Opera libretti
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| Composer | First names | Dates | Opera Title | Librettist | Libretto source | First performed | Information |
| Albinoni | Tomaso | 1671-1751 | Didone abbandonata | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 1725, Carnival, Teatro Tron di San Cassiano, Venice | Opera seria. 3 acts. |
| Albinoni | Tomaso | 1671-1751 | Didone abbandonata | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 1725, Carnival, Teatro Tron di San Cassiano, Venice | Opera seria. 3 acts. |
| Auletta | Pietro Antonio | 1693/4-1771 | Ezio | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 26 December 1728, Teatro detto delle Dame, Rome | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Auletta | Pietro Antonio | 1693/4-1771 | Ezio | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | Carnival, 1729, Teatro detto delle Dame, Rome | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Bonno (Bono) |
Giuseppe Joseph | 1711-1788 | L'eroe cinese | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 13 May 1752, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Bonno (Bono) |
Giuseppe Joseph | 1711-1788 | L'eroe cinese | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 13 May 1752, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Bonno (Bono) |
Giuseppe Joseph | 1711-1788 | Il re pastore | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 27 October 1751, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Bonno (Bono) |
Giuseppe Joseph | 1711-1788 | Il re pastore | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 27 October 1751, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Bononcini | Antonio Maria | 1677-1726 | Griselda | Apostolo Zeno |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
26 December 1718, Regio ducal teatro, Milan | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Bononcini | Giovanni | 1670-1747 | Zenobia | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 28 August 1737, Favorita, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Bortniansky | Dimitrij Stepanowitsch | 1751-1825 | Alcide | Pietro Metastasio | Karadar | 1778, Venice | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Bortniansky | Dimitrij Stepanowitsch | 1751-1825 | Alcide | Pietro Metastasio | OperaGlass | 1778, Venice | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Achille in Sciro | Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
13 February 1736, Imperial Court, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Achille in Sciro | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 13 February 1736, Imperial Court, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Achille in Sciro | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 13 February 1736, Imperial Court, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Adriano in Siria | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 9 November 1732, Hoftheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Adriano in Siria | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 9 November 1732, Hoftheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Andromaca | Apostolo Zeno | Biblioteca Italiana | 28 August 1724, Favorita, Vienna | Opera. 5 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Ciro riconosciuto | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 28 August 1736, Giardino della Favorita, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Ciro riconosciuto | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 28 August 1736, Giardino della Favorita, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | La clemenza di Tito | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 4 November 1734, Hoftheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Demetrio | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 4 November 1731, Hoftheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Demetrio | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 4 November 1731, Hoftheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Demofoonte | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 4 November 1733, Hoftheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Demofoonte | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 4 November 1733, Hoftheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Demofoonte | Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
4 November 1733, Hoftheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | L'olimpiade | Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
8 August 1733, Freilichthteater Neue Favorita, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | L'olimpiade | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 8 August 1733, Freilichthteater Neue Favorita, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | L'olimpiade | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 8 August 1733, Freilichthteater Neue Favorita, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Temistocle | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 4 November 1736, Hoftheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Caldara | Antonio | 1670-1736 | Temistocle | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 4 November 1736, Hoftheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Cherubini | Luigi | 1760-1842 | Ifigenia in Aulide | Ferdinando Moretti | Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek | 12 January 1788, Teatro Regio, Turin | Opera seria. 3 acts. |
| Cimarosa | Domenico | 1749-1801 | Le astuzie femminili | Giuseppe Palomba | Karadar | 26 August 1794, Teatro dei Fiorentini, Naples | Opera. Comedy. 2 acts. |
| Cimarosa | Domenico | 1749-1801 | L'impresario in angustie | Giuseppe Maria Diodati |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
7 February 1786, Teatro nuovo, Naples | Opera. Farsa per musica. 1 or 2 acts. |
| Cimarosa | Domenico | 1749-1801 | Il matrimonio segreto | Giovanni Bertati | Karadar | 7 February 1792, Vienna, Burgtheater | Opera. 2 acts. |
| Cimarosa | Domenico | 1749-1801 | Il matrimonio segreto | Giovanni Bertati |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
7 February 1792, Vienna, Burgtheater | Opera. 2 acts. |
| Cimarosa | Domenico | 1749-1801 | Il matrimonio segreto (Die heimliche Ehe) | Giovanni Bertati, after The Clandestine Marriage by George Colman d. Ä. and David Garrick | La Fenice archives | 7 February 1792, Vienna, Burgtheater (Kaiserlich-königliches National-Hoftheater) (in Anwesenheit von Kaiser Leopold II.) | Melodramma giocoso. 2 acts. |
| Cimarosa | Domenico | 1749-1801 | L'Olimpiade | Pietro Metastasio | La Fenice archives | 10. Juli 1784, Vicenza, Teatro Eretenio; zur Eröffnung dieses Hauses | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Cimarosa | Domenico | 1749-1801 | Gli orazi e i curiazi | A. S. Sografi |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
26 December 1796, Venice, La Fenice | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Conforto (Conforti) | Nicola (Nicolás, Nicolò, Niccolò) |
1718-1793 | Adriano in Siria | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 23 September 1757, Coliseo del Buen Retiro, Madrid | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Conforto (Conforti) | Nicola (Nicolás, Nicolò, Niccolò) |
1718-1793 | Nitteti | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 23 September 1756, Coliseo del Buen Retiro, Madrid | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Conforto (Conforti) | Nicola (Nicolás, Nicolò, Niccolò) |
1718-1793 | Nitteti | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 23 September 1756, Coliseo del Buen Retiro, Madrid | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Conti | Francesco Bartolomeo | 1681-1732 | Issipile | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | Carnival 1732, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Conti | Francesco Bartolomeo | 1681-1732 | Issipile | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | Carnival 1732, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Galuppi | Baldassarre | 1706-1785 | L'Arcadia in Brenta | Carlo Goldoni |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
May 1749, Venice, Teatro S. Angelo | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Galuppi | Baldassarre | 1706-1785 | Arcifanfano, re dei matti | Carlo Goldoni |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
Carnival 1750 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Galuppi | Baldassarre | 1706-1785 | La diavolessa | Carlo Goldoni |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
November 1755 Venice, Teatro S. Samuele | Dramma giocoso. 3 acts. |
| Galuppi | Baldassarre | 1706-1785 | Didone abbandonata | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 1752, Teatro Buon Ritiro, Madrid | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Galuppi | Baldassarre | 1706-1785 | Il filosofo di campagna | Carlo Goldoni |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
26 October 1754, Venice, Teatro San Samuele | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Galuppi | Baldassarre | 1706-1785 | L'Olimpiade | Pietro Metastasio | C18-operas archives | 26 December 1747, Milan, Teatro Regio Ducale | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Gasparini | Francesco | 1661-1727 | La fede tradita, e vendicata | Francesco Silvani |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
5 January 1704, Venice, S. Cassiano | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Gazzaniga | Giuseppe | 1743-1818 | Don Giovanni ossia Il convitato di pietra |
Giovanni Bertati |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
5 February 1787, Venice | Opera buffa. 1 act. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Alceste (Italian libretto) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi, after Euripides |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
16. Dez. 1767, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. Gluck's second "reform" opera. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Alceste (Italian libretto) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi, after Euripides | Naxos | 16. Dez. 1767, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. Gluck's second "reform" opera. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Alceste (English libretto) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi, after Euripides | Naxos | 16. Dez. 1767, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. Gluck's second "reform" opera. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Armida | Philippe Quinault, after Tasso | Karadar | 23. Sept. 1777 Paris, Académie Royale | Opera. 5 acts. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Le cinesi | Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
24 Sept. 1754, Schlosshof bei Vienna | Opera. 1 act. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Echo et Narcisse | Ludwig Theodore Tschudi | Karadar | 24. Sept. 1779, Paris, Académie Royale | Opera. Drame lyrique, Prolog und 3 acts. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Echo et Narcisse | Ludwig Theodore Tschudi | Bob Frone | 24. Sept. 1779, Paris, Académie Royale | Opera. Drame lyrique, Prolog und 3 acts. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Iphigénie en Aulide | Leblanc du Roullet, after Racine | Karadar | 19. April 1774 Paris, Académie Royale | Opera. Tragédie-opéra. 3 acts. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Iphigénie en Aulide | Leblanc du Roullet, after Racine | Bob Frone | 19. April 1774 Paris, Académie Royale | Opera. Tragédie-opéra. 3 acts. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Iphigénie en Tauride | N. F.Guillard, after Euripides | Karadar | 8 May 1779 Paris, Académie Royale | Opera. Tragédie 4 acts. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Orfeo ed Euridice (Italian libretto) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi | Karadar | 5 October 1762, Vienna, Burgtheater | Opera. 3 acts. The first of Gluck's "reform" operas. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Orfeo ed Euridice (Italian libretto) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
5 October 1762, Vienna, Burgtheater | Opera. 3 acts. The first of Gluck's "reform" operas. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Orfeo ed Euridice (Italian libretto) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi | Naxos | 5 October 1762, Vienna, Burgtheater | Opera. 3 acts. The first of Gluck's "reform" operas. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Orfeo ed Euridice (French libretto) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi | Naxos | 2 August 1774, Académie Royale de Musique, Paris | Opera. 3 acts. The first of Gluck's "reform" operas. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Orfeo ed Euridice (Italian libretto) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi | Stanford.edu | 5 October 1762 Vienna, Burgtheater | Opera. 3 acts. The first of Gluck's "reform" operas. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Orfeo ed Euridice (French libretto) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi | Stanford.edu | 2 August 1774, Académie Royale de Musique, Paris | Opera. 3 acts. The first of Gluck's "reform" operas. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Paride ed Elena (Italian libretto with English, French and German translations) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi | Rapidshare | 3 November 1770, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 5 acts. Gluck's third "reform" opera. |
| Gluck | Christoph Willibald | 1714-1787 | Paride ed Elena (Italian libretto) | Ranieri de' Calzabigi |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
3 November 1770, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 5 acts. Gluck's third "reform" opera. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Admeto, re di Tessaglia | Anonymous librettist adapted from L'Antigona delusa da Alceste (1660) by Aurelio Aureli, and from L'Alceste (1679) by Ortensio Mauro | Karadar | 31 January 1727, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 22 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Admeto, re di Tessaglia | Anonymous librettist adapted from L'Antigona delusa da Alceste (1660) by Aurelio Aureli, and from L'Alceste (1679) by Ortensio Mauro | HAENDEL.IT | 31 January 1727, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 22 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Admeto, re di Tessaglia | Anonymous librettist adapted from L'Antigona delusa da Alceste (1660) by Aurelio Aureli, and from L'Alceste (1679) by Ortensio Mauro | Stanford.edu | 31 January 1727, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 22 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Alcina | Anonymous librettist, after L'isola della Alcina (1728) by Riccardo Broschi, based on Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto | HAENDEL.IT | 16 April 1735, Royal Theatre, Covent Garden, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 34 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Alcina | Anonymous librettist, after L'isola della Alcina (1728) by Riccardo Broschi, based on Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
16 April 1735, Royal Theatre, Covent Garden, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 34 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Alessandro | Paolo Antonio Rolli, after La superbia d'Alessandro (1690) by Ortensio Mauro | HAENDEL.IT | 5 May 1726, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 21 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Almira, königin von Kastilien | Friedrich Christian Feustking, after Almira (1691) by Giulio Pancieri | HAENDEL.IT | 8 January 1705, Theater am Gänsemarkt, Amburgo | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 1 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Amadigi di Gaula | Libretto attributed to Nicola Haym (o Giacomo Rossi), after Amadis de Grèce by Antoine Houdar de La Motte | HAENDEL.IT | 25 May 1715, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera seria. 3 acts. HWV 11. |
| Handel | Georg Friedrich | 1685-1759 | Amadigi di Gaula | Libretto attributed to Nicola Haym (o Giacomo Rossi), after Amadis de Grèce by Antoine Houdar de La Motte |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
25 May 1715 | Opera seria. 3 acts. HWV 11. |
| Handel | Georg Friedrich | 1685-1759 | Amadigi di Gaula | Libretto attributed to Nicola Haym (o Giacomo Rossi), after Amadis de Grèce by Antoine Houdar de La Motte |
RAI 3 (PDF format) |
25 May 1715 | Opera seria. 3 acts. HWV 11. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Arianna in Creta (Arias only) | Anonymous librettist, after Arianna e Teseo by Pietro Pariati | HAENDEL.IT | 26 January 1734, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 32 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Ariodante | Anonymous librettist, after Ginevra, principessa by Scozia (1708) by Antonio Salvi, after Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) | Karadar | 8 January 1735, Covent Garden, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 33 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Ariodante | Anonymous librettist, after Ginevra, principessa by Scozia (1708) by Antonio Salvi, after Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) | HAENDEL.IT | 8 January 1735, Covent Garden, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 33 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Ariodante | Anonymous librettist, after Ginevra, principessa by Scozia (1708) by Antonio Salvi, after Orlando furioso by Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
8 January 1735, Covent Garden, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 33 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Arminio | Anonymous librettist, after Antonio Salvi, 1703 | HAENDEL.IT | 12 January 1737, Royal Theatre, Covent Garden, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 36 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Atalanta | Anonymous librettist, after La caccia in Etolia (1715) by Belisario Valeriani | HAENDEL.IT | 12 May 1736, Royal Theatre, Covent Garden, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 35 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Deidamia | Paolo Antonio Rolli | HAENDEL.IT | 10 January 1741, Theatre Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 42 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Deidamia | Paolo Antonio Rolli (English translation) |
Barn Elms | 10 January 1741, Theatre Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 42 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Dionisio, re di Portogallo (basis of Sosarme, re di Media) |
Antonio Salvi |
RAI 3 (PDF format) |
30 September 1707, Pratolino | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Ezio | Anonymous librettist, after Pietro Metastasio | HAENDEL.IT | 15 January 1732, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 29 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Flavio, re de' Longobardi | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Flavio Cuniberto (1682) by Matteo Noris | HAENDEL.IT | 14 May 1723, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 16 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Floridante | Paolo Antonio Rolli, after La costanza in trionfo (1706) by Francesco Silvani | HAENDEL.IT | 9 December 1721, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 14 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Gian Francesco Bussani | Karadar | 20 February 1724, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 17 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Gian Francesco Bussani | HAENDEL.IT | 20 February 1724, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 17 |
| Handel | Georg Friedrich | 1685-1759 | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Gian Francesco Bussani |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
20 February 1724, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 17 |
| Handel | Georg Friedrich | 1685-1759 | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Gian Francesco Bussani | Stanford.edu | 20 February 1724, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 17 |
| Handel | Georg Friedrich | 1685-1759 | Giulio Cesare in Egitto | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Gian Francesco Bussani | RAI 3 | 20 February 1724, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 17 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Giustino | Anonymous librettist, after Nicolò Beregani and Pietro Pariati | HAENDEL.IT | 16 February 1737, Royal Theatre, Covent Garden, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 37 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Hercules | Thomas Broughton after Trachinie by Sophocles and Metamorfosi by Ovid | HAENDEL.IT | 5 January 1745, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 60. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Imeneo | Anonymous librettist, after Silvio Stampiglia | HAENDEL.IT | 22 November 1740, Theatre Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 41. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Imeneo (English translation) |
Anonymous librettist, after Silvio Stampiglia | Barn Elms | 22 November 1740, Theatre Royal, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 41. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Hercules | Thomas Broughton after Trachinie by Sophocles and Metamorfosi by Ovid | Stanford.edu | 5 January 1745, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 60. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Lotario | Giacomo Rossi, after Adelaide by Antonio Salvi | HAENDEL.IT | 2 December 1729, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 26 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Muzio Scevola | Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Silvio Stampiglia | HAENDEL.IT | 15 April 1721, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. HWV 13 Act III (Act I by F. Amadei, Act II by G. Bononcini) |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Orlando | Anonymous librettist after Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1711) and after Orlando furioso (1532 ) by Ludovico Ariosto | HAENDEL.IT | 27 January 1733, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 31 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Orlando | Anonymous librettist after Carlo Sigismondo Capece (1711) and after Orlando furioso (1532 ) by Ludovico Ariosto |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
27 January 1733, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 31 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Ottone, re di Germania | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Teofane by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino | HAENDEL.IT | 12 January 1723, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 15 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Ottone, re di Germania (English translation) |
Nicola Francesco Haym, after Teofane by Stefano Benedetto Pallavicino | Barn Elms | 12 January 1723, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 15 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Partenope | Silvio Stampiglia | HAENDEL.IT | 24 February 1730, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 27 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Il pastor fido (1734 version - HWV 8c) | Giacomo Rossi, after Il Pastor fido (1585) by Giovan Battista Guarini | HAENDEL.IT | April - May 1734, London, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 8c (2nd and 3rd versions 1734). |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Il pastor fido (The Faithful Shepherd) (1712 version - HWV 8a) (English translation) |
Giacomo Rossi, after Il Pastor fido (1585) by Giovan Battista Guarini | Barn Elms | September - 24 October 1712; 22 November 1712, Queen's Theatre, London | Pastoral opera in 3 acts. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Poro, re dell'Indie | Anonymous librettist, after Alessandro nell'Indie (1730) by Pietro Metastasio | HAENDEL.IT | 2 February 1731, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 28 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Radamisto | Nicola Francesco Haym, after L'amor tirannico, o Zenobia by Domenico Lalli. | HAENDEL.IT | 27 April 1720, London, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 12b (version December 1720) |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Riccardo Primo, re d'Inghilterra | Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Isacio tiranno (1710) by Francesco Briani | HAENDEL.IT | 11 November 1727, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 23 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Rinaldo | Giacomo Rossi on a dramatisation by Aaron Hill, after La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso | Karadar | 24 February 1711, Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 7a (version 1711) |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Rinaldo | Giacomo Rossi on a dramatisation by Aaron Hill, after La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso | HAENDEL.IT | 24 February 1711, Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 7a (versione 1711). |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Rinaldo | Giacomo Rossi on a dramatisation by Aaron Hill, after La Gerusalemme liberata by Torquato Tasso | Stanford.edu | 24 February 1711, Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 7a (versione 1711). |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Antonio Salvi (1710), after Pertharite, roi des Lombards (1652) by Pierre Corneille | HAENDEL.IT | 13 February 1725, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 19. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Rodelinda, regina de' Longobardi | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Antonio Salvi (1710), after Pertharite, roi des Lombards (1652) by Pierre Corneille |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
13 February 1725, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 19. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Rodrigo | Anonymous librettist (Antonio Salvi?) after Il duello d'Amore e di Vendetta (1700) by Francesco Silvani | HAENDEL.IT | Autumn 1707, Teatro del Cocomero, Firenze | Opera in 3 acts. HWV 5 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Scipione ossia Publio Cornelio Scipione |
Paolo Antonio Rolli, after Publio Cornelio Scipione (1704) by Antonio Salvi | HAENDEL.IT | 12 March 1726, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 20 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Serse | Anonymous librettist, after Silvio Stampiglia e Nicolò Minato | HAENDEL.IT | 15 April 1738, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 40. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Serse | Anonymous librettist, after Silvio Stampiglia e Nicolò Minato |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
15 April 1738, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 40. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Silla | Giacomo Rossi, after Plutarch | HAENDEL.IT | 2(?) June 1713, Burlington House(?), London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 10. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Siroe, re di Persia | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Pietro Metastasio (1726) | HAENDEL.IT | 17 February 1728, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 24. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Siroe, re di Persia | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Pietro Metastasio (1726) | La Fenice archives | 17 February 1728, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 24. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Siroe, re di Persia | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Pietro Metastasio (1726) |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
17 February 1728, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 24. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Sosarme, re di Media | Matteo Noris (?) after Dionisio, re di Portogallo (1707) by Antonio Salvi | HAENDEL.IT | 15 February 1732, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 30 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Sosarme, re di Media (English translation) |
Matteo Noris (?) after Dionisio, re di Portogallo (1707) by Antonio Salvi | Barn Elms | 15 February 1732, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 30 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Tamerlano | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Il Bajazete by Agostino Piovene, after Tamerlan by N. Pradon | HAENDEL.IT | 31 October 1724, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 18 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Teseo | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Thésée (1675) by Philippe Quinault | HAENDEL.IT | 10 January 1713, Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 5 acts. HWV 9 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto | Nicola Francesco Haym, after Tolomeo e Alessandro (1711) by Carlo Sigismondo Capece | HAENDEL.IT | 30 April 1728, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 25 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Tolomeo, Re d'Egitto (English translation) |
Nicola Francesco Haym, after Tolomeo e Alessandro (1711) by Carlo Sigismondo Capece | Barn Elms | 30 April 1728, King's Theatre, Haymarket, London | Opera. 3 acts. HWV 25 |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Antigono | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 20 January 1744, Hoftheater, Dresden | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Antigono | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 20 January 1744, Hoftheater, Dresden | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Artaserse | Pietro Metastasio | Aris Christofellis Voice Page | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo, February 1730 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Artaserse | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Crisostomo, February 1730 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699 - 1783 | Attilio Regolo | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 12 January 1750, Dresden (libretto written 1740) | Opera. Melodrama in 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699 - 1783 | Attilio Regolo | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 12 January 1750, Dresden (libretto written 1740) | Opera. Melodrama in 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | La clemenza di Tito ossia Tito Vespasiano |
Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
24 Settembre 1735, Pesaro | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Ipermestra | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 8 January 1744, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Ipermestra | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 8 January 1744, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Romolo ed Ersilia | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 6 August 1765, Innsbruck | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Romolo ed Ersilia | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 6 August 1765, Innsbruck | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Il Ruggiero ossia L'eroica gratitudine |
Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
16 October 1771, Milan | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Il Ruggiero ossia L'eroica gratitudine |
Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 16 October 1771, Milan | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Il Ruggiero ossia L'eroica gratitudine |
Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 16 October 1771, Milan | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Solimano | Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca | Karadar | 5 February 1753, Dresden | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Il trionfo di Clelia | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 27. April 1762, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Hasse | Johann Adolf | 1699-1783 | Il trionfo di Clelia | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 27. April 1762, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Haydn | Franz Joseph | 1732-1809 | Il mondo della luna | Carlo Goldoni |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
3 August 1777, Esterhaz | Dramma giocoso. 3 acts. |
| Haydn | Franz Joseph | 1732-1809 | L'isola disabitata | Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
6 December 1779, Esterhaz | Azione teatrale. 1 act. |
| Jommelli | Niccolò | 1714-1774 | Demetrio | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | Teatro Buon Ritiro, Madrid, 1751 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Jommelli | Niccolò | 1714-1774 | Fetonte | Mattia Verazi |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
11 February 1768, Schloss Ludwigsburg | Opera seria. 3 acts. |
| Jommelli | Niccolò | 1714-1774 | Semiramide riconosciuta | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 1742, Teatro Buen Retiro, Madrid | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Latilla | Gaetano | 1711-1788 | L'amore artigiano | Carlo Goldoni |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
1742, Teatro Buen Retiro, Madrid | Dramma giocoso. 3 acts. |
| Leo | Leonardo | 1694-1744 | Amor vuol sofferenza | Gennarantonio Federico |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
Autumn 1739, Naples, Teatro nuovo | Commedia per musica. 3 acts. |
| Leo | Leonardo | 1694-1744 | Catone in Utica | Pietro Metastasio | Aris Christofellis Voice Page | Teatro Grimani di San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice, Carnival 1729 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Leo | Leonardo | 1694-1744 | Catone in Utica | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | Teatro Grimani di San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice, Carnival 1729 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Lotti | Antonio | 1666-1740 | Alessandro Severo | Apostolo Zeno | Biblioteca Italiana | 26 December 1716, S. Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Martín y Soler | Vicente | 1754-1806 | Una Cosa rara ossia Belezza ed onestŕ |
Lorenzo Da Ponte, after La luna della Sierra by Luis Vélez de Guevara |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
17 November 1786, Vienna, Burgtheater | Dramma giocoso in 2 acts. |
| Mayr (Mayer, Mayer, Maier) | Johann Simon (Giovanni Simone) | 1763-1845 | La Lodoiska | Francesco Gonella |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
26 January 1796, Venice | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Apollo et Hyacinthus | Rufinus Widl | OperaGlass | 13 May 1767, University of Salzburg | Opera. K.38 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Apollo et Hyacinthus | Rufinus Widl | Karadar | 13 May 1767, University of Salzburg | Opera. K.38 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Ascanio in Alba | Giuseppe Parini | Karadar | 17 October 1771, Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan | Opera. K.111 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Ascanio in Alba | Giuseppe Parini | Aris Christofellis Voice Page | 17 October 1771, Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan | Opera. K.111 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Bastien und Bastienne | Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern und Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller | OperaGlass | 2 October 1890, Architektenhaus, Berlin | Singspiel. 1 Act. K.50 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Bastien und Bastienne | Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern und Johann Heinrich Friedrich Müller | Karadar | 2 October 1890, Architektenhaus, Berlin | Opera. K.50. |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | La clemenza di Tito | Caterino Mazzolà after Metastasio | Karadar | 6 Settembre 1791 Nationaltheater, Prague | Opera. K.621. |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | La clemenza di Tito | Caterino Mazzolà after Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
6 Settembre 1791 Nationaltheater, Prague | Opera. K.621. |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | La clemenza di Tito | Caterino Mazzolà after Metastasio | RAI 3 | 6 Settembre 1791 Nationaltheater, Prague | Opera. K.621. |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Così fan tutte ossia La Scuola degli Amanti |
Lorenzo Da Ponte | OperaGlass | 26 January 1790, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 2 acts. KV 588. |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Così fan tutte ossia La Scuola degli Amanti |
Lorenzo Da Ponte | C18-operas archives | 26 January 1790, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 2 acts. KV 588. |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Così fan tutte ossia La Scuola degli Amanti |
Lorenzo Da Ponte |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
26 January 1790, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 2 acts KV 588 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Così fan tutte ossia La Scuola degli Amanti |
Lorenzo da Ponte | Karadar | 26 January 1790, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 2 acts KV 588 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Così fan tutte ossia La Scuola degli Amanti |
Lorenzo da Ponte | Naxos | 26 January 1790, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 2 acts KV 588 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Così fan tutte ossia La Scuola degli Amanti |
Lorenzo da Ponte | Bob Frone | 26 January 1790, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 2 acts KV 588 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Così fan tutte ossia La Scuola degli Amanti (English libretto) |
Lorenzo da Ponte | Bob Frone | 26 January 1790, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 2 acts KV 588 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Don Giovanni o l'empio punito ossia Il dissoluto punito |
Lorenzo Da Ponte |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
29 October 1787, Nationaltheater, Prague | Opera. 2 acts KV 527 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Don Giovanni o l'empio punito ossia Il dissoluto punito |
Lorenzo da Ponte | Karadar | 29 October 1787, Nationaltheater, Prague | Opera. 2 acts KV 527 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Don Giovanni o l'empio punito ossia Il dissoluto punito |
Lorenzo da Ponte | Bob Frone | 29 October 1787, Nationaltheater, Prague | Opera. 2 acts KV 527 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Don Giovanni o l'empio punito ossia Il dissoluto punito (English libretto) |
Lorenzo da Ponte | Bob Frone | 29 October 1787, Nationaltheater, Prague | Opera. 2 acts KV 527 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Don Giovanni o l'empio punito ossia Il dissoluto punito |
Lorenzo da Ponte | Naxos | 29 October 1787, Nationaltheater, Prague | Opera. 2 acts KV 527 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Don Giovanni o l'empio punito ossia Il dissoluto punito |
Lorenzo da Ponte | RAI 3 | 29 October 1787, Nationaltheater, Prague | Opera. 2 acts KV 527 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Johann Gottlieb Stephanie der Jüngere | OperaGlass | 16 July 1782, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts K.384 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Johann Gottlieb Stephanie der Jüngere | Karadar | 16 July 1782, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. K.384 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Johann Gottlieb Stephanie der Jüngere | Naxos | 16 July 1782, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. K.384 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Johann Gottlieb Stephanie der Jüngere | RAI 3 | 16 July 1782, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. K.384 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail | Johann Gottlieb Stephanie der Jüngere | RAI 3 | 16 July 1782, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. K.384 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | La finta giardiniera | attributed to Raniero de Calzabigi after Giuseppe Petrosellini, with revisions by Marco Coltellini | Opernhaus Zürich | 13 January 1775, Salvatortheater, Munich | Opera. 3 acts. K.196 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | La finta giardiniera | attributed to Raniero de Calzabigi after Giuseppe Petrosellini, with revisions by Marco Coltellini |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
13 January 1775, Salvatortheater, Munich | Opera. 3 acts. K.196 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | La finta semplice | Marco Coltellini after Carlo Ovaldo Goldoni | La Fenice archives | 1 May 1769, Archbishop's Court, Salzburg | Opera. 3 acts. K.51 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | La finta semplice | Marco Coltellini after Carlo Ovaldo Goldoni | Karadar | 1 May 1769, Archbishop's Court, Salzburg | Opera. 3 acts. K.51 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe | Giuseppe Petrosellini (German translation) | OperaGlass | 13 January 1775, Redoutensaal, Munich | Opera. 3 acts. K.196 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Gärtnerin aus Liebe | Giuseppe Petrosellini (German translation) | Karadar | 13 January 1775, Redoutensaal, Munich | Opera. 3 acts. K.196 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Idomeneo ossia Ilia ed Idamante |
Giambattista Varesco |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
29 January 1781 | Opera. 3 acts. K.366 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Idomeneo ossia Ilia ed Idamante |
Giambattista Varesco | Karadar | 29 January 1781, Court Theatre, Munich | Opera. 3 acts. K.366 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Idomeneo ossia Ilia ed Idamante |
Giambattista Varesco | Opernhaus Zürich | 29 January 1781, Court Theatre, Munich | Opera. 3 acts. K.366 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Idomeneo ossia Ilia ed Idamante |
Giambattista Varesco | RAI 3 | 29 January 1781, Court Theatre, Munich | Opera. 3 acts. K.366 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Idomeneo ossia Ilia ed Idamante (German text) |
Giambattista Varesco |
RAI 3 (PDF format) |
29 January 1781, Court Theatre, Munich | Opera. 3 acts. K.366 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Lucio Silla | Giovanni de Gamerra, Pietro Metastasio | Karadar | 26 December 1772, Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan | Opera. 3 acts. K.135 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Lucio Silla | Giovanni de Gamerra, Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
26 December 1772, Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan | Opera. 3 acts. K.135 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Lucio Silla | Giovanni de Gamerra, Pietro Metastasio | www.puccini.it | 26 December 1772, Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan | Opera. 3 acts. K.135 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Lucio Silla | Giovanni de Gamerra, Pietro Metastasio | La Fenice archives | 26 December 1772, Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan | Opera. 3 acts. K.135 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Mitridate, Re di Ponto | Vittorio Amadeo Cigna-Santi | OperaGlass | 26 December 1770, Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan | Opera. 3 acts. K.87 (K.74a). |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Mitridate, Re di Ponto | Vittorio Amadeo Cigna-Santi | Karadar | 26 December 1770, Teatro Regio Ducal, Milan | Opera. 3 acts. K.87 (K.74a). |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Le nozze di Figaro | Lorenzo da Ponte | Karadar | 1 May 1786, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera buffa in 4 acts. K.492 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Le nozze di Figaro | Lorenzo da Ponte | La Fenice archives | 1 May 1786, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera buffa in 4 acts. K.492 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Le nozze di Figaro | Lorenzo Da Ponte |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
1 May 1786, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera buffa in 4 acts. K.492 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Le nozze di Figaro | Lorenzo Da Ponte | Bob Frone | 1 May 1786, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera buffa in 4 acts. K.492 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Le nozze di Figaro (English libretto) | Lorenzo Da Ponte | Bob Frone | 1 May 1786, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera buffa in 4 acts. K.492 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Le nozze di Figaro | Lorenzo Da Ponte | Naxos | 1 May 1786, Burgtheater, Vienna | Opera buffa in 4 acts. K.492 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | L'oca del Cairo | Giambattista Varesco | OperaGlass | Composed 1783 but Mozart never completed it;
First performance [concert]: Frankfurt, April 1860. First performance of a stage version: Paris, 1867. |
Dramma giocoso. 1 act. K.422 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | L'oca del Cairo | Giambattista Varesco | Karadar | Composed 1783 but Mozart never completed it;
First performance [concert]: Frankfurt, April 1860. First performance of a stage version: Paris, 1867. |
Dramma giocoso. 1 act. K.422 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Il re pastore | Pietro Metastasio | Karadar | 23 April 1775, Archiepiscopal Residence, Salzburg | Opera. 2 acts. K.208 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Der Schauspieldirektor | Stephanie d. J. | Karadar | 7 February 1786, Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna | Comic Singspiel. K.486 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Lo sposo deluso (ossia La Rivalità di tre donne per un solo amante) | Unknown librettist | OperaGlass | 1784 | Opera buffa in 2 acts. K.430 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Lo sposo deluso (ossia La Rivalità di tre donne per un solo amante) | Unknown librettist | Karadar | 1784 | Opera buffa in 2 acts. K.430 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Zaide | Johann Andreas Schachtner | OperaGlass | Composed 1779 or 1780 but Mozart never completed it. Adapted version first staged 27 January 1866, Frankfurt. | Singspiel. Unfinished. K.344 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Zaide | Johann Andreas Schachtner | Karadar | Composed 1779 or 1780 but Mozart never completed it. Adapted version first staged 27 January 1866, Frankfurt. | Singspiel. Unfinished. K.344 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Zauberflöte | Emanuel Schikaneder | OperaGlass | 30 September 1791, Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna | Singspiel in 2 acts. K.620 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Zauberflöte | Emanuel Schikaneder | Karadar | 30 September 1791, Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna | Singspiel in 2 acts. K.620 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Zauberflöte (Il flauto magico) (Italian libretto) | Emanuel Schikaneder | La Fenice archives | 30 September 1791, Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna | Singspiel in 2 acts. K.620 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Zauberflöte | Emanuel Schikaneder | Bob Frone | 30 September 1791, Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna | Singspiel in 2 acts. K.620 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (English libretto) | Emanuel Schikaneder | Bob Frone | 30 September 1791, Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna | Singspiel in 2 acts. K.620 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) (English libretto) | Emanuel Schikaneder | Naxos | 30 September 1791, Theater auf der Wieden, Vienna | Singspiel in 2 acts. K.620 |
| Paisiello | Giovanni | 1741-1816 | Il barbiere di Siviglia ossia La precauzione inutile |
Giuseppe Petrosellini |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
15 September 1782 | Opera |
| Paisiello | Giovanni | 1740-1816 | Il barbiere di Siviglia ossia La precauzione inutile |
Giuseppe Petrosellini, after the comedy by the same title by Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1775) | La Fenice archives | 26 September 1782, Hoftheater, St. Petersburg (in italian) | Opera |
| Paisiello | Giovanni | 1740-1816 | Don Chisciotte della Mancia | Giovan Battista Lorenzi, after Cervantes | Karadar | 1769 | Opera |
| Paisiello | Giovanni | 1740-1816 | I filosofi immaginari ossia Gli astrologi immaginari |
Giovanni Bertati |
RAI 3 (PDF format) |
14 February 1779, Hermitage Theatre, St. Petersburg | Dramma giocoso. 2 acts. |
| Paisiello | Giovanni | 1740-1816 | I giuochi d'Agrigento | Alessandro Pepoli |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
16 May 1792 | Opera |
| Paisiello | Giovanni | 1740-1816 | Il Marchese Tulipano | ??? | Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek | 1786, King's Theatre, Hay-Market, London | Comic opera. 2 acts. |
| Paisiello | Giovanni | 1740-1816 | Il re Teodoro in Venezia | Giovanni Battista Casti | Karadar | 23 August 1784, Burgtheater, Vienna | Dramma giocoso in 2 acts. |
| Paisiello | Giovanni | 1740-1816 | Il re Teodoro in Venezia | Giovanni Battista Casti |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
23 August 1784, Burgtheater, Vienna | Dramma eroicomico in 2 acts. |
| Paisiello | Giovanni | 1740-1816 | Il re Teodoro in Venezia | Giovanni Battista Casti | La Fenice archives | 23 August 1784 Burgtheater Vienna | Dramma eroicomico in 2 acts. |
| Paisiello | Giovanni | 1740-1816 | Il Socrate immaginario | Giambattista Lorenzi |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
October 1775, Teatro Nuovo, Naples | Opera. Commedia per musica. Tre acts. |
| Pergolesi | Giovanni Battista | 1710-1736 | Adriano in Siria | Pietro Metastasio |
RAI 3 (PDF format) |
Naples, Teatro San Bartolomeo, 25 October 1734 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Pergolesi | Giovanni Battista | 1710-1736 | Livietta e Tracollo ossia La Contadina Astuta |
Tomaso Marinari | Karadar | 173? | Opera |
| Pergolesi | Giovanni Battista | 1710-1736 | L'olimpiade | Pietro Metastasio |
RAI 3 (rtf format) |
Opera. 3 acts. | |
| Pergolesi | Giovanni Battista | 1710-1736 | La serva padrona | Gennaro Antonio Fererico | Karadar | 1733 | Intermezzo. 2 parts. |
| Pergolesi | Giovanni Battista | 1710-1736 | La serva padrona | Gennaro Antonio Fererico |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
28 August 1733, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples | Intermezzo. 2 parts. |
| Pergolesi | Giovanni Battista | 1710-1736 | La serva padrona | Gennaro Antonio Fererico | Bob Frone | 28 August 1733, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples | Intermezzo. 2 parts. |
| Pergolesi | Giovanni Battista | 1710-1736 | La serva padrona (English libretto) | Gennaro Antonio Fererico | Bob Frone | 28 August 1733, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples | Intermezzo. 2 parts. |
| Piccinni | Niccolò | 1728-1800 | La bella veritŕ | Carlo Goldoni |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
12 June 1762, Teatro Marsigli-Rossi, Bologna | Opera buffa. 3 acts. |
| Piccinni | Niccolò | 1728-1800 | La Cecchina ossia La buona figliola |
Carlo Goldoni |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
6 February 1760, Teatro delle Dame Rome | Opera |
| Piccinni | Niccolò | 1728-1800 | La Cecchina (La buona figliola) | Carlo Goldoni | Karadar | 6 February 1760, Teatro delle Dame Rome | Opera |
| Pollarolo | Carlo Francesco | 1653-1723 | Lucio Vero | Apostolo Zeno | Biblioteca Italiana | 1700, S. Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Porpora | Nicola Antonio | 1686-1768 | Ezio | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 20 November 1728, Teatro S. Giovanni Gristostomo, Venedig | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Porpora | Nicola Antonio | 1686-1768 | Semiramide riconosciuta | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | Carnival, 1729, Teatro Grimani di San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Porpora | Nicola Antonio | 1686-1768 | Siroe re di Persia | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 11 February 1727, Carnival, Teatro detto delle Dame, Rome | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Predieri | Luca Antonio | 1688-1767 | Il sogno di Scipione | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 1 October 1735, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Predieri | Luca Antonio | 1688-1767 | Zenobia | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 28 August, 1740, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Predieri | Luca Antonio | 1688-1767 | Zenobia | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 28 August, 1740, Vienna | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Rameau | Jean-Philippe | 1683-1764 | Castor et Pollux | Pierre-Joseph "Gentil" Bernard | Karadar | 24 October 1737 Paris, Grand Opéra (Académie Royale de Musique) | Tragédie lyrique in 5 acts. Revised Version: 1754. |
| Rameau | Jean-Philippe | 1683-1764 | Castor et Pollux | Pierre-Joseph "Gentil" Bernard | La Fenice archives | 24 October 1737 Paris, Grand Opéra (Académie Royale de Musique) | Tragédie lyrique in 5 acts. |
| Rameau | Jean-Philippe | 1683-1764 | Castor et Pollux | Pierre-Joseph "Gentil" Bernard | Bob Frone | 24 October 1737 Paris, Grand Opéra (Académie Royale de Musique) | Tragédie lyrique in 5 acts. Revised Version: 1754. |
| Rameau | Jean-Philippe | 1683-1764 | Castore e Polluce (Castor et Pollux, Italian libretto) |
Pierre-Joseph "Gentil" Bernard | La Fenice archives | 24 October 1737 Paris, Grand Opéra (Académie Royale de Musique) | Tragédie lyrique in 5 acts. |
| Rameau | Jean-Philippe | 1683-1764 | Dardanus | Le Clerc de La Bruere | Karadar | November 19 1739, Académie de musique, Paris | Opera. 5 acts. |
| Rameau | Jean-Philippe | 1683-1764 | Dardanus | Le Clerc de La Bruere | Bob Frone | November 19 1739, Académie de musique, Paris | Opera. 5 acts. |
| Rameau | Jean-Philippe | 1683-1764 | Les Indes galantes | Fuzelier | Karadar | 23 August 1735, Académie Royale de Musique et Danse, Paris | Opera. 4 acts. |
| Righini | Vincenzo | 1756-1812 | Il convitato di pietra ossia Il dissoluto |
Nunziato Porta |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
21 August 1777, Theater am Kärntnernor, Vienna. | Dramma tragicomico. 3 acts. |
| Salieri | Antonio | 1750-1825 | Axur, re d'Ormus | Lorenzo Da Ponte after Tarare by Beaumarchais |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
8 January 1788, Vienna. | Dramma tragicomico. 5 acts. |
| Salieri | Antonio | 1750-1825 | Europa riconosciuta | Mattia Verazi |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
3 August 1778, La Scala, Milan. | Opera. 2 acts. |
| Salieri | Antonio | 1750-1825 | Falstaff | Carlo Prospero Defranceschi, after The Merry Wives of Windsor by Shakespeare |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
3 January 1799 | Dramma giocoso. 2 acts. |
| Salieri | Antonio | 1750-1825 | La grotta di Trofonio | Giovanni Battista Casti |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
12 October 1785 | Dramma giocoso. 2 acts. |
| Salieri | Antonio | 1750-1825 | Tarare | Pierre Augustin Beaumarchais | Karadar | 8 June 1787, Grand Opéra, Paris. | Opera. Prolog und 5 acts. |
| Sarro (Sarri) |
Domenico | 1679-1744 | Didone abbandonata | Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
1 February 1724, Carnival, Teatro S. Bartolomeo, Naples. | Opera seria, 3 acts. |
| Sarro (Sarri) |
Domenico | 1679 - 1744 | Didone abbandonata | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 1 February 1724, Carnival, Teatro S. Bartolomeo, Naples | Opera seria, 3 acts. |
| Sarro (Sarri) |
Domenico | 1679 - 1744 | Didone abbandonata | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 1 February 1724, Carnival, Teatro S. Bartolomeo, Naples | Opera seria, 3 acts. |
| Sarro (Sarri) |
Domenico | 1679-1744 | Siroe, re di Persia | Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
27 January 1727, Carnival, Teatro S. Bartolomeo, Naples. | Opera seria. 3 acts. |
| Sarro (Sarri) |
Domenico | 1679-1744 | Siroe, re di Persia | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 27 January 1727, Carnival, Teatro S. Bartolomeo, Naples. | Opera seria. 3 acts. |
| Scarlatti | Alessandro | 1660-1725 | Il Mitridate Eupatore | Girolamo Frigimelica Roberti |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
5 January 1707, Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo, Venice. | Opera seria. 5 acts. |
| Scarlatti | Alessandro | 1660-1725 | Tigrane | Domenico Lalli |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
16 February 1715, Teatro San Bartolomeo, Naples. | Opera seria. 3 acts. |
| Traetta | Tommaso | 1727-1779 | Antigona | Marco Coltellini |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
11 November 1772 | Opera |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Alessandro nell'Indie | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | Carnival, 1730, Rome | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Alessandro nell'Indie | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | Carnival, 1730, Rome | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Artaserse | Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
4 February 1730, Teatro delle Dame, Rome | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Artaserse | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | 4 February 1730, Teatro delle Dame, Rome | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Artaserse | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 4 February 1730, Teatro delle Dame, Rome | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Catone in Utica | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | Carnival, 1728, Teatro delle Dame, Rome | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Catone in Utica | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | Carnival, 1728, Teatro delle Dame, Rome | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Semiramide riconosciuta | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | Carnival, Rome, 1729 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Semiramide riconosciuta | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | Carnival, Rome, 1729 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Semiramide riconosciuta | Pietro Metastasio |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
Carnival, Rome, 1729 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Siroe, re di Persia | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | Opera. 3 acts. | |
| Vinci | Leonardo | 1690-1730 | Siroe, re di Persia | Pietro Metastasio | Progetto Metastasio | Carnival, 1726, Teatro Grimani, Venezia | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | L'Atenaide | Apostolo Zeno |
RAI 3 (PDF format) |
Opera | |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | Ercole sul Termodonte | Giacomo Francesco Bussani |
RAI 3 (PDF format) |
January 1723, Teatro Capranica, Rome | Opera |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | Farnace | Antonio Maria Lucchini |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
Carnival 1727, Venice | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | La fida ninfa, ossia Il giorno felice |
Scipione Maffei |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
6 January 1732, Teatro Filarmonico, Verona. | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | Griselda | Apostolo Zeno &Carlo Goldoni |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
18 May 1735, Teatro S. Samuele, Venice | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | L'Olimpiade | Pietro Metastasio | ubeda2004 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo, 17 February 1734 | Opera. 3 acts. |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | Orlando furioso | Ludovico Ariosto | RAI 3 (rtf format) | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Autumn 1727 | Opera |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | Orlando furioso | Ludovico Ariosto |
RAI 3 (PDF format) |
Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo, Autumn 1727 | Opera |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | La Senna Festeggiante | Domenico Lalli |
HAENDEL.IT (PDF format) |
Opera | |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | Teuzzone | Apostolo Zeno | Karadar | Mantova, Teatro Arciducale, Carnival 1719 | Opera |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | Teuzzone | Apostolo Zeno |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
Mantova, Teatro Arciducale, Carnival 1719 | Opera |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | Teuzzone | Apostolo Zeno | Stanford.edu | Mantova, Teatro Arciducale, Carnival 1719 | Opera |
| Vivaldi | Antonio Lucio | 1678-1741 | Tito Manlio | Matteo Noris | RAI 3 | Mantova, Teatro Arciducale, Carnival 1719 | Opera |
| Zingarelli | Nicola Antonio | 1752-1837 | Giulietta, e Romeo | Giuseppe Maria Foppa |
Libretti d'opera italiani (PDF format) |
30 January 1796, Teatro La Scala, Milan | Opera. Tragedy. 3 acts. |