List of operas by Auber
This is a list of the complete operas of the French composer Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782–1871).
Auber wrote 31 opéras comiques, 7 opéras, 3 drames lyriques, and one each of works designated as comédie, comédie mêlée de chant, intermède, opéra féerie, opéra historique, scène lyrique and scène-prologue. All were premiered in Paris, except Jean de Couvain, which was premiered in Chimay (now in Belgium), and La fête de Versailles, which was premiered in Versailles.
List
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Theatre |
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Julie (L'erreur d'un moment) | comédie | 1 act | BoutetJacques Marie Boutet (Monvel) | 1805-00-001805 | Salle Doyen |
Jean de Couvain | opéra comique | 3 acts | LemercierNépomucène Lemercier | 1812-09-00September 1812 | ChimayChâteau de Chimay |
sejourLe séjour militaire | opéra comique | 1 act | BouillyJean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emanuel Mercier-Dupaty | 1813-02-2727 February 1813 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
testamentLe testament et les billets doux | comédie mêlée de chant | 1 act | PlanardFrançois-Antoine-Eugène Planard | 1819-09-1818 September 1819 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
bergereLa bergère châtelaine | opéra comique | 3 acts | PlanardFrançois-Antoine-Eugène Planard | 1820-01-2727 January 1820 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
Emma, ou La promesse imprudente | opéra comique | 3 acts | PlanardFrançois-Antoine-Eugène Planard | 1821-07-077 July 1821 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
Leicester, ou Le château de Kenilworth | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Mélesville, after Walter Scott | 1823-01-2525 January 1823 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
neigeLa neige, ou Le nouvel Eginhard | opéra comique | 4 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne | 1823-10-088 October 1823 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
Vendôme en Espagne; together with: Ferdinand Hérold | drame lyrique | 1 act | EmpisAdolphe-Simonis Empis and Edouard Mennechet | 1823-12-055 December 1823 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier |
troisLes trois genres; in collaboration with: François-Adrien Boieldieu | scène lyrique | 1.1Prologue and 1 act | ScribeEugène Scribe, Emanuel Mercier-Dupaty and Michel Pichat | 1824-04-2727 April 1824 | Théâtre de l'Odéon |
concertLe concert à la cour, ou La débutante | opéra comique | 1 act | ScribeEugène Scribe and Mélésville | 1824-05-055 May 1824 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
Léocadie | drame lyrique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Mélésville, after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 1824-11-044 November 1824 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
maconLe maçon | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne | 1825-05-033 May 1825 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
timideLe timide, ou Le nouveau séducteur | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and X. B. Saintine | 1826-06-022 June 1826 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
Fiorella | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1826-11-2828 November 1826 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
muetteLa muette de Portici (Masaniello) | opéra | 5 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne | 1828-02-2929 February 1828 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier |
fiancee aLa fiancée | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe, after Les contes de l'atelier by Michel Masson and Raymond Brucker | 1829-01-1010 January 1829 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
Fra Diavolo, ou L’hôtellerie de Terracine | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1830-01-2828 January 1830 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Ventadour. Revised in Italian, with added numbers and spoken dialogue replaced by recitatives; London, Lyceum Theatre, 9 July 1857 |
dieuLe dieu et la bayadère, ou La courtisane amoureuse | opéra | 2 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1830-10-1313 October 1830 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier |
philtreLe philtre | opéra | 2 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1831-06-1520 June 1831[1] | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier |
marquiseLa marquise de Brinvilliers (in collaboration with: Désiré-Alexandre Batton, Henri-Montan Berton, Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Michele Carafa, Luigi Cherubini, Ferdinand Hérold and Ferdinando Paer) | drame lyrique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Castil-Blaze | 1831-10-3131 October 1831 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Ventadour |
sermentLe serment, ou Les faux-monnayeurs | opéra | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Édouard-Joseph-Ennemond Mazères | 1832-10-011 October 1832 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier |
Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué | opéra historique | 5 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1833-02-2727 February 1833 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier |
Lestocq, ou L’intrigue et l’amour | opéra comique | 4 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1834-05-2424 May 1834 | Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse |
chevalLe cheval de bronze | opéra féerie | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1835-03-2323 March 1835 | Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse.[2] Revised with a ballet added; 21 September 1857, Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier |
Actéon | opéra comique | 1 act | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1836-01-2323 January 1836 | Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse |
chaperonsLes chaperons blancs | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1836-03-269 April 1836 | Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse |
ambassadriceL'ambassadrice | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | 1836-12-2121 December 1836 | Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse |
feteLa fête de Versailles | intermède | 1 act | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1837-06-1010 June 1837 | Palace of Versailles |
dominoLe domino noir | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1837-12-022 December 1837 | Opéra-Comique, Salle de la Bourse |
lacLe lac des fées | opéra | 5 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Mélésville | 1839-04-011 April 1839 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier |
Zanetta, ou Jouer avec le feu | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | 1840-05-1818 May 1840 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
diamantsLes diamants de la couronne | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | 1841-03-066 March 1841 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
ducLe duc d'Olonne | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Xavier Saintine | 1842-02-044 February 1842 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
partLa part du diable | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1843-01-1616 January 1843 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
sireneLa sirène | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1844-03-2626 March 1844 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
barcarolleLa barcarolle, ou L’amour et la musique | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1844-04-2222 April 1845 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
premiersLes premiers pas; in collaboration with: Adolphe Adam, Michele Carafa and Jacques Fromental Halévy | scène-prologue | Prologue and 1 act | RoyerAlphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz | 1847-11-1515 November 1847 | Opéra-National, Cirque Olympique[3] |
Haydée, ou Le secret | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe, based on a short story by Prosper Mérimée Le parti de trictrac (1830). | 1847-12-2828 December 1847 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
enfantL'enfant prodigue | opéra | 5 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1850-12-066 December 1850 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier |
Zerline, ou La corbeille d'oranges | opéra | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1851-05-1616 May 1851 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier |
Marco Spada | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne; final scene after La confession du bandit by Horace Vernet | 1852-12-2121 December 1852 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
Jenny Bell | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1855-06-022 June 1855 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
Manon Lescaut | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe, after L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost | 1856-02-2323 February 1856 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
circassienneLa circassienne | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe | 1861-02-022 February 1861 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
fiancee duLa fiancée du roi de Garbe | opéra comique | 3 acts | ScribeEugène Scribe and Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | 1864-01-1111 January 1864 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
premierLe premier jour de bonheur | opéra comique | 3 acts | DenneryAdolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon | 1868-02-1515 February 1868 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
Rêve d'amour | opéra comique | 3 acts | DenneryAdolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon | 1869-12-2020 December 1869 | Opéra-Comique, Salle Favart II |
References
Notes
- ↑ Pitou 1993, p. 1427; see also OCLC 165539885; Schneider 1992, vol. 1, p. 246, gives the date of the premiere as 15 June 1831.
- ↑ Wild & Charlton 2005, p. 189; see also Scribe's libretto at Google Books. The New Grove Dictionary of Music (2001) erroneously places the premiere at the Opéra.
- ↑ Walsh 1981, p. 359.
Sources
- Pitou, Spire (1990). The Paris Opéra: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers. Growth and Grandeur, 1815–1914. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-26218-0.
- Schneider, Herbert (1992). "Auber, Daniel-François-Esprit" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-228-9.
- Walsh, T. J. (1981). Second Empire Opera: The Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, 1851–1870. London: John Calder. ISBN 978-0-7145-3659-0.
- Wild, Nicole; Charlton, David (2005). Théâtre de l'Opéra-Comique Paris: répertoire 1762-1972. Sprimont, Belgium: Editions Mardaga. ISBN 978-2-87009-898-1.
Some of the information in this article was originally taken from the Dutch Wikipedia article.
External links
- Free scores by Auber, Daniel François Esprit at the International Music Score Library Project
- "Catalogue des oeuvres", list of works, Musicologie.org, accessed 30 October 2009 (French)
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