]melodramma buffounknownunknown1800Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
Gli Elisi delusimelodramma buffo2 actsMichelangelo Monti28 August 1800Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia
Gli amanti in cimento, o sia Il geloso audace[lower-alpha 1]dramma giocoso2 actsGiovanni Bertati3 November 1801Rome, Teatro Valle
Le metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo[lower-alpha 1]farsa giocosa per musica1 actGiuseppe FoppaCarnival 1802Venice, Teatro Giustiniani in San Moisè
La petite maisonopéra comique3 actsJoseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Nicolas Gersin12 May 1804Paris, Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau
Miltonfait historique1 actVictor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy27 November 1804Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart
Julie, ou Le pot de fleurscomédie en prose, mêlée de chants1 actAntoine Gabriel Jars12 March 1805Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart
La vestaletragédie lyrique3 actsVictor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Monumenti antichi inediti (1767)15 December 1807Paris, Opéra
Fernand Cortez, ou La conquête du Mexique;
third and fourth versions, in German, as Fernand Cortez oder Die Eroberung von Mexiko		tragédie lyrique3 actsVictor-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 paixopéra2 actsVictor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy23 August 1814Paris, Opéra
Les dieux rivaux, ou Les fêtes de Cythère
(Together with Rudolphe Kreutzer, Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis and Henri Montan Berton)		opéra-ballet1 actJoseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut21 June 1816Paris, Opéra
Olimpie;
second version, in German, as Olimpia;
third version, again in French, as Olimpie		tragédie lyrique3 actsJoseph 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 Caschmirlyrisches Drama mit Ballet2 actsCarl Alexander Herklots, after Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh27 May 1822Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus
AlcidorZauberoper mit Ballet3 actsMarie-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 Hohenstaufenlyrisches Drama3 acts[lower-alpha 2]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. 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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