List of operas by Luigi Cherubini

This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian-born composer Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842) who spent much of his working life in France.

In terms of genre, Cherubini's output included 11 opere serie and 10 opéras comiques, as well as three intermezzi, three tragédies lyriques, two opere buffe, and one each of the following: comédie héroïque, comédie lyrique, comédie mêlée d'ariettes, drame lyrique, dramma lirico, opéra bouffon, and opéra-ballet.

List

TitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatre
Amore artigianointermezzounknownafter Carlo Goldoni22 October 1773Fiesole, Teatro San Domenico
Il giocatoreintermezzounknownlibrettist unknown and score lost composed 1775?Florence
(untitled)intermezzounknownlibrettist unknown16 February 1778Florence, Serviti
Il Quinto Fabioopera seria3 actsApostolo ZenoAutumn 1779Alessandria, Teatro Paglia
Armida abbandonataopera seria3 actsBartolomeo Vitturi, based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata25 January 1782Florence, La Pergola
Adriano in Siriaopera seria3 actsMetastasio16 April 1782Livorno, Teatro Armeni
Mesenzio, re d'Etruriaopera seria3 actsFerdinando Casor(r)i6 September 1782Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Il Quinto Fabio
(second version)		opera seria3 actsApostolo ZenoJanuary 1783Rome, Teatro Argentina
Lo sposo di tre e marito di nessunaopera buffa2 actsFilippo LivigniNovember 1783Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Olimpiadeopera seria3 acts?Metastasio1783Venice?
L'Allessandro nelle Indieopera seria2 actsMetastasioApril 1784Mantua, Teatro Nuovo Regio Ducale
L'Idalideopera seria2 actsFerdinando Moretti26 December 1784Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Demetrioopera seria4 pieces onlyMetastasio1785London, King's Theatre
La finta principessaopera buffa2 actsFilippo Livigni2 April 1785London, King's Theatre
Il Giulio Sabinoopera seria2 actsPietro Giovannini30 March 1786London, King's Theatre
Ifigenia in Aulideopera seria3 actsFerdinando Moretti, after François Louis Gaud Lebland Du Roullet12 January 1788Turin, Teatro Regio
Démophoontragédie lyrique3 actsJean-François Marmontel, after Metastasio2 December 1788Paris, Opéra
(Porte Saint-Martin)
Lodoïskacomédie héroïque3 actsClaude-François Fillette-Loraux after Les Amours du Chevalier Faublas by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrais18 July 1791Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
Koukourgi
(composed 1792-93[1])		opéra comique3 actsHonoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier18 September 2010Klagenfurt, Stadttheater Klagenfurt
Le congrès des rois
(together with Henri Montan Berton, Frédéric Blasius, Nicolas Dalayrac, Prosper-Didier Deshayes, François Devienne, André Grétry, Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Étienne Méhul, Jean-Pierre Solié and Armand-Emmanuel Trial)		comédie mêlée d'ariettes3 actsDesmaillot (Antoine-François Eve)26 February 1794Paris, Opéra-Comique
(Favart)
Eliza, ou Le voyage aux glaciers du Mont Saint Bernardopéra comique2 actsJacques-Antoine Révérony de Saint-Cyr13 December 1794Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
Médéeopéra comique3 actsFrançois-Benoît Hoffmann and Nicolas Étienne Framéry, after Euripides and Pierre Corneillefirst version: 13 March 1797[2]Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
L'hôtellerie portugaiseopéra comique1 actEtienne Saint-Aignan25 July 1798Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
La punitionopéra comique1 actJean-Louis Brousse Desfaucheres23 February 1799Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
La prisionnièreopéra comique1 actEtienne de Jouy, Charles de Longchamps and Claude Godard d'Aucort de Saint-Just12 September 1799Paris, Théâtre Montansier
Les deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eaucomédie lyrique3 actsJean-Nicolas Bouilly16 January 1800Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
Épicure (with Méhul)opéra comique3 acts, revised as 2 actsCharles-Albert Desmoustier14 March 1800Paris, Opéra-Comique
(Favart)
Anacréon ou L'amour fugitifopéra-ballet2 actsC. R. Mendouze4 October 1803Paris, Opéra
(Théâtre des Arts)
Faniskaopéra comique3 actsJoseph von Sonnleitner after René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt25 February 1806Vienna, Theater am Kärntnertor
Pimmalionedramma lirico1 actStefano Vestris, after Antonio Simone Sografi's Italian version of Pygmalion by Jean-Jacques Rousseau30 November 1809Paris, Théâtre des Tuileries
Le crescendoopéra bouffon1 actCharles-Augustine de Bassompierre de Sewrin1 September 1810Paris, Opéra-Comique
(Feydeau)
Les Abencérages, ou L'étendard de Grenadetragédie lyrique3 actsVictor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after François-René de Chateaubriand, based on Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's novel Gonsalve de Cordoue6 April 1813Paris, Opéra
(Théâtre des Arts)
Bayard à Mézièresopéra comique1 actEmmanuel Dupaty and René de Chazet12 February 1814Paris, Opéra-Comique
(Feydeau)
Blanche de Provence, ou La cour de fées
(composed with Henri Montan Berton, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Ferdinando Paer)		opéra comique3 actsEmmanuel Théaulon and Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé1 May 1821Paris, Théâtre des Tuileries
La marquise de Brinvilliers
(composed in collaboration with Daniel Auber, Désiré-Alexandre Batton, Henri Montan Berton, Felice Blangini, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Michele Carafa, Ferdinand Hérold and Ferdinando Paer)		drame lyrique3 actsEugène Scribe and Castil-Blaze (François-Henri-Joseph Blaze)31 October 1831Paris, Opéra-Comique
(Ventadour)
Ali Baba, ou Les quarante voleurstragédie lyriquePrologue and 4 actsEugène Scribe and Mélesville22 July 1833Paris, Opéra
(Salle Le Peletier)

References

Notes

  1. ↑ Koukourgi (1792–93)" at Boosey & Hawkes
  2. ↑ Italian translation, as Medea: 6 November 1802, Vienna; in 1809, Cherubini cut about 500 bars for a shortened version, also for Vienna.

Sources

  • Willis, Stephen C (1992), "Cherubini, Luigi" 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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