List of operas by Sarti
Encyclopedia
This is a list of the complete operas of the Italian composer Giuseppe Sarti
(1729–1802).
Giuseppe Sarti
Giuseppe Sarti was an Italian opera composer.-Biography:He was born at Faenza. His date of birth is not known, but he was baptised on 1 December 1729. Some earlier sources say he was born on 28 December, but his baptism certificate proves the later date impossible...
(1729–1802).
List
| Title | |Genre | |Subdivisions | |Libretto | |Première date | |Place, theatre |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pompeo in Armenia | dramma per musica Dramma per musica Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries... |
3 acts | B Vitturi | Carnival 1752 | Faenza Faenza Faenza is an Italian city and comune, in the province of Ravenna, Emilia-Romagna, situated 50 km southeast of Bologna.Faenza is noted for its manufacture of majolica ware glazed earthenware pottery, known from the name of the town as "faience".... |
| Il re pastore | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:... |
Carnival 1753 | Pesaro Pesaro Pesaro is a town and comune in the Italian region of the Marche, capital of the Pesaro e Urbino province, on the Adriatic. According to the 2007 census, its population was 92,206.... |
| Vologeso | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno Apostolo Zeno was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.-Early life:Apostolo Zeno was born of Cretan Greek descent in Venice in 1669... 's Lucio Vero |
Carnival 1754 | Copenhagen Copenhagen Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region... , Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Antigono | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 1754 | |
| Ciro riconosciuto | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 1754 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Demofoonte | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival 1755 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Sesostri | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Pietro Pariati | 1755 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Arianna e Teseo | dramma per musica | Pietro Pariati | Carnival 1756 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv | |
| Anagilda | dramma per musica | G Gigli | 1758 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv | |
| Achille in Sciro | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 1759 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Armida abbandonata | dramma per musica | L de Villati | 1759 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv | |
| Artaserse | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival 1760 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Astrea placata | festa teatrale Festa teatrale The term festa teatrale refers to a genre of drama, and of opera in particular. The genre cannot be rigidly defined, and in any case feste teatrali tend to be split into two different sets: feste teatrali divided by acts are operas, while works in this genre performed without division, or merely... |
1 act | Metastasio | 17 October 1760 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Andromaca | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno | 1760 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Filindo | pastorale eroica | 3 acts | P d'Averara | 1760 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Issipile | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Spring 1761 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Nitteti | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 12 October 1761 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Alessandro nell'Indie | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Autumn 1761 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| La figlia recuperata | dramma pastorale | P A Timido | February 1762 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv | |
| Semiramide | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Autumn 1762 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Didone abbandonata Didone abbandonata (Sarti) Didone abbandonata is an opera, or dramma per musica, by Giuseppe Sarti, set to a libretto by the renowned poet Metastasio. The opera was first performed in the winter of 1762 in Copenhagen, and was composed especially for the Danish court of the time... |
dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 1762 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Narciso | dramma pastorale | 3 acts | Apostolo Zeno | Carnival 1763 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Cesare in Egitto | dramma per musica | 3 acts | G F Bussani | autumn 1763 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Il naufragio di Cipro | dramma pastorale | 3 acts | P A Ziani | January or spring 1764 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Il gran Tamerlano | tragedia per musica | 3 acts | A Piovene | early 1764 | Copenhagen, Theatre on Kongens Nytorv |
| Ipermestra | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival 1766 | Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half... , Teatro Argentina Teatro Argentina The Teatro Argentina is an opera house and theatre located in the Largo di Torre Argentina, a square in Rome, Italy. It is one of the oldest theatres in Rome, and was inaugurated on January 31, 1732 with Berenice by Domenico Sarro.... |
| La giardiniera brillante | intermezzo Intermezzo In music, an intermezzo , in the most general sense, is a composition which fits between other musical or dramatic entities, such as acts of a play or movements of a larger musical work... |
2 acts | 1768 | Rome, Teatro Valle Teatro Valle The Teatro Valle is a theatre and former opera house in Rome, Italy.Commissioned by the Capranica family, the architect Tommaso Morelli designed the theatre which was built in 1726. It was inaugurated with the staging of the tragedy Matilde by Simon Falconio Pratoli... |
|
| L'asile de l'amour | dramatic cantata | Deschamps, after Metastasio | 22 July 1769 | Copenhagen, Christiansborg Christiansborg Palace Christiansborg Palace, , on the islet of Slotsholmen in central Copenhagen, is the seat of the Folketing , the Danish Prime Minister's Office and the Danish Supreme Court... court |
|
| La double méprise, ou Carlile et Fany | comédie mêlée d'ariettes Comédie mêlée d'ariettes Comédie mêlée d'ariettes is a form of French opéra comique that developed in the mid 18th century following the Querelle des Bouffons dispute over the respective merits of the French and Italian styles, between serious drama and comedy in opera.The best-known ones are Christoph Willibald Gluck's... |
1 act | Deschamps | 22 July 1769 | Copenhagen, Christiansborg court |
| Soliman den Anden | syngespil Singspiel A Singspiel is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera... |
3 acts | CD Biehl, after Charles Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart Charles Simon Favart was a French dramatist.Born in Paris, the son of a pastry-cook, he was educated at the college of Louis-le-Grand, and after his father's death he carried on the business for a time... |
8 October 1770 | Copenhagen, Kongelige Teater |
| Le bal | opéra comique Opéra comique Opéra comique is a genre of French opera that contains spoken dialogue and arias. It emerged out of the popular opéra comiques en vaudevilles of the Fair Theatres of St Germain and St Laurent , which combined existing popular tunes with spoken sections... |
Deschamps | 1770 | Copenhagen, Christiansborg court | |
| Demofoonte (revised version) | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 30 January 1771 | Copenhagen, Kongelige Teater |
| The Succession to the Throne in Sidon (Tronfølgen i Sidon) | lyrisk tragi-comedia (syngespil) | 2 acts | N K Bredal, after Metastasio's Il re pastore | 4 April 1771 | Copenhagen, Kongelige Teater |
| La clemenza di Tito | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | June 1771 | Padua Padua Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having... , Obizzi |
| Il re pastore | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 1771 | Copenhagen, Kongelige Teater |
| Il tempio d'eternità | festa teatrale | 1 act | Metastasio | 1771 | Copenhagen, Kongelige Teater |
| Deucalion og Pyrrha | syngespil | 1 act | CA Thielo and N K Bredal, after G F Pouillain de Saint Foix | 19 March 1772 | Copenhagen, Kongelige Teater |
| Aglae, or The Column (Aglae, eller Støtten) |
syngespil | 1 act | C Fasting and A G Carstens, after L Poinsinet de Sivry | 16 February 1774 | Copenhagen, Christiansborg court |
| Love Letters (Kierlighedsbrevene) | syngespil | 3 acts | Biehl, after Boissy | 22 March 1775 | Copenhagen, Christiansborg court |
| Farnace | dramma per musica | 3 acts | A M Lucchini | 1776 | Venice Venice Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region... , Teatro San Samuele Teatro San Samuele Teatro San Samuele was an opera house and theatre located at the Rio del Duca, between Campo San Samuele and Campo Santo Stefano, in Venice. One of several important theatres built in that city by the Grimani family, the theatre opened in 1656 and operated continuously until a fire destroyed the... |
| Le gelosie villane Le gelosie villane Le gelosie villane is a dramma giocoso in three acts by Giuseppe Sarti. The libretto was by Tommaso Grandi. It was also known as Il feudatorio, Il feudatorio burlato and I contadini bizzari. It was also set by Pasquale Anfossi.-Performance history:It was first performed at the Teatro San Samuele... |
dramma giocoso Dramma giocoso Dramma giocoso is the name of a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of "dramma giocoso per musica" and is essentially a description of the text rather than the opera as a whole... |
3 acts | T Grandi | 1776 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele |
| Iphigenia | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Carnival 1777 | Rome, Teatro Argentina | |
| Medonte, re di Epiro Medonte, re di Epiro Medonte, re di Epiro is an opera seria in three acts by Giuseppe Sarti. The libretto was by Giovanni de Gamerra.-Performance history:It was first performed at the Teatro della Pergola in Florence on 8 September 1777... |
dramma per musica | Giovanni de Gamerra Giovanni de Gamerra Giovanni de Gamerra was a cleric, a playwright, and a poet. He is best known as a prolific librettist.... |
8 September 1777 | Florence Florence Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area.... , Teatro della Pergola Teatro della Pergola The Teatro della Pergola is a historic opera house in Florence, Italy. It is located in the centre of the city on the Via della Pergola, from which the theatre takes its name... |
|
| Il militare bizzarro | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | T Grandi | 27 December 1777 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele |
| Scipione | dramma per musica | E Giunti | autumn 1778 | Mestre Mestre Mestre is a city part of the comune of Venice, in Veneto, northern Italy.The city is connected to Venice by a large rail and road bridge, called Ponte della Libertà .... , Casa Balbi |
|
| I contrattempi | dramma giocoso | N Porta | November 1778 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele | |
| Adriano in Siria | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 26 December 1778 | Rome, Teatro Argentina |
| Olimpiade | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 1778 | Florence |
| L'ambizione delusa | intermezzo | 2 acts | February 1779 | Rome, Capranica | |
| Achille in Sciro | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Autumn 1779 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola |
| Mitridate a Sinope | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Autumn 1779 | Florence, Palla a Corda | |
| Siroe | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 26 December 1779 | Turin Turin Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat... , Teatro Regio |
| Giulio Sabino Giulio Sabino Giulio Sabino is a dramma per musica in three acts by Giuseppe Sarti. The libretto was by Pietro Giovannini.... |
dramma per musica | 3 acts | P Giovannini's Epponima | 1781 | Venice, San Benedetto |
| Demofoonte (third version) | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival 1782 | Rome, Argentina |
| Alessandro e Timoteo | dramma per musica | 3 acts | G della Torre di Rezzonico | 6 April 1782 | Parma Parma Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world.... , court |
| Didone abbandonata Didone abbandonata (Sarti) Didone abbandonata is an opera, or dramma per musica, by Giuseppe Sarti, set to a libretto by the renowned poet Metastasio. The opera was first performed in the winter of 1762 in Copenhagen, and was composed especially for the Danish court of the time... (revised version) |
dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | June 1782 | Padua, Obizzi |
| Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode Fra i due litiganti il terzo gode is a dramma giocoso in two acts by Giuseppe Sarti. The libretto was after Carlo Goldoni's Le nozze .... |
dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty... 's Le nozze |
14 September 1782 | Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... , Teatro alla Scala |
| Attalo, re di Bitinia | dramma per musica | 3 acts | 26 December 1782 | Venice, San Benedetto | |
| Idalide | dramma per musica | 3 acts | F Moretti | 8 January 1783 | Milan, Scala |
| Erifile | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra | Carnival 1783 | Pavia Pavia Pavia , the ancient Ticinum, is a town and comune of south-western Lombardy, northern Italy, 35 km south of Milan on the lower Ticino river near its confluence with the Po. It is the capital of the province of Pavia. It has a population of c. 71,000... |
| Il trionfo della pace | dramma per musica | 2 acts | C Olivieri | 10 May 1783 | Mantua Mantua Mantua is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the province of the same name. Mantua's historic power and influence under the Gonzaga family, made it one of the main artistic, cultural and notably musical hubs of Northern Italy and the country as a whole... , Ducale |
| Olimpiade (revised version) | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 1783 | Rome, Dame |
| Gli amanti consolati | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | 1784 | St Petersburg | |
| I finti eredi | opera comica | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati Giovanni Bertati Giovanni Bertati is an Italian librettist.In 1763, Bertati wrote his first libretto, La morte di Dimone , set to music by Antonio Tozzi. Two years later, L'isola della fortuna , based on Bertati's libretto and Andrea Luchesi's music, was performed in Vienna... 's Il vilano geloso |
19/30 October 1785 | St Petersburg, Kammenïy |
| Armida e Rinaldo | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Marco Coltellini Marco Coltellini Marco Coltellini was an Italian opera librettist and printer.He was probably born in Livorno and embarked on a career in the Church, but had to leave after fathering four daughters. He set up a printing shop in Livorno to publish the works of Enlightenment figures such as Francesco Algarotti and... |
15/26 January 1786 | St Petersburg, Hermitage |
| Castor e Polluce | dramma per musica | 2 acts | F Moretti, after P-J Bernard | 22 September/3 October 1786 | St Petersburg, Hermitage |
| Zenoclea | azione teatrale Azione teatrale Azione teatrale is a genre of opera, popular in Italy in the late 17th and 18th centuries... |
2 acts | F Moretti | 1786, unperformed | |
| Alessandro nell'Indie (second version) |
dramma per musica | Metastasio | winter 1787 | Palermo Palermo Palermo is a city in Southern Italy, the capital of both the autonomous region of Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old... , San Cecilia |
|
| Cleomene | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra | 27 December 1788 | Bologna Bologna Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,... , Zagnoni |
| The Early Reign of Oleg (Nachal'noye upravleniye Olega) |
5 acts | 15/26 October 1790 | St Petersburg, Hermitage | ||
| Andromeda | dramma per musica | F Moretti | 24 October/4 November 1798 | St Petersburg, Hermitage | |
| Enea nel Lazio | dramma per musica | 2 acts | F Moretti | 15/26 October 1799 | St Petersburg, Kammenïy |
| La famille indienne en Angleterre | 3 acts | Marchese di Castelnau, after August von Kotzebue August von Kotzebue August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German dramatist.One of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival in 1817. He was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften... |
1799 | St Petersburg, Kammenïy | |
| Les amours de Flore et de Zéphire | ballet anacréontique | 2 acts | P Chevalier | 7/19 September 1800 | Gatchina Gatchina Gatchina is a town and the administrative center of Gatchinsky District of Leningrad Oblast, Russia, located south of St. Petersburg by the road leading to Pskov... |