List of operas by Donizetti

This is a list of the operas by the Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848).

Title[1]GenreSub­divi­sionsLibrettoPremiere date[2]Place, theatreNotes
PigmalioneIl Pigmalionescena drammatica1 act 1960-10-1313 October 1960, completed 1816 Bergamo, Teatro Donizetti 
Olimpiade  Metastasio's L'Olimpiade1817-00-00incomplete, composed 1817[3]  
IraL'ira di Achille 1 act 1817-00-00incomplete, composed 1817[4] 
Enrico di Borgognamelodramma2 acts Merelli01Bartolomeo Merelli1818-11-1414 November 1818Venice, Teatro San Luca 
FolliaUna folliafarsa1 actMerelli02Bartolomeo Merelli1818-12-1717 December 1818, lostVenice, Teatro San Luca
PiccioliI piccioli virtuosi ambulantiopera buffa1 act 1819-00-001819[5] pasticcio performed by Mayr's students
FalegnameIl falegname di Livonia, o Pietro il grande, czar delle Russieopera buffa2 actsBevilacquaGherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini1819-12-2626 December 1819Venice, Teatro San Samuele 
NozzeLe nozze in villaopera buffa2 acts Merelli03Bartolomeo Merelli1820-12-00carnival 1820–1821, completed 1819Mantua, Teatro Vecchio 
Zoraida di Granatamelodramma heroico2 acts Merelli04Bartolomeo Merelli; revised for Rome 1824 by Jacopo Ferretti[6]1822-01-2828 January 1822Rome, Teatro Argentina, rev. 7 January 1824 at the same theatre 
ZingaraLa zingaradramma2 actsTottola01Andrea Leone Tottola1822-05-1212 May 1822Naples, Teatro Nuovo 
LetteraLa lettera anonimadramma per musica1 actGenoinoGiulio Genoino1822-06-2929 June 1822Naples, Teatro del Fondo 
Chiara e Serafina, o Il piratamelodramma semiserio2 actsRomani01Felice Romani, after Pixérécourt's La cisterne1822-10-2626 October 1822Milan, La Scala 
Alfredo il grandedramma per musica2 actsTottola02Andrea Leone Tottola1823-07-022 July 1823Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
FortunatoIl fortunato ingannodramma giocoso2 actsTottola03Andrea Leone Tottola1823-09-033 September 1823Naples, Teatro Nuovo 
AjoL'ajo nell'imbarazzo
[see also Don Gregorio]
melodramma giocoso2 actsFerretti01Jacopo Ferretti, after Giovanni Giraud's comedy1824-02-044 February 1824Rome, Teatro Valle 
Emilia di Liverpool
[see also L'eremitaggio di Liverpool]
dramma semiserio2 actsanonymous, after S. Scatizzi's Emilia de Laverpaut1824-07-2828 July 1824Naples, Teatro Nuovo 
Alahor in Granatadramma2 actsAM. A.1826-01-077 January 1826Palermo, Teatro Carolino 
Don Gregorio
[rev of L'ajo nell'imbarazzo]
melodramma giocoso2 actsFerretti02Jacopo Ferretti1826-06-1111 June 1826Naples, Teatro Nuovo 
Elvidadramma1 actGiovanni F. Schmidt[7]1826-07-066 July 1826Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Gabriella di Vergytragedia lirica3 actsTottola04Andrea Leone Tottola, after Pierre de Belloy1869-11-2929 November 1869, completed 1826Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Olivo e Pasqualemelodramma2 actsFerretti03Jacopo Ferretti, after Simeone Antonio Sografi1827-01-077 January 1827Rome, Teatro Valle 
Otto mesi in due ore, ossia Gli esiliati in Siberiaopera romantica3 actsGilardoni01Domenico Gilardoni, after Pixérécourt's La fille de l'exilé1827-05-1313 May 1827Naples, Teatro Nuovo 
BorgomastroIl borgomastro di Saardammelodramma giocoso2 actsGilardoni02Domenico Gilardoni, after Mélesville, Jean-Toussaint Merle and Eugène Cantiran de Boirie1827-08-1919 August 1827Naples, Teatro del Fondo 
Convenienze teatraliLe convenienze teatrali
[see also Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali]
farsa1 actDonizetti01Gaetano Donizetti, after Simeone Antonio Sografi1827-11-2121 November 1827Naples, Teatro Nuovo 
EsuleL'esule di Roma, ossia Il proscrittomelodramma eroico2 actsGilardoni03Domenico Gilardoni, after Luigi Marchionni's Il proscritto romano1828-01-011 January 1828Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
EremitaggioL'eremitaggio di Liverpool
[rev of Emilia di Liverpool][8]
melodramma semiserio[9]2 actsCheccheriniGiuseppe Checcherini, after Scatizzi1828-03-088 March 1828Naples, Teatro Nuovo 
Alina, regina di Golcondamelodramma2 actsRomani02Felice Romani, after Sedaine's libretto for Monsigny's opera-ballet Aline, reine de Golconde[10]1828-05-1212 May 1828Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice 
Gianni di Calaismelodramma semiserio3 actsGilardoni04Domenico Gilardoni, after a novel by Arlincourt[11]1828-08-022 August 1828Naples, Teatro del Fondo 
PariaIl pariamelodramma2 actsGilardoni05Domenico Gilardoni, after Delavigne1829-01-1212 January 1829Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
GiovediIl giovedì grasso, o Il nuovo Pourceaugnacfarsa[12]1 actGilardoni06Domenico Gilardoni1829-02-2626 February 1829Naples, Teatro del Fondo 
CastelloElisabetta al castello di Kenilworthmelodramma3 actsTottola05Andrea Leone Tottola, after Scribe's Leicester and Hugo's Amy Robsart1829-07-066 July 1829Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Alina, regina di Golconda [rev]melodramma2 actsRomani03Felice Romani, after Sedaine1829-10-1010 October 1829Rome, Teatro Valle[10] 
PazziI pazzi per progettofarsa[13]1 actGilardoni07Domenico Gilardoni1830-02-066 February 1830Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
DiluvioIl diluvio universaleazione tragica-sacra3 actsGilardoni08Domenico Gilardoni, after Byron's Heaven and Earth and Francesco Ringhieri's tragedy Il diluvio1830-03-066 March 1830[14]Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Imelda de' Lambertazzimelodramma tragico2 actsTottola06Andrea Leone Tottola1830-09-055 September 1830Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Anna Bolenatragedia lirica2 actsRomani04Felice Romani, after Pindemonte's tragedy Enrico VIII, ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena[15]1830-12-2626 December 1830Milan, Teatro Carcano 
Gianni di Parigimelodramma comico[16]2 actsRomani05Felice Romani, after Saint-Just's libretto for Boieldieu's opéra-comique Jean de Paris1831-04-9910 September 1839, composed c. 1828–1831[17]Milan, La Scala 
Convenienze edLe convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali
[rev of Le convenienze teatrali]
dramma giocoso2 actsDonizetti01bDonizetti, after Sografi1831-04-2020 April 1831Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana 
Francesca di Foixmelodramma1 actGilardoni09Domenico 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]1831-05-3030 May 1831Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
RomanzieraLa romanziera e l'uomo nero
(or La romanzesca e l'uomo nero)
farsa1 actGilardoni10Domenico Gilardoni1831-06-1818 June 1831Naples, Teatro del Fondo (arias and ensembles survive but spoken dialogue is lost) 
Faustamelodramma2 actsGilardoni11Domenico Gilardoni and Donizetti1832-01-1212 January 1832Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Ugo, conte di Parigitragedia lirica4 actsRomani06Felice Romani, after Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis: Blanche d'Aquitaine1832-03-1313 March 1832Milan, La Scala 
ElisirL'elisir d'amoremelodramma giocoso2 actsRomani07Felice Romani, after Scribe's libretto for Auber's Le philtre1832-05-1212 May 1832Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana 
Sancia di Castigliatragedia lirica2 actsSalatinoPietro Salatino1832-11-044 November 1832Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
FuriosoIl furioso all'isola di San Domingomelodramma2 actsFerretti04Jacopo Ferretti, after an anonymous play on Cervantes' Don Quixote1833-01-022 January 1833Rome, Teatro Valle 
Otto mesi in due ore [rev]opera romantica3 actsAlcozerAntonio Alcozer after Domenico Gilardoni1833-01-991833Livorno 
Parisinamelodramma3 actsRomani08Felice Romani, after Byron1833-03-1717 March 1833Florence, Teatro della Pergola 
Torquato Tassomelodramma3 actsFerretti05Jacopo Ferretti1833-09-099 September 1833Rome, Teatro Valle 
Lucrezia0Lucrezia Borgiamelodramma2.1prologue & 2 actsRomani09Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo1833-12-2626 December 1833Milan, La Scala 
DiluvioIl diluvio universale [rev]azione tragico-sacra3 actsGilardoni08banonymous, after Domenico Gilardoni1834-01-1717 January 1834Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice 
Rosmonda d'Inghilterramelodramma serio2 actsRomani10Felice Romani1834-02-2727 February 1834Florence, Teatro della Pergola 
MariaMaria Stuardatragedia lirica2 acts (or 3)BardariGiuseppe Bardari, after Andrea Maffei's translation of Schiller[19]1835-12-3030 December 1835 (in 3 acts), completed August 1834Milan, La Scala 
BuondelmonteBuondelmonte
[rev of Maria Stuarda]
tragedia lirica2 actsSalatinoPietro Salatino1834-10-1818 October 1834Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Gemma di Vergytragedia lirica2 actsBidera01Giovanni Emanuele Bidera, after the play Charles VII by Dumas[20]1834-12-2626 December 1834Milan, La Scala 
Marino Falierotragedia lirica3 actsBidera02Giovanni Emanuele Bidera with revisions by Agostino Ruffini, after Casimir Delavigne's adaptation of Byron's play Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice[20]1835-03-1212 March 1835Paris, Théâtre-Italien 
Lucia di Lammermoor
[see also Lucie de Lammermoor]
dramma tragico3 actsCammarano01Salvadore Cammarano, after Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor1835-09-2626 September 1835Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Belisariotragedia lirica3 actsCammarano02Salvadore Cammarano, after Eduard von Schenk as translated by Luigi Marchionni1836-02-044 February 1836Venice, La Fenice 
CampanelloIl campanello di nottemelodramma giocoso1 actDonizetti02Donizetti, after the vaudeville La sonnette de nuit by Léon Levy Brunswick (Léon Lhérie), Mathieu-Barthélmy Troin, and Victor Lhérie1836-06-011 June 1836Naples, Teatro Nuovo 
Betly0Betly, o La capanna svizzeradramma giocoso1 actDonizetti03Donizetti, after Scribe's and Mélesville's libretto for Adam's Le chalet1836-08-2121 August 1836Naples, Teatro Nuovo 
assedioL'assedio di Calaisdramma lirico3 actsCammarano03Salvadore Cammarano, after Pierre de Belloy1836-11-1919 November 1836Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Pia0Pia de' Tolomeitragedia lirica2 actsCammarano04aSalvadore Cammarano, after Bartolomeo Sestini, and Dante's La commedia1837-02-1818 February 1837Venice, Teatro Apollo 
Pia1Pia de' Tolomei [rev]tragedia lirica2 actsCammarano04bSalvadore Cammarano, after Bartolomeo Sestini, and Dante's La commedia1837-07-3131 July 1837Sinigaglia 
Betly1Betly [rev]dramma giocoso1 actDonizetti03bDonizetti1837-09-2929 September 1837Naples, Teatro del Fondo 
Roberto Devereuxtragedia lirica3 actsCammarano04Salvadore Cammarano, after François Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre1837-10-2828 October 1837Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Maria de Rudenzdramma tragico3 actsCammarano05Salvadore Cammarano, after the play La nonne sanglante by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, Cuvelier and Maillan1838-01-3030 January 1838Venice, La Fenice 
Gabriella di Vergy [rev]tragedia lirica2 actsTottola04bAndrea Leone Tottola, after Pierre de Belloy1978-08-00August 1978 recording, composed 1838London 
Poliuto1Poliuto
[see also Les Martyrs]
tragedia lirica3 actsCammarano06Salvadore Cammarano, after Pierre Corneille1838-01-9130 November 1848, completed July 1838Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Pia2Pia de' Tolomei [rev 2]tragedia lirica2 actsCammarano04canonymous revision of Cammarano's libretto1838-05-00May 1838[21]Rome, Teatro Argentina[21] 
Lucie de Lammermoor
[rev of Lucia di Lammermoor, in French]
grand opéra[22]3 acts (or 4)[22]Royer01Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, after the Italian libretto1839-08-066 August 1839Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance 
Duc1Le duc d'Albe
[see also Il duca d'Alba]
grand opéra4 actsDuveyrierCharles Duveyrier and Eugène Scribe1839-10-00incomplete, composed 1839[23]  
AngeL'ange de Nisida
[see also La favorite]
opera semiseria4 partsRoyer02Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz1839-12-27unperformed, completed 27 December 1839[24]  
Lucrezia1Lucrezia Borgia [rev]dramma per musica2.1prologue & 2 actsRomani11Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo1840-01-1111 January 1840Milan, La Scala 
Poliuto2Les Martyrs
[rev of Poliuto, in French]
grand opéra4 actsScribe01Eugène Scribe's revision and expansion of Cammarano's original libretto1840-04-1010 April 1840Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier 
FilleLa fille du régimentopéra comique2 actsBayardJean-François-Alfred Bayard and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges1840-02-1111 February 1840Paris, Opéra-Comique 
Lucrezia2Lucrezia Borgia [rev 2]dramma per musica2.1prologue & 2 actsRomani12Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo1840-10-3131 October 1840Paris, Théâtre-Italien 
FavoriteLa favorite
[rev of L'ange de Nisida]
grand opéra4 actsRoyer03Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz and Eugène Scribe1840-12-022 December 1840Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier 
Adeliamelodramma serio3 actsRomani13Felice Romani (Acts 1 & 2) and Girolamo Marini (Act 3), after an anonymous French play[25]1841-02-1111 February 1841Rome, Teatro Apollo 
Rita
(Deux hommes et une femme)
opéra-comique1 actVaezGustave Vaëz1860-05-077 May 1860, completed 1841Paris, Opéra-Comique 
Maria Padillamelodramma3 actsRossi01Gaetano Rossi and Donizetti, after François Ancelot1841-12-2626 December 1841Milan, La Scala 
Linda di Chamounixmelodramma semiserio3 actsRossi02aGaetano Rossi1842-05-1919 May 1842Vienna, Kärntnertortheater 
Linda di Chamounix [rev]melodramma semiserio3 actsRossi02bGaetano Rossi1842-11-1717 November 1842Paris, Théâtre-Italien 
Caterina Cornarotragedia lirica2 actsSaccheroGiacomo Sacchèro, after Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges' libretto for Halévy's La reine de Chypre1844-01-1818 January 1844Naples, Teatro di San Carlo 
Don Pasqualedramma buffo3 actsRuffiniGiovanni Ruffini and Donizetti, after Angelo Anelli's Ser Marcantio; published with credit to "M.A."[26]1843-01-033 January 1843Paris, Théâtre-Italien 
Maria di Rohanmelodramma tragico3 actsCammarano07Salvadore Cammarano, after Lockroy (J. P. Simon) and Badon's Un duel sous le Cardinal de Richelieu1843-06-055 June 1843Vienna, Kärntnertortheater 
Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugalgrand opéra5 actsScribe02Eugène Scribe, after the play by Paul Foucher1843-11-1313 November 1843Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier 
Dom Sebastian von Portugal
[rev of Dom Sébastien]
große Oper[27]5 actsHerzLeo Herz's translation of Scribe's libretto1845-02-066 February 1845Vienna, Kärntnertortheater 
Duc2Il duca d'Alba [completion by Matteo Salvi of original Le duc d'Albe]opera4 acts[28]ZanardiniAngelo Zanardini's revision of the original libretto by Duveyrier and Scribe1882-03-2222 March 1882Rome, Teatro Apollo 

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Notes

  1. The information in the table is taken from Smart and 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. 1 2 Ashbrook 1982, p. 544.
  11. Steiner-Isenmann 1982, p. 503; Smart and Budden 2001.
  12. Ashbrook 1982, p. 547.
  13. Ashbrook 1982, p. 548.
  14. Smart and 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 and Ashbrook 1992 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. 1 2 Ashbrook & Hibberd 2001, p. 236.
  21. 1 2 Osborne 1994, p. 257.
  22. 1 2 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.

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