List of operas by Donizetti

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

Title[1]	Genre	Sub­divi­sions	Libretto	Premiere date[2]	Place, theatre	Notes
PigmalioneIl Pigmalione	scena drammatica	1 act		1960-10-1313 October 1960, completed 1816	Bergamo, Teatro Donizetti
Olimpiade			Metastasio's L'Olimpiade	1817-00-00incomplete, composed 1817[3]
IraL'ira di Achille		1 act		1817-00-00incomplete, composed 1817[4]
Enrico di Borgogna	melodramma	2 acts	Merelli01Bartolomeo Merelli	1818-11-1414 November 1818	Venice, Teatro San Luca
FolliaUna follia	farsa	1 act	Merelli02Bartolomeo Merelli	1818-12-1717 December 1818, lost	Venice, Teatro San Luca
PiccioliI piccioli virtuosi ambulanti	opera buffa	1 act		1819-00-001819[5]		pasticcio performed by Mayr's students
FalegnameIl falegname di Livonia, o Pietro il grande, czar delle Russie	opera buffa	2 acts	BevilacquaGherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini	1819-12-2626 December 1819	Venice, Teatro San Samuele
NozzeLe nozze in villa	opera buffa	2 acts	Merelli03Bartolomeo Merelli	1820-12-00carnival 1820–1821, completed 1819	Mantua, Teatro Vecchio
Zoraida di Granata	melodramma heroico	2 acts	Merelli04Bartolomeo Merelli; revised for Rome 1824 by Jacopo Ferretti[6]	1822-01-2828 January 1822	Rome, Teatro Argentina, rev. 7 January 1824 at the same theatre
ZingaraLa zingara	dramma	2 acts	Tottola01Andrea Leone Tottola	1822-05-1212 May 1822	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
LetteraLa lettera anonima	dramma per musica	1 act	GenoinoGiulio Genoino	1822-06-2929 June 1822	Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Chiara e Serafina, o Il pirata	melodramma semiserio	2 acts	Romani01Felice Romani, after Pixérécourt's La cisterne	1822-10-2626 October 1822	Milan, La Scala
Alfredo il grande	dramma per musica	2 acts	Tottola02Andrea Leone Tottola	1823-07-022 July 1823	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
FortunatoIl fortunato inganno	dramma giocoso	2 acts	Tottola03Andrea Leone Tottola	1823-09-033 September 1823	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
AjoL'ajo nell'imbarazzo [see also Don Gregorio]	melodramma giocoso	2 acts	Ferretti01Jacopo Ferretti, after Giovanni Giraud's comedy	1824-02-044 February 1824	Rome, Teatro Valle
Emilia di Liverpool [see also L'eremitaggio di Liverpool]	dramma semiserio	2 acts	anonymous, after S. Scatizzi's Emilia de Laverpaut	1824-07-2828 July 1824	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Alahor in Granata	dramma	2 acts	AM. A.	1826-01-077 January 1826	Palermo, Teatro Carolino
Don Gregorio [rev of L'ajo nell'imbarazzo]	melodramma giocoso	2 acts	Ferretti02Jacopo Ferretti	1826-06-1111 June 1826	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Elvida	dramma	1 act	Giovanni F. Schmidt[7]	1826-07-066 July 1826	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Gabriella di Vergy	tragedia lirica	3 acts	Tottola04Andrea Leone Tottola, after Pierre de Belloy	1869-11-2929 November 1869, completed 1826	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Olivo e Pasquale	melodramma	2 acts	Ferretti03Jacopo Ferretti, after Simeone Antonio Sografi	1827-01-077 January 1827	Rome, Teatro Valle
Otto mesi in due ore, ossia Gli esiliati in Siberia	opera romantica	3 acts	Gilardoni01Domenico Gilardoni, after Pixérécourt's La fille de l'exilé	1827-05-1313 May 1827	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
BorgomastroIl borgomastro di Saardam	melodramma giocoso	2 acts	Gilardoni02Domenico Gilardoni, after Mélesville, Jean-Toussaint Merle and Eugène Cantiran de Boirie	1827-08-1919 August 1827	Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Convenienze teatraliLe convenienze teatrali [see also Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali]	farsa	1 act	Donizetti01Gaetano Donizetti, after Simeone Antonio Sografi	1827-11-2121 November 1827	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
EsuleL'esule di Roma, ossia Il proscritto	melodramma eroico	2 acts	Gilardoni03Domenico Gilardoni, after Luigi Marchionni's Il proscritto romano	1828-01-011 January 1828	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
EremitaggioL'eremitaggio di Liverpool [rev of Emilia di Liverpool][8]	melodramma semiserio[9]	2 acts	CheccheriniGiuseppe Checcherini, after Scatizzi	1828-03-088 March 1828	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Alina, regina di Golconda	melodramma	2 acts	Romani02Felice Romani, after Sedaine's libretto for Monsigny's opera-ballet Aline, reine de Golconde[10]	1828-05-1212 May 1828	Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice
Gianni di Calais	melodramma semiserio	3 acts	Gilardoni04Domenico Gilardoni, after a novel by Arlincourt[11]	1828-08-022 August 1828	Naples, Teatro del Fondo
PariaIl paria	melodramma	2 acts	Gilardoni05Domenico Gilardoni, after Delavigne	1829-01-1212 January 1829	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
GiovediIl giovedì grasso, o Il nuovo Pourceaugnac	farsa[12]	1 act	Gilardoni06Domenico Gilardoni	1829-02-2626 February 1829	Naples, Teatro del Fondo
CastelloElisabetta al castello di Kenilworth	melodramma	3 acts	Tottola05Andrea Leone Tottola, after Scribe's Leicester and Hugo's Amy Robsart	1829-07-066 July 1829	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Alina, regina di Golconda [rev]	melodramma	2 acts	Romani03Felice Romani, after Sedaine	1829-10-1010 October 1829	Rome, Teatro Valle[10]
PazziI pazzi per progetto	farsa[13]	1 act	Gilardoni07Domenico Gilardoni	1830-02-066 February 1830	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
DiluvioIl diluvio universale	azione tragica-sacra	3 acts	Gilardoni08Domenico Gilardoni, after Byron's Heaven and Earth and Francesco Ringhieri's tragedy Il diluvio	1830-03-066 March 1830[14]	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Imelda de' Lambertazzi	melodramma tragico	2 acts	Tottola06Andrea Leone Tottola	1830-09-055 September 1830	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Anna Bolena	tragedia lirica	2 acts	Romani04Felice Romani, after Pindemonte's tragedy Enrico VIII, ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena[15]	1830-12-2626 December 1830	Milan, Teatro Carcano
Gianni di Parigi	melodramma comico[16]	2 acts	Romani05Felice Romani, after Saint-Just's libretto for Boieldieu's opéra-comique Jean de Paris	1831-04-9910 September 1839, composed c. 1828–1831[17]	Milan, La Scala
Convenienze edLe convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali [rev of Le convenienze teatrali]	dramma giocoso	2 acts	Donizetti01bDonizetti, after Sografi	1831-04-2020 April 1831	Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana
Francesca di Foix	melodramma	1 act	Gilardoni09Domenico 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 1831	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
RomanzieraLa romanziera e l'uomo nero (or La romanzesca e l'uomo nero)	farsa	1 act	Gilardoni10Domenico Gilardoni	1831-06-1818 June 1831	Naples, Teatro del Fondo (arias and ensembles survive but spoken dialogue is lost)
Fausta	melodramma	2 acts	Gilardoni11Domenico Gilardoni and Donizetti	1832-01-1212 January 1832	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Ugo, conte di Parigi	tragedia lirica	4 acts	Romani06Felice Romani, after Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis: Blanche d'Aquitaine	1832-03-1313 March 1832	Milan, La Scala
ElisirL'elisir d'amore	melodramma giocoso	2 acts	Romani07Felice Romani, after Scribe's libretto for Auber's Le philtre	1832-05-1212 May 1832	Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana
Sancia di Castiglia	tragedia lirica	2 acts	SalatinoPietro Salatino	1832-11-044 November 1832	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
FuriosoIl furioso all'isola di San Domingo	melodramma	2 acts	Ferretti04Jacopo Ferretti, after an anonymous play on Cervantes' Don Quixote	1833-01-022 January 1833	Rome, Teatro Valle
Otto mesi in due ore [rev]	opera romantica	3 acts	AlcozerAntonio Alcozer after Domenico Gilardoni	1833-01-991833	Livorno
Parisina	melodramma	3 acts	Romani08Felice Romani, after Byron	1833-03-1717 March 1833	Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Torquato Tasso	melodramma	3 acts	Ferretti05Jacopo Ferretti	1833-09-099 September 1833	Rome, Teatro Valle
Lucrezia0Lucrezia Borgia	melodramma	2.1prologue & 2 acts	Romani09Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo	1833-12-2626 December 1833	Milan, La Scala
DiluvioIl diluvio universale [rev]	azione tragico-sacra	3 acts	Gilardoni08banonymous, after Domenico Gilardoni	1834-01-1717 January 1834	Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice
Rosmonda d'Inghilterra	melodramma serio	2 acts	Romani10Felice Romani	1834-02-2727 February 1834	Florence, Teatro della Pergola
MariaMaria Stuarda	tragedia lirica	2 acts (or 3)	BardariGiuseppe Bardari, after Andrea Maffei's translation of Schiller[19]	1835-12-3030 December 1835 (in 3 acts), completed August 1834	Milan, La Scala
BuondelmonteBuondelmonte [rev of Maria Stuarda]	tragedia lirica	2 acts	SalatinoPietro Salatino	1834-10-1818 October 1834	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Gemma di Vergy	tragedia lirica	2 acts	Bidera01Giovanni Emanuele Bidera, after the play Charles VII by Dumas[20]	1834-12-2626 December 1834	Milan, La Scala
Marino Faliero	tragedia lirica	3 acts	Bidera02Giovanni 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 1835	Paris, Théâtre-Italien
Lucia di Lammermoor [see also Lucie de Lammermoor]	dramma tragico	3 acts	Cammarano01Salvadore Cammarano, after Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor	1835-09-2626 September 1835	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Belisario	tragedia lirica	3 acts	Cammarano02Salvadore Cammarano, after Eduard von Schenk as translated by Luigi Marchionni	1836-02-044 February 1836	Venice, La Fenice
CampanelloIl campanello di notte	melodramma giocoso	1 act	Donizetti02Donizetti, after the vaudeville La sonnette de nuit by Léon Levy Brunswick (Léon Lhérie), Mathieu-Barthélmy Troin, and Victor Lhérie	1836-06-011 June 1836	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Betly0Betly, o La capanna svizzera	dramma giocoso	1 act	Donizetti03Donizetti, after Scribe's and Mélesville's libretto for Adam's Le chalet	1836-08-2121 August 1836	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
assedioL'assedio di Calais	dramma lirico	3 acts	Cammarano03Salvadore Cammarano, after Pierre de Belloy	1836-11-1919 November 1836	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Pia0Pia de' Tolomei	tragedia lirica	2 acts	Cammarano04aSalvadore Cammarano, after Bartolomeo Sestini, and Dante's La commedia	1837-02-1818 February 1837	Venice, Teatro Apollo
Pia1Pia de' Tolomei [rev]	tragedia lirica	2 acts	Cammarano04bSalvadore Cammarano, after Bartolomeo Sestini, and Dante's La commedia	1837-07-3131 July 1837	Sinigaglia
Betly1Betly [rev]	dramma giocoso	1 act	Donizetti03bDonizetti	1837-09-2929 September 1837	Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Roberto Devereux	tragedia lirica	3 acts	Cammarano04Salvadore Cammarano, after François Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre	1837-10-2828 October 1837	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Maria de Rudenz	dramma tragico	3 acts	Cammarano05Salvadore Cammarano, after the play La nonne sanglante by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, Cuvelier and Maillan	1838-01-3030 January 1838	Venice, La Fenice
Gabriella di Vergy [rev]	tragedia lirica	2 acts	Tottola04bAndrea Leone Tottola, after Pierre de Belloy	1978-08-00August 1978 recording, composed 1838	London
Poliuto1Poliuto [see also Les Martyrs]	tragedia lirica	3 acts	Cammarano06Salvadore Cammarano, after Pierre Corneille	1838-01-9130 November 1848, completed July 1838	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Pia2Pia de' Tolomei [rev 2]	tragedia lirica	2 acts	Cammarano04canonymous revision of Cammarano's libretto	1838-05-00May 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 libretto	1839-08-066 August 1839	Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance
Duc1Le duc d'Albe [see also Il duca d'Alba]	grand opéra	4 acts	DuveyrierCharles Duveyrier and Eugène Scribe	1839-10-00incomplete, composed 1839[23]
AngeL'ange de Nisida [see also La favorite]	opera semiseria	4 parts	Royer02Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz	1839-12-27unperformed, completed 27 December 1839[24]
Lucrezia1Lucrezia Borgia [rev]	dramma per musica	2.1prologue & 2 acts	Romani11Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo	1840-01-1111 January 1840	Milan, La Scala
Poliuto2Les Martyrs [rev of Poliuto, in French]	grand opéra	4 acts	Scribe01Eugène Scribe's revision and expansion of Cammarano's original libretto	1840-04-1010 April 1840	Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier
FilleLa fille du régiment	opéra comique	2 acts	BayardJean-François-Alfred Bayard and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges	1840-02-1111 February 1840	Paris, Opéra-Comique
Lucrezia2Lucrezia Borgia [rev 2]	dramma per musica	2.1prologue & 2 acts	Romani12Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo	1840-10-3131 October 1840	Paris, Théâtre-Italien
FavoriteLa favorite [rev of L'ange de Nisida]	grand opéra	4 acts	Royer03Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz and Eugène Scribe	1840-12-022 December 1840	Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier
Adelia	melodramma serio	3 acts	Romani13Felice Romani (Acts 1 & 2) and Girolamo Marini (Act 3), after an anonymous French play[25]	1841-02-1111 February 1841	Rome, Teatro Apollo
Rita (Deux hommes et une femme)	opéra-comique	1 act	VaezGustave Vaëz	1860-05-077 May 1860, completed 1841	Paris, Opéra-Comique
Maria Padilla	melodramma	3 acts	Rossi01Gaetano Rossi and Donizetti, after François Ancelot	1841-12-2626 December 1841	Milan, La Scala
Linda di Chamounix	melodramma semiserio	3 acts	Rossi02aGaetano Rossi	1842-05-1919 May 1842	Vienna, Kärntnertortheater
Linda di Chamounix [rev]	melodramma semiserio	3 acts	Rossi02bGaetano Rossi	1842-11-1717 November 1842	Paris, Théâtre-Italien
Caterina Cornaro	tragedia lirica	2 acts	SaccheroGiacomo Sacchèro, after Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges' libretto for Halévy's La reine de Chypre	1844-01-1818 January 1844	Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Don Pasquale	dramma buffo	3 acts	RuffiniGiovanni Ruffini and Donizetti, after Angelo Anelli's Ser Marcantio; published with credit to "M.A."[26]	1843-01-033 January 1843	Paris, Théâtre-Italien
Maria di Rohan	melodramma tragico	3 acts	Cammarano07Salvadore Cammarano, after Lockroy (J. P. Simon) and Badon's Un duel sous le Cardinal de Richelieu	1843-06-055 June 1843	Vienna, Kärntnertortheater
Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal	grand opéra	5 acts	Scribe02Eugène Scribe, after the play by Paul Foucher	1843-11-1313 November 1843	Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier
Dom Sebastian von Portugal [rev of Dom Sébastien]	große Oper[27]	5 acts	HerzLeo Herz's translation of Scribe's libretto	1845-02-066 February 1845	Vienna, Kärntnertortheater
Duc2Il duca d'Alba [completion by Matteo Salvi of original Le duc d'Albe]	opera	4 acts[28]	ZanardiniAngelo Zanardini's revision of the original libretto by Duveyrier and Scribe	1882-03-2222 March 1882	Rome, Teatro Apollo

References

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. 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. Ashbrook & Hibberd 2001, p. 236.
21. Osborne 1994, p. 257.
22. 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.

Sources

• Allitt, John Stewart (1991), Donizetti: in the light of Romanticism and the teaching of Johann Simon Mayr, Shaftesbury: Element Books, Ltd (UK); Rockport, MA: Element, Inc.(USA)
• Ashbrook, William (1982). Donizetti and His Operas. Cambridge University Press., ISBN 0-521-23526-X.
• Ashbrook, William (1992). "Donizetti, (Domenico) Gaetano (Maria): work-list" in Sadie 1992, vol. 1, pp. 1215–1218.
• Ashbrook, William; Hibberd, Sarah (2001). "Gaetano Donizetti", pp. 224–247 in The New Penguin Opera Guide, edited by Amanda Holden. New York: Penguin Putnam. ISBN 0-14-029312-4.
• Osborne, Charles (1994). The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. ISBN 0-931340-71-3.
• Sadie, Stanley, editor (1992). The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (4 volumes). London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-228-9.
• Sadie, Stanley, editor; John Tyrell; executive editor (2001). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-239-5 (hardcover). OCLC 419285866 (eBook).
• Smart, Mary Ann; Budden, Julian (2001). "Donizetti, (Domenico) Gaetano (Maria)" in Sadie 2001.
• Steiner-Isenmann, Robert (1982). Gaetano Donizetti: sein Leben und seine Opern. Berne: Hallwag. ISBN 9783444102721.
• Weinstock, Herbert (1963). Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Pantheon Books. OCLC 601625.

External links

• List of Donizetti operas at opera.stanford.edu
• Free scores by Gaetano Donizetti at the International Music Score Library Project