List of operas by Meyerbeer

The following is a list of operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864).

List

Title	Genre	Language	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Première	Theatre	Notes
AdmiralDer Admiral, oder der verlorne Prozess	comic opera	German			1811Written 1811, never performed[1]
Jephtas Gelübde	Ernsthafte Oper (Singspiel)[2]	German	3 acts	SchreiberAloys Schreiber, based on the biblical story of Jephthah	1812-12-2323 December 1812	Hoftheater, Munich
Wirth und Gast, oder Aus Scherz Ernst	Lustspiel mit Gesang	German	2 acts	Wollbrück J. S. Wollbrück	1813-01-066 January 1813	Stuttgart	Produced in Vienna in 1814 as Alimelek, oder Die beiden Kalifen
BrandenburgerDas Brandenburger Tor	Singspiel	German	1 act	Veith S. Veith	1814-00-001814	Berlin
Romilda e Costanza	melodramma semiserio[3]	Italian		RossiGaetano Rossi	1817-07-1919 July 1817	Padua
Semiramide riconosciuta	dramma per musica[4]	Italian	2 acts	RossiGaetano Rossi, after Metastasio[5]	1819-02-033 February 1819[6]	Teatro Regio, Turin
Emma di Resburgo	melodramma eroico[7]	Italian		RossiGaetano Rossi	1819-06-2626 June 1819	Teatro San Benedetto, Venice
Margherita d'Anjou	melodramma semiserio	Italian	2 acts	RomaniFelice Romani after René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt	1820-11-1414 November 1820	La Scala, Milan	Revised 1826 for Paris.
AlmanzoreL'Almanzore		Italian		RossiGaetano Rossi	1821-00-00Unperformed		Probably composed 1820–21; intended for the Teatro Argentino in Rome but never performed there. Believed to have been unfinished; it is also possible that its music was used in L'esule di Granata
esuleL'esule di Granata	melodramma	Italian	2 acts	RomaniFelice Romani	1822-03-1212 March 1822	La Scala, Milan
crociatoIl crociato in Egitto	melodramma	Italian	2 acts	RossiGaetano Rossi	1824-03-077 March 1824	La Fenice, Venice	Frequently revised by Meyerbeer
Ines de Castro	melodramma tragico[8]	Italian		CammaranoSalvatore Cammarano[9]	1825 drafts from 1825		Commissioned by Teatro San Carlo, Naples, for 1826, but never completed.[10][11]
diableRobert le diable	grand opera	French	5 acts	ScribeEugène Scribe and Casimir Delavigne	1831-11-2121 November 1831	Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier
HuguenotsLes Huguenots	grand opera	French	5 acts	ScribeEugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps	1836-02-2929 February 1836	Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier	Sometimes staged during the 19th century under other titles such as The Guelfs and the Ghibellines or The Anglicans and the Puritans (see the article on the opera)
FeldlagerEin Feldlager in Schlesien	Singspiel	German	3 acts	RellstabLudwig Rellstab after Eugène Scribe	1844-12-077 December 1844	Hofoper, Berlin	Revised as Vielka, Vienna, 18 February 1847
propheteLe prophète	grand opera	French	5 acts	ScribeEugène Scribe	1849-04-1616 April 1849	Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier
etoileL'étoile du nord	opéra comique	French	3 acts	ScribeEugène Scribe	1854-02-1616 February 1854	Opéra-Comique, Paris	Partly based on the earlier Feldlager in Schlesien; revised in Italian, London, Covent Garden, 19 July 1855
pardonLe pardon de Ploërmel (or Dinorah)	opéra comique	French	3 acts	BarbierJules Barbier and Michel Carré	1859-04-044 April 1859	Opéra-Comique, Paris	Revised in Italian as Dinorah, Covent Garden, London, 26 July 1859
AfricaineL'Africaine	grand opera	French	5 acts	ScribeEugène Scribe	1865-04-2828 April 1865	Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier	Performed posthumously in an edition by François-Joseph Fétis.

Notes and sources

Giacomo Meyerbeer surrounded by characters from his most famous operas. From left to right: Nélusko and Sélika (L'Africaine); Alice, Robert and Bertram (Robert le diable); Fidès, Jean de Leyden and the three anabaptistes (Le prophète); Valentine, Raoul and Marcel (Les Huguenots)

Notes

1. Becker (1980), 246
2. Letellier, pp. 24-25.
3. Letellier, 50.
4. Letellier, 57.
5. Huebner, 369.
6. MusicAndHistory.com - 1819. Accessed 5 April 2015
7. Letellier, 61.
8. Meyerbeer (1960-2006), II 577
9. Meyerbeer (1960-2006), II 694
10. Becker (1989), 39
11. Meyerbeer (1960-2006), II 577

Sources

• Becker, Heinz (1980). "Meyerbeer [Meyer Beer], Giacomo [Jakob Liebmann]". In Sadie, Stanley, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 12, 246–256. London: Macmillan
• Becker, Heinz and Gudrun, tr. Mark Violette (1989). Giacomo Meyerbeer, a Life in Letters. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 0-7470-0230-4.
• Huebner, Steven (1992). "Meyerbeer, Giacomo". In Sadie, Stanley, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4: 366–371. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-228-9.
• Letellier, Robert Ignatius (2006). The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Cranbury: Associated University Presses. ISBN 978-0-8386-4093-7
• Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1960-2006). Briefwechsel und Tagebücher (8 vols.). Berlin and New York: de Gruyter.