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 of operas
| Title | Genre | Acts | Libretto | Premiere | |
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| Date | Venue | ||||
| Amore artigiano | intermezzo | unknown | after Carlo Goldoni | 22 October 1773 | Fiesole, Teatro San Domenico |
| Il giocatore | intermezzo | unknown | librettist unknown and score lost | composed 1775? | Florence |
| (untitled) | intermezzo | unknown | librettist unknown | 16 February 1778 | Florence, Serviti |
| Il Quinto Fabio | opera seria | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno | Autumn 1779 | Alessandria, Teatro Paglia |
| Armida abbandonata | opera seria | 3 acts | Bartolomeo Vitturi, based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata | 25 January 1782 | Florence, La Pergola |
| Adriano in Siria | opera seria | 3 acts | Metastasio | 16 April 1782 | Livorno, Teatro Armeni |
| Mesenzio, re d'Etruria | opera seria | 3 acts | Ferdinando Casor(r)i | 6 September 1782 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola |
| Il Quinto Fabio (second version) |
opera seria | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno | January 1783 | Rome, Teatro Argentina |
| Lo sposo di tre e marito di nessuna | opera buffa | 2 acts | Filippo Livigni | November 1783 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele |
| Olimpiade | opera seria | 3 acts? | Metastasio | 1783 | Venice? |
| L'Alessandro nelle Indie | opera seria | 2 acts | Metastasio | April 1784 | Mantua, Teatro Nuovo Regio Ducale |
| L'Idalide | opera seria | 2 acts | Ferdinando Moretti | 26 December 1784 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola |
| Demetrio | opera seria | 4 pieces only | Metastasio | 1785 | London, King's Theatre |
| La finta principessa | opera buffa | 2 acts | Filippo Livigni | 2 April 1785 | London, King's Theatre |
| Il Giulio Sabino | opera seria | 2 acts | Pietro Giovannini | 30 March 1786 | London, King's Theatre |
| Ifigenia in Aulide | opera seria | 3 acts | Ferdinando Moretti, after François Louis Gaud Lebland Du Roullet | 12 January 1788 | Turin, Teatro Regio |
| Démophoon | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Jean-François Marmontel, after Metastasio | 2 December 1788 | Paris, Opéra (Porte Saint-Martin) |
| Lodoïska | comédie héroïque | 3 acts | Claude-François Fillette-Loraux after Les Amours du Chevalier Faublas by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrais | 18 July 1791 | Paris, Théâtre Feydeau |
| Koukourgi (composed 1792-93) |
opéra comique | 3 acts | Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier | 18 September 2010 | Klagenfurt, 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'ariettes | 3 acts | Desmaillot (Antoine-François Eve) | 26 February 1794 | Paris, Opéra-Comique (Favart) |
| Eliza, ou Le voyage aux glaciers du Mont Saint Bernard | opéra comique | 2 acts | Jacques-Antoine Révérony de Saint-Cyr | 13 December 1794 | Paris, Théâtre Feydeau |
| Médée | opéra comique | 3 acts | François-Benoît Hoffmann and Nicolas Étienne Framéry, after Euripides and Pierre Corneille | first version: 13 March 1797 | Paris, Théâtre Feydeau |
| L'hôtellerie portugaise | opéra comique | 1 act | Etienne Saint-Aignan | 25 July 1798 | Paris, Théâtre Feydeau |
| La punition | opéra comique | 1 act | Jean-Louis Brousse Desfaucheres | 23 February 1799 | Paris, Théâtre Feydeau |
| Emma ou La prisionnière (composed together with François-Adrien Boieldieu) | opéra comique | 1 act | Etienne de Jouy, Charles de Longchamps and Claude Godard d'Aucort de Saint-Just | 12 September 1799 | Paris, Théâtre Montansier |
| Les deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau | comédie lyrique | 3 acts | Jean-Nicolas Bouilly | 16 January 1800 | Paris, Théâtre Feydeau |
| Épicure (with Étienne Méhul) | opéra comique | 3 acts, revised as 2 acts | Charles-Albert Desmoustier | 14 March 1800 | Paris, Opéra-Comique (Favart) |
| Anacréon ou L'amour fugitif | opéra-ballet | 2 acts | C. R. Mendouze | 4 October 1803 | Paris, Opéra (Théâtre des Arts) |
| Faniska | opéra comique | 3 acts | Joseph von Sonnleitner after René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt | 25 February 1806 | Vienna, Theater am Kärntnertor |
| Pimmalione | dramma lirico | 1 act | Stefano Vestris, after Antonio Simone Sografi's Italian version of Pygmalion by Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 30 November 1809 | Paris, Théâtre des Tuileries |
| Le crescendo | opéra bouffon | 1 act | Charles-Augustine de Bassompierre de Sewrin | 1 September 1810 | Paris, Opéra-Comique (Feydeau) |
| Les Abencérages, ou L'étendard de Grenade | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after François-René de Chateaubriand, based on Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's novel Gonsalve de Cordoue | 6 April 1813 | Paris, Opéra (Théâtre des Arts) |
| Bayard à Mézières (in collaboration with François-Adrien Boieldieu, Nicolas Isouard and Charles-Simon Catel) |
opéra comique | 1 act | Emmanuel Dupaty and René de Chazet | 12 February 1814 | Paris, 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 comique | 3 acts | Emmanuel Théaulon and Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé | 1 May 1821 | Paris, 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 lyrique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Castil-Blaze (François-Henri-Joseph Blaze) | 31 October 1831 | Paris, Opéra-Comique (Ventadour) |
| Ali Baba, ou Les quarante voleurs | tragédie lyrique | Prologue and 4 acts | Eugène Scribe and Mélesville | 22 July 1833 | Paris, Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) |
References
Notes
- Koukourgi (1792–93)" at Boosey & Hawkes
- 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 Misplaced Pages article.
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