List of operas by Salieri

This is a list of the operas written by the Italian composer Antonio Salieri (1750–1825).

List

Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Premiere date	Place, theatre
vestaleLa Vestale	dramma per musica	3 acts	unknownUnknown	1769-03-99Unperformed, a culminating study for his teacher Gassmann	Vienna
donneLe donne letterate	commedia per musica	3 acts	BoccheriniGiovanni Gastone Boccherini, after Molière's Les femmes savantes	1770-03-99Carnival 1770	Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater)
amoreL'amore innocente	pastorale	2 acts	BoccheriniGiovanni Gastone Boccherini	1770-99-991770	Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater)
Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace	divertimento teatrale	2 acts	BoccheriniGiovanni Gastone Boccherini, after Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote	1771-03-99Carnival 1771	Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater)
modaLa moda, ossia scompigli domestici	pasticcio	2 acts	CiprettiPietro Cipretti	1771-05-991771	Vienna
Armida	dramma per musica	3 acts	ColtelliniMarco Coltellini, after Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata	1771-06-022 June 1771	Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater)
fieraLa fiera di Venezia	commedia per musica	3 acts	BoccheriniGiovanni Gastone Boccherini	1772-01-2929 January 1772	Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater)
baroneIl barone di Rocca antica	dramma giocoso	2 acts	PetroselliniGiuseppe Petrosellini	1772-05-1212 May 1772	Vienna, Burgtheater (or Kärtnertortheater)
secchiaLa secchia rapita	dramma eroicomico	3 acts	BoccheriniGiovanni Gastone Boccherini, after Alessandro Tassoni's play of the same name	1772-10-2121 October 1772	Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
locandieraLa locandiera	dramma giocoso	3 acts	PoggiDomenico Poggi, after Carlo Goldoni's play of the same name	1773-06-088 June 1773	Vienna, Burgtheater[1]
calamitaLa calamità de' cuori	dramma giocoso	3 acts	GoldoniCarlo Goldoni	1774-10-1111 October 1774	Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
fintaLa finta scema	commedia per musica	2 acts	de GamerraGiovanni de Gamerra	1775-09-099 September 1775	Vienna, Burgtheater
Daliso e Delmita	azione pastorale	3 acts	de GamerraGiovanni de Gamerra	1776-07-2929 July 1776	Vienna, Burgtheater
Europa riconosciuta	dramma per musica	2 acts	VeraziMattia Verazi	1778-08-033 August 1778	Milan, Teatro alla Scala (inauguration)
scuolaLa scuola de' gelosi	dramma giocoso	2 acts	MazzolaCaterino Mazzolà	1779-03-91Carnival 1779	Venice, San Moisè
partenzaLa partenza inaspettate	intermezzo	2 parts	PetroselliniGiuseppe Petrosellini	1779-03-92Carnival 1779	Rome, Teatro Valle
talismanoIl talismano (Acts 2 and 3 by Giacomo Rust)	dramma giocoso	3 acts	GoldoniCarlo Goldoni; revised by Lorenzo Da Ponte	1779-08-2121 August 1779; Revised: 10 September 1788	Milan, Teatro Cannobiana; revised: Vienna, Burgtheater
damaLa dama pastorella	intermezzo	2 parts	PetroselliniGiuseppe Petrosellini	1780-00-001780	Rome, Teatro Valle
RauchfangkehrerDer Rauchfangkehrer, oder Die unentbehrlichen Verräther ihrer Herrschaften aus Eigennutz	musikalisches Lustspiel	3 acts	AuenbruggerLeopold von Auenbrugger	1781-04-3030 April 1781	Vienna, Burgtheater
Semiramide	dramma per musica	3 acts	Metastasio	1782-03-00Carnival 1782	Munich, Residenz Theatre
DanaidesLes Danaïdes	tragédie lyrique	5 acts	Du RoulletMarius François Louis Gaud Du Roullet and Louis Théodore Baron de Tschudi, after Raniero de Calzabigi	1784-04-2626 April 1784	Paris, Opéra
riccoIl ricco d'un giorno	dramma giocoso	3 acts	Da PonteLorenzo Da Ponte	1784-12-066 December 1784	Vienna, Burgtheater
grottaLa grotta di Trofonio	opera comica	2 acts	CastiGiovanni Battista Casti	1785-10-1212 October 1785	Vienna, Burgtheater
Prima la musica e poi le parole	divertimento teatrale	1 act	CastiGiovanni Battista Casti	1786-02-077 February 1786	Vienna, Schloss Schönbrunn Orangerie
HoracesLes Horaces	tragédie lyrique	3 acts	GuillardNicholas-François Guillard, after Pierre Corneille	1786-12-022 December 1786	Versailles
Tarare	opéra	5.1prologue and 5 acts	BeaumarchaisPierre Beaumarchais	1787-06-088 June 1787	Paris, Opéra
Axur, re d'Ormus	dramma tragicomico	5 acts	Da PonteLorenzo Da Ponte, after Pierre Beaumarchais' Tarare	1788-01-088 January 1788	Vienna, Burgtheater
Cublai gran kan de' Tartari	dramma eroicomico	2 acts	CastiGiovanni Battista Casti	1788-99-99composed 1788; first performed 1998	Würzburg, Mainfrankentheater
pastorIl pastor fido	dramma tragicomico	4 acts	Da PonteLorenzo Da Ponte, after Battista Guarini's play of the same name	1789-02-1111 February 1789	Vienna, Burgtheater
cifraLa cifra	dramma giocoso	2 acts	Da PonteLorenzo Da Ponte, after Giuseppe Petrosellini's La dama pastorella	1789-12-1111 December 1789	Vienna, Burgtheater
Catilina	dramma eroicomico	2 acts	CastiGiovanni Battista Casti	1792-00-00composed 1792; first performed 1994	Staatstheater Darmstadt
mondoIl mondo alla rovescia	dramma giocoso	2 acts	MazzolaCaterino Mazzolà, after his libretto L'isola capricciosa	1795-01-1313 January 1795	Vienna, Burgtheater
Eraclito e Democrito	commedia per musica	2 acts	de GamerraGiovanni de Gamerra	1795-08-1313 August 1795	Vienna, Burgtheater
Palmira, regina di Persia	dramma eroicomico	2 acts	de GamerraGiovanni de Gamerra, after Voltaire's La princesse de Babylone	1795-10-1414 October 1795	Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
moroIl moro	commedia per musica	2 acts	de GamerraGiovanni de Gamerra	1796-08-077 August 1796	Vienna, Burgtheater
tre filosofiI tre filosofi		2 acts	de GamerraGiovanni de Gamerra	1797-00-00composed 1797, but unperformed
Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle	dramma giocoso	2 acts	DefranceschiCarlo Propero Defranceschi, after William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor	1799-01-033 January 1799	Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
Cesare in Farmacusa	dramma eroicomico	2 acts	DefranceschiCarlo Propero Defranceschi	1800-06-022 June 1800	Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
AngiolinaL'Angiolina ossia Il matrimonio per Susurro	opera buffa	2 acts	DefranceschiCarlo Propero Defranceschi, after Ben Jonson's Epicœne	1800-10-2222 October 1800	Vienna, Kärtnertortheater
Annibale in Capua	dramma per musica	3 acts	SografiAntonio Simone Sografi	1801-04-00April 1801	Trieste, Teatro Nuovo
bellaLa bella selvaggia	opera buffa	2 acts	BertatiGiovanni Bertati	1802-00-00composed 1802, but unperformed
NegerDie Neger	Singspiel	2 acts	TreitschkeGeorg Friedrich Treitschke	1804-11-1010 November 1804	Vienna, Theater an der Wien

References

Notes

1. La locandiera, Corago, University of Bologna

Sources

• Rice, John A. (1992), "Salieri, Antonio" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7