List of operas and operettas by Léo Delibes
This is list of operas and operettas written by the French composer Léo Delibes (1836–1891).
| Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La princesse Ravigote | opéra comique | 3 acts | lost | ||
| Le Don Juan suisse | opérette | 4 acts | lost | ||
| Le roi des montagnes | opéra comique | 3 acts | unfinished | ||
| Deux sous de charbon ou Le suicide de Bigorneau | opérette ('asphyxie lyrique') | 1 act | Jules Moinaux | 9 February 1856 | Paris, Folies-Nouvelles |
| Deux vieilles gardes | opérette | 1 act | Ferdinand de Villeneuve and Alphonse Lemonnier | 8 August 1856 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
| Six demoiselles à marier | opérette | 1 act | Ernest Jaime and Adolphe Choler | 12 November 1856 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
| Maître Griffard | opéra comique | 1 act | Eugène Mestépès and Adolphe Jaime | 3 October 1857 | Paris, Théâtre Lyrique |
| La fille du golfe | opéra comique | 1 act | composed 1859, but unperformed? | ||
| L'omelette à la Follembuche | opérette | 1 act | Eugène Labiche and Marc-Michel | 8 June 1859 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
| Monsieur de Bonne-Étoile | opéra comique | 1 act | Philippe Gille | 4 February 1860 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
| Les musiciens de l'orchestre (with Jacques Offenbach, Jules Erlanger, and Aristide Hignard) | opérette | 2 acts | Philippe Auguste Pittaud de Forges and A. Bourdois | 25 January 1861 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
| Les eaux d'Ems | comédie | 1 act | Hector-Jonathan Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy | Summer 1862 | Bad Ems, Kursaal |
| Mon ami Pierrot | opérette | 1 act | Lockroy (Joseph Philippe Simon) | July 1862 | Bad Ems, Kursaal |
| Le jardinier et son seigneur | opéra comique | 1 act | Michel Carré and Théodore Barrière | 1 May 1863 | Paris, Théâtre Lyrique |
| Le tradition | prologue en vers | 1 act | H Derville | 5 January 1864 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
| Grande nouvelle | opérette | 1 act | A Boisgonnier | composed 1864, but unperformed? | |
| Le serpent à plumes | farce | 1 act | Philippe Gille and Cham (Amédée de Noé) | 16 December 1864 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
| Le boeuf Apis | opéra comique | 2 acts | Philippe Gille and Eugène Furpille | 15 April 1865 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
| Malbrough s'en va-t-en guerre - Act 4 only with Georges Bizet (Act 1), Isidore Legouix (Act 2) and Émile Jonas (Act 3) | opérette | 4 acts | Paul Siraudin and William Busnach | 13 December 1867 | Paris, Théâtre de l'Athénée |
| L'écossais de Chatou | opérette | 1 act | Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime | 16 January 1869 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens |
| La cour du roi Pétaud | opéra comique | 3 acts | Philippe Gille and Adolphe Jaime | 24 April 1869 | Paris, Théâtre des Variétés[1] |
| Le roi l'a dit | opéra comique | 3 acts | Edmond Gondinet | 24 May 1873 | Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Jean de Nivelle | opéra | 3 acts | Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille | 8 March 1880 | Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Lakmé | opéra | 3 acts | Edmond Gondinet and Philippe Gille, after Pierre Loti | 14 April 1883 | Paris, Opéra-Comique |
| Kassya (unfinished, completed by Jules Massenet) | drame lyrique | 4 acts | Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille | 24 March 1893 | Paris, Opéra-Comique |
References
- Macdonald, Hugh (1992), "Delibes, Léo" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
- Reel, James. Léo Delibes – compositions at AllMusic
- Some of the information in this article is taken from the Dutch Wikipedia article.
- ↑ An English-language adaptation by Henry Brougham Farnie was produced as Fleur-de-lys on 5 April 1873 at the Philharmonic Theatre, London, produced by Charles Morton
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