List of operas by Antonio Salieri

This is a list of the operas written by the Italian composer Antonio Salieri (1750–1825).

List
TitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremiere datePlace, theatre
La Vestaledramma per musica3 actsUnknownUnperformed, a culminating study for his teacher GassmannVienna
Le donne letteratecommedia per musica3 actsGiovanni Gastone Boccherini, after Molière's Les femmes savantesCarnival 1770Vienna, Burgtheater
(or Kärtnertortheater)
L'amore innocentepastorale2 actsGiovanni Gastone Boccherini1770Vienna, Burgtheater
(or Kärtnertortheater)
Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamacedivertimento teatrale2 actsGiovanni Gastone Boccherini, after Miguel de Cervantes' Don QuixoteCarnival 1771Vienna, Burgtheater
(or Kärtnertortheater)
La moda, ossia scompigli domesticipasticcio2 actsPietro Cipretti1771Vienna
Armidadramma per musica3 actsMarco Coltellini, after Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata2 June 1771Vienna, Burgtheater
(or Kärtnertortheater)
La fiera di Veneziacommedia per musica3 actsGiovanni Gastone Boccherini29 January 1772Vienna, Burgtheater
(or Kärtnertortheater)
Il barone di Rocca anticadramma giocoso2 actsGiuseppe Petrosellini12 May 1772Vienna, Burgtheater
(or Kärtnertortheater)
La secchia rapitadramma eroicomico3 actsGiovanni Gastone Boccherini, after Alessandro Tassoni's play of the same name21 October 1772Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
La locandieradramma giocoso3 actsDomenico Poggi, after Carlo Goldoni's play of the same name8 June 1773Vienna, Burgtheater[1]
La calamità de' cuoridramma giocoso3 actsGiovanni de Gamerra, after Carlo Goldoni11 October 1774Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
La finta scemacommedia per musica2 actsGiovanni de Gamerra9 September 1775Vienna, Burgtheater
Daliso e Delmitaazione pastorale3 actsGiovanni de Gamerra29 July 1776Vienna, Burgtheater
Europa riconosciutadramma per musica2 actsMattia Verazi3 August 1778Milan, Teatro alla Scala
(inauguration)
La scuola de' gelosidramma giocoso2 actsCaterino MazzolàCarnival 1779Venice, San Moisè
La partenza inaspettateintermezzo2 partsGiuseppe PetroselliniCarnival 1779Rome, Teatro Valle
Il talismano
(Acts 2 and 3 by Giacomo Rust)		dramma giocoso3 actsCarlo Goldoni;
revised by Lorenzo Da Ponte		21 August 1779;
Revised: 10 September 1788		Milan, Teatro Cannobiana;
revised: Vienna, Burgtheater
La dama pastorellaintermezzo2 partsGiuseppe Petrosellini1780Rome, Teatro Valle
Der Rauchfangkehrer, oder Die unentbehrlichen Verräther ihrer Herrschaften aus Eigennutzmusikalisches Lustspiel3 actsLeopold von Auenbrugger30 April 1781Vienna, Burgtheater
Semiramidedramma per musica3 actsMetastasio14 January 1782[2]Munich, Residenz Theatre
Les Danaïdestragédie lyrique5 actsMarius François Louis Gaud Du Roullet and Louis Théodore Baron de Tschudi, after Raniero de Calzabigi26 April 1784Paris, Opéra
Il ricco d'un giornodramma giocoso3 actsLorenzo Da Ponte after Giovanni Bertati6 December 1784Vienna, Burgtheater
La grotta di Trofonioopera comica2 actsGiovanni Battista Casti12 October 1785Vienna, Burgtheater
Prima la musica e poi le paroledivertimento teatrale1 actGiovanni Battista Casti7 February 1786Vienna, Schloss Schönbrunn Orangerie
Les Horacestragédie lyrique3 actsNicholas-François Guillard, after Pierre Corneille2 December 1786Versailles
Tarareopéraprologue and 5 actsPierre Beaumarchais8 June 1787Paris, Opéra
Axur, re d'Ormusdramma tragicomico5 actsLorenzo Da Ponte, after Pierre Beaumarchais' Tarare8 January 1788Vienna, Burgtheater
Cublai gran kan de' Tartaridramma eroicomico2 actsGiovanni Battista Casticomposed 1788;
first performed 1998		Würzburg, Mainfrankentheater
Il pastor fidodramma tragicomico4 actsLorenzo Da Ponte, after Battista Guarini's play of the same name11 February 1789Vienna, Burgtheater
La cifradramma giocoso2 actsLorenzo Da Ponte, after Giuseppe Petrosellini's La dama pastorella11 December 1789Vienna, Burgtheater
Catilinadramma eroicomico2 actsGiovanni Battista Casticomposed 1792;
first performed 1994		Staatstheater Darmstadt
Il mondo alla rovesciadramma giocoso2 actsCaterino Mazzolà, after his libretto L'isola capricciosa13 January 1795Vienna, Burgtheater
Eraclito e Democritocommedia per musica2 actsGiovanni de Gamerra13 August 1795Vienna, Burgtheater
Palmira, regina di Persiadramma eroicomico2 actsGiovanni de Gamerra, after Voltaire's La princesse de Babylone14 October 1795Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
Il morocommedia per musica2 actsGiovanni de Gamerra7 August 1796Vienna, Burgtheater
I tre filosofi2 actsGiovanni de Gamerracomposed 1797, but unperformed
Falstaff, ossia Le tre burledramma giocoso2 actsCarlo Prospero Defranceschi, after William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor3 January 1799Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
Cesare in Farmacusadramma eroicomico2 actsCarlo Prospero Defranceschi2 June 1800Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
L'Angiolina ossia Il matrimonio per Susurroopera buffa2 actsCarlo Prospero Defranceschi, after Ben Jonson's Epicœne22 October 1800Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
Annibale in Capuadramma per musica3 actsAntonio Simone Sografi19 May 1801[3]Trieste, Teatro Nuovo
La bella selvaggiaopera buffa2 actsGiovanni Bertaticomposed 1802, but unperformed
Die NegerSingspiel2 actsGeorg Friedrich Treitschke10 November 1804Vienna, Theater an der Wien

References

Notes

  1. La locandiera, Corago, University of Bologna
  2. Timo Jouko Herrmann, Antonio Salieri und seine deutschsprachigen Werke für das Musiktheater, Hofmeister, Leipzig, 2015, p. 132
  3. 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
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