List of operas by Gaetano Donizetti

The Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote about 75 from 1816 to 1845.

List of operas

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Operas by Gaetano Donizetti[1]
Title Genre Acts Libretto Premiere[2]
Date Venue
Il Pigmalione scena drammatica 1 act   13 October 1960, completed 1816 Bergamo, Teatro Donizetti
Olimpiade     Metastasio's L'Olimpiade incomplete, composed 1817[3]  
L'ira di Achille [de]   1 act   incomplete, composed 1817[4]  
Enrico di Borgogna melodramma 2 acts Bartolomeo Merelli 14 November 1818 Venice, Teatro San Luca
Una follia farsa 1 act Bartolomeo Merelli 17 December 1818, lost Venice, Teatro San Luca
I piccioli virtuosi ambulanti[a] opera buffa 1 act   1819[5]  
Il falegname di Livonia, o Pietro il grande, czar delle Russie opera buffa 2 acts Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini 26 December 1819 Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Le nozze in villa opera buffa 2 acts Bartolomeo Merelli carnival 1820–1821, completed 1819 Mantua, Teatro Vecchio
Zoraida di Granata melodramma eroico 2 acts Bartolomeo Merelli; revised for Rome 1824 by Jacopo Ferretti[6] 28 January 1822 Rome, Teatro Argentina, rev. 7 January 1824 at the same theatre
La zingara dramma 2 acts Andrea Leone Tottola 12 May 1822 Naples, Teatro Nuovo
La lettera anonima farsa 1 act Giulio Genoino [it] 29 June 1822 Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Chiara e Serafina, o Il pirata melodramma semiserio 2 acts Felice Romani, after Pixérécourt's La cisterne 26 October 1822 Milan, La Scala
Alfredo il grande dramma per musica 2 acts Andrea Leone Tottola 2 July 1823 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Il fortunato inganno dramma giocoso 2 acts Andrea Leone Tottola 3 September 1823 Naples, Teatro Nuovo
L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
[see also Don Gregorio]		 melodramma giocoso 2 acts Jacopo Ferretti, after Giovanni Giraud's comedy 4 February 1824 Rome, Teatro Valle
Emilia di Liverpool
[see also L'eremitaggio di Liverpool]		 dramma semiserio 2 acts anonymous, after S. Scatizzi's Emilia de Laverpaut 28 July 1824 Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Alahor in Granata dramma 2 acts M. A. 7 January 1826 Palermo, Teatro Carolino [it]
Don Gregorio
[rev of L'ajo nell'imbarazzo]		 melodramma giocoso 2 acts Jacopo Ferretti 11 June 1826 Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Elvida dramma 1 act Giovanni F. Schmidt[7] 6 July 1826 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Gabriella di Vergy tragedia lirica 3 acts Andrea Leone Tottola, after Dormont de Belloy 29 November 1869, completed 1826 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Olivo e Pasquale melodramma giocoso 2 acts Jacopo Ferretti, after Simeone Antonio Sografi 7 January 1827 Rome, Teatro Valle
Otto mesi in due ore, ossia Gli esiliati in Siberia opera romantica 3 acts Domenico Gilardoni, after Pixérécourt's La fille de l'exilé 13 May 1827 Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Il borgomastro di Saardam melodramma giocoso 2 acts Domenico Gilardoni, after Mélesville, Jean-Toussaint Merle and Eugène Cantiran de Boirie 19 August 1827 Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Le convenienze teatrali
[see also Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali]		 farsa 1 act Gaetano Donizetti, after Simeone Antonio Sografi 21 November 1827 Naples, Teatro Nuovo
L'esule di Roma, ossia Il proscritto melodramma eroico 2 acts Domenico Gilardoni, after Luigi Marchionni's Il proscritto romano 1 January 1828 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
L'eremitaggio di Liverpool
[rev of Emilia di Liverpool][8]		 melodramma semiserio[9] 2 acts Giuseppe Checcherini, after Scatizzi 8 March 1828 Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Alina, regina di Golconda melodramma 2 acts Felice Romani, after Sedaine's libretto for Monsigny's opera-ballet Aline, reine de Golconde[10] 12 May 1828 Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice
Gianni di Calais melodramma semiserio 3 acts Domenico Gilardoni, after a novel by Arlincourt[11] 2 August 1828 Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Il paria melodramma 2 acts Domenico Gilardoni, after Delavigne 12 January 1829 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Il giovedì grasso, o Il nuovo Pourceaugnac farsa[12] 1 act Domenico Gilardoni 26 February 1829 Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth melodramma 3 acts Andrea Leone Tottola, after Scribe's Leicester and Hugo's Amy Robsart 6 July 1829 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Alina, regina di Golconda [rev] melodramma 2 acts Felice Romani, after Sedaine 10 October 1829 Rome, Teatro Valle[10]
I pazzi per progetto farsa[13] 1 act Domenico Gilardoni 6 February 1830 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Il diluvio universale azione tragica-sacra 3 acts Domenico Gilardoni, after Byron's Heaven and Earth and Francesco Ringhieri's tragedy Il diluvio 6 March 1830[14] Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Imelda de' Lambertazzi melodramma tragico 2 acts Andrea Leone Tottola 5 September 1830 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Anna Bolena tragedia lirica 2 acts Felice Romani, after Pindemonte's tragedy Enrico VIII, ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena[15] 26 December 1830 Milan, Teatro Carcano
Gianni di Parigi melodramma comico[16] 2 acts Felice Romani, after Saint-Just's libretto for Boieldieu's opéra-comique Jean de Paris 10 September 1839, composed c. 1828–1831[17] Milan, La Scala
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali
[rev of Le convenienze teatrali]		 dramma giocoso 2 acts Donizetti, after Sografi 20 April 1831 Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana
Francesca di Foix melodramma 1 act Domenico Gilardoni, after a libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emmanuel Mercier-Dupaty for Henri-Montan Berton's 3-act opéra-comique Françoise de Foix.[18] 30 May 1831 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
La romanziera e l'uomo nero
(or La romanzesca e l'uomo nero)		 farsa 1 act Domenico Gilardoni 18 June 1831 Naples, Teatro del Fondo (arias and ensembles survive but spoken dialogue is lost)
Fausta melodramma 2 acts Domenico Gilardoni and Donizetti 12 January 1832 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Ugo, conte di Parigi tragedia lirica 2 acts Felice Romani, after Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis: Blanche d'Aquitaine 13 March 1832 Milan, La Scala
L'elisir d'amore melodramma giocoso 2 acts Felice Romani, after Scribe's libretto for Auber's Le philtre 12 May 1832 Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana
Sancia di Castiglia tragedia lirica 2 acts Pietro Salatino 4 November 1832 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo melodramma 2 acts Jacopo Ferretti, after an anonymous play on Cervantes' Don Quixote 2 January 1833 Rome, Teatro Valle
Otto mesi in due ore [rev] opera romantica 3 acts Antonio Alcozer after Domenico Gilardoni 1833 Livorno
Parisina melodramma 3 acts Felice Romani, after Byron 17 March 1833 Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Torquato Tasso melodramma 3 acts Jacopo Ferretti 9 September 1833 Rome, Teatro Valle
Lucrezia Borgia melodramma prologue & 2 acts Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo 26 December 1833 Milan, La Scala
Il diluvio universale [rev] azione tragico-sacra 3 acts anonymous, after Domenico Gilardoni 17 January 1834 Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice
Rosmonda d'Inghilterra melodramma serio 2 acts Felice Romani 27 February 1834 Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Maria Stuarda tragedia lirica 2 acts (or 3) Giuseppe Bardari, after Andrea Maffei's translation of Schiller[19] 30 December 1835 (in 3 acts), completed August 1834 Milan, La Scala
Buondelmonte
[rev of Maria Stuarda]		 tragedia lirica 2 acts Pietro Salatino 18 October 1834 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Gemma di Vergy tragedia lirica 2 acts Giovanni Emanuele Bidera, after the play Charles VII by Dumas[20] 26 December 1834 Milan, La Scala
Marino Faliero tragedia lirica 3 acts Giovanni Emanuele Bidera with revisions by Agostino Ruffini, after Casimir Delavigne's adaptation of Byron's play Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice[20] 12 March 1835 Paris, Théâtre-Italien
Lucia di Lammermoor
[see also Lucie de Lammermoor]		 dramma tragico 3 acts Salvadore Cammarano, after Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor 26 September 1835 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Belisario tragedia lirica 3 acts Salvadore Cammarano, after Eduard von Schenk as translated by Luigi Marchionni 4 February 1836 Venice, La Fenice
Il campanello di notte melodramma giocoso 1 act Donizetti, after the vaudeville La sonnette de nuit by Léon Lévy Brunswick (Léon Lhérie), Mathieu-Barthélemy Troin [Wikidata], and Victor Lhérie 1 June 1836 Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Betly, o La capanna svizzera dramma giocoso 1 act Donizetti, after Scribe's and Mélesville's libretto for Adam's Le chalet 21 August 1836 Naples, Teatro Nuovo
L'assedio di Calais dramma lirico 3 acts Salvadore Cammarano, after Dormont de Belloy 19 November 1836 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Pia de' Tolomei tragedia lirica 2 acts Salvadore Cammarano, after Bartolomeo Sestini, and Dante's La commedia 18 February 1837 Venice, Teatro Apollo
Pia de' Tolomei [rev] tragedia lirica 2 acts Salvadore Cammarano, after Bartolomeo Sestini, and Dante's La commedia 31 July 1837 Sinigaglia
Betly [rev] dramma giocoso 2 acts Donizetti 29 September 1837 Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Roberto Devereux tragedia lirica 3 acts Salvadore Cammarano, after Jacques-François Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre 28 October 1837 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Maria de Rudenz dramma tragico 3 acts Salvadore Cammarano, after the play La nonne sanglante by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, Cuvelier and Maillan 30 January 1838 Venice, La Fenice
Gabriella di Vergy [rev] tragedia lirica 3 acts Andrea Leone Tottola, after Dormont de Belloy August 1978 recording, composed 1838 London
Poliuto
[see also Les martyrs]		 tragedia lirica 3 acts Salvadore Cammarano, after Pierre Corneille 30 November 1848, completed July 1838 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Pia de' Tolomei [rev 2] tragedia lirica 2 acts anonymous revision of Cammarano's libretto May 1838[21] Rome, Teatro Argentina[21]
Lucie de Lammermoor
[rev of Lucia di Lammermoor, in French]		 grand opéra[22] 3 acts (or 4)[22] Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, after the Italian libretto 6 August 1839 Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance
Le duc d'Albe
[see also Il duca d'Alba]		 grand opéra 4 acts Charles Duveyrier and Eugène Scribe incomplete, composed 1839[23]  
L'Ange de Nisida
[see also La favorite]		 opera semiseria 4 parts Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz 18 July 2018  Completed 27 December 1839[24] Royal Opera House, London
Lucrezia Borgia [rev] dramma per musica prologue & 2 acts Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo 11 January 1840 Milan, La Scala
Les martyrs
[rev of Poliuto, in French]		 grand opéra 4 acts Eugène Scribe's revision and expansion of Cammarano's original libretto 10 April 1840 Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier
La fille du régiment opéra comique 2 acts Jean-François-Alfred Bayard and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges 11 February 1840 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Lucrezia Borgia [rev 2] dramma per musica prologue & 2 acts Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo 31 October 1840 Paris, Théâtre-Italien
La favorite
[rev of L'ange de Nisida]		 grand opéra 4 acts Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz and Eugène Scribe 2 December 1840 Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier
Adelia melodramma serio 3 acts Felice Romani (Acts 1 & 2) and Girolamo Marini (Act 3), after an anonymous French play[25] 11 February 1841 Rome, Teatro Apollo
Rita
(subtitled ou Le Mari battu)		 opéra comique 1 act Gustave Vaëz 7 May 1860, completed 1841 Paris, Opéra-Comique
Maria Padilla melodramma 3 acts Gaetano Rossi and Donizetti, after Jacques-François Ancelot 26 December 1841 Milan, La Scala
Linda di Chamounix melodramma semiserio 3 acts Gaetano Rossi 19 May 1842 Vienna, Kärntnertortheater
Linda di Chamounix [rev] melodramma semiserio 3 acts Gaetano Rossi 17 November 1842 Paris, Théâtre-Italien
Caterina Cornaro tragedia lirica prologue & 2 acts Giacomo Sacchèro, after Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges' libretto for Halévy's La reine de Chypre 18 January 1844 Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Don Pasquale dramma buffo 3 acts Giovanni Ruffini and Donizetti, after Angelo Anelli's Ser Marcantonio; published with credit to "M.A."[26] 3 January 1843 Paris, Théâtre-Italien
Maria di Rohan melodramma tragico 3 acts Salvadore Cammarano, after Lockroy (J. P. Simon) and Badon's Un duel sous le Cardinal de Richelieu 5 June 1843 Vienna, Kärntnertortheater
Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal grand opéra 5 acts Eugène Scribe, after the play by Paul Foucher 13 November 1843 Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier
Dom Sebastian von Portugal
[rev of Dom Sébastien]		 große Oper[27] 5 acts Leo Herz's translation of Scribe's libretto 6 February 1845 Vienna, Kärntnertortheater
Il duca d'Alba [completion by Matteo Salvi of original Le duc d'Albe] opera 4 acts[28] Angelo Zanardini's revision of the original libretto by Duveyrier and Scribe 22 March 1882 Rome, Teatro Apollo
Dalinda [de] [3rd and substantial revision of Lucrezia Borgia, intended for Naples, but rejected by the censors; then lost; rediscovered in 2019] opera seria 3 acts Felice Romani 14 May 2023 (concert)
4 September 2024 (stage) 		Konzerthaus Berlin
Baxter Theatre, Opera UCT[29]

Notes

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  1. ^ Pasticcio performed by Mayr's students

References

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  1. ^ The information in the table is taken from Smart & Budden 2001, unless otherwise noted.
  2. ^ Operas are initially listed by date of completion of composition, which usually correlates closely with the date of the premiere. When the date of completion is significantly earlier than the date of the premiere (or there was no premiere), the date of composition is given. However, the column rows sort by the date of the premiere (or by the date of composition, if there is no premiere). To restore the initial state use the browser refresh button.
  3. ^ Olimpiade: Donizetti composed the one duet from Metastasio's famous libretto, probably during his student days for his friends. A copyist full score is located in the Museo Donizettiano, Bergamo (Ashbrook 1982, pp. 580–581).
  4. ^ L'ira di Achille: Donizetti set the first act and a duet from Act 2 scene v. The libretto, probably by Felice Romani, had previously been set by Giuseppe Nicolini (Milan, 1814). A copyist full score of a bass aria with chorus is listed in the catalog of the Museo Donizettiano, Bergamo (Ashbrook 1982, p. 580).
  5. ^ I piccioli virtuosi ambulanti was the title of one of the annual end-of-term pasticcios that were organized by the Bergamo music school's director, the composer Simon Mayr. Donizetti contributed an introduzione and a scene with aria and chorus, which he also used in Le nozze in villa (Ashbrook 1982, p. 581).
  6. ^ Allitt 1991, p. 26.
  7. ^ Weinstock 1963, p. 36: He notes that Schmidt "wrote more than one hundred librettos"
  8. ^ Osborne 1994, p. 158.
  9. ^ OCLC 498281465
  10. ^ a b Ashbrook 1982, p. 544
  11. ^ Steiner-Isenmann 1982, p. 503; Smart & Budden 2001
  12. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 547.
  13. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 548.
  14. ^ Smart & Budden 2001.
  15. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 549.
  16. ^ OCLC 40787703, 82723197
  17. ^ Osborne 1994, p. 198.
  18. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 551, and Osborne 1994, p. 200. Smart & Budden 2001 say Gilardoni's libretto was based on Charles Simon Favart's libretto Ninette à la cour as adapted for Louis Joseph Saint-Amans' 2-act 1791 opéra-comique.
  19. ^ Ashbrook & Hibberd 2001, p. 235.
  20. ^ a b Ashbrook & Hibberd 2001, p. 236
  21. ^ a b Osborne 1994, p. 257
  22. ^ a b Lucie de Lammermoor. OCLC 71624699, 18597094.
  23. ^ Le duc d'Albe: composed April–October 1839 (Ashbrook 1982, p. 567). See also OCLC 63909833.
  24. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 569.
  25. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 571.
  26. ^ Weinstock 1963, pp. 188–189.
  27. ^ Dom Sebastian von Portugal. OCLC 79789205.
  28. ^ Il duca d'Alba. OCLC 174363469.
  29. ^ Allison, John. Report from Cape Town. Opera, Vol.75 No.11, p1547-48.

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