# List of operas by Gaspare Spontini

Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851) wrote operas from the last decade of the 18th century to the third decade of the 19th century.
Before leaving Italy, where he was born, he wrote:
* Li puntigli delle donne
* Adelina Senese o sia l'Amore secreto
* Il finto pittore
* L'eroismo ridicolo [scores]
* Il Teseo riconosciuto
* La finta filosofa
* La fuga in maschera
* I quadri parlanti
* Gli Elisi delusi
* Gli amanti in cimento, o sia Il geloso audace
* Le metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo
For Paris, he wrote:
* La petite maison
* Milton
* Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs
* La vestale
* Fernand Cortez, ou La conquête du Mexique
* Pélage, ou Le roi et la paix
* Les dieux rivaux, ou Les fêtes de Cythère
* Olimpie
First presented in Berlin:
* Nurmahal, oder das Rosenfest von Caschmir
* Alcidor
* Agnes von Hohenstaufen
Operas by Gaspare Spontini :
| Title | Genre | Sub­divisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
| Li puntigli delle donne | farsetta per musica | 2 acts | unknown | Carnival 1796 | Florence, Regio Teatro degli Intrepidi |
| Adelina Senese o sia l'Amore secreto | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati, after his libretto La principessa d'Amalfi for Joseph Weigl | 10 October 1797 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele |
| Il finto pittore | farsetta/melodramma buffo? | unknown | unknown | 1797/1798; 1800 | Rome (?); Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia |
| L'eroismo ridicolo | farsa per musica | 1 act | Domenico Piccinni | Carnival 1798 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo |
| Il Teseo riconosciuto | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Cosimo Giotti | 22 May 1798 | Florence, Regio Teatro degli Intrepidi |
| La finta filosofa | commedia per musica | 2 acts | Domenico Piccinni | 1 July 1799 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo |
| La fuga in maschera | commedia per musica | 2 acts | Giuseppe Palomba | Carnival 1800 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo |
| I quadri parlanti | melodramma buffo | unknown | unknown | 1800 | Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia |
| Gli Elisi delusi | melodramma buffo | 2 acts | Michelangelo Monti | 28 August 1800 | Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia |
| Gli amanti in cimento, o sia Il geloso audace | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati | 3 November 1801 | Rome, Teatro Valle |
| Le metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo | farsa giocosa per musica | 1 act | Giuseppe Foppa | Carnival 1802 | Venice, Teatro Giustiniani in San Moisè |
| La petite maison | opéra comique | 3 acts | Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Nicolas Gersin | 12 May 1804 | Paris, Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau |
| Milton | fait historique | 1 act | Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy | 27 November 1804 | Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart |
| Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs | comédie en prose, mêlée de chants | 1 act | Antoine Gabriel Jars | 12 March 1805 | Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart |
| La vestale | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Monumenti antichi inediti (1767) | 15 December 1807 | Paris, Opéra |
| Fernand Cortez, ou La conquête du Mexique; third and fourth versions, in German, as Fernand Cortez oder Die Eroberung von Mexiko | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy and Joseph-Alphonse d'Esménard, after Alexis Piron; second version: revised by Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy; third version: revised by Emmanuel Théaulon, translated by J. C. May; fourth version: revised by Karl August von Lichtenstein | 28 November 1809; second version: 28 May 1817; third version: 6 April 1824; fourth version: 26 February 1832 | Paris, Opéra (first and second versions); Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (third and fourth versions) |
| Pélage, ou Le roi et la paix | opéra | 2 acts | Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy | 23 August 1814 | Paris, Opéra |
| Les dieux rivaux, ou Les fêtes de Cythère (Together with Rudolphe Kreutzer, Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis and Henri Montan Berton) | opéra-ballet | 1 act | Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut | 21 June 1816 | Paris, Opéra |
| Olimpie; second version, in German, as Olimpia; third version, again in French, as Olimpie | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut, after Voltaire; second version translated and revised by E. T. A. Hoffmann | 22 December 1819; second version: 14 May 1821; third version: 28 February 1826 | Paris, Opéra (first and third versions); Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (second version) |
| Nurmahal, oder das Rosenfest von Caschmir | lyrisches Drama mit Ballet | 2 acts | Carl Alexander Herklots, after Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh | 27 May 1822 | Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus |
| Alcidor | Zauberoper mit Ballet | 3 acts | Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume Théaulon de Lambert and C. Nutty, after Rochon de Chabannes; German translation by Carl Alexander Herklots | 23 May 1825 (to celebrate the marriage of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands and Princess Louise of Prussia on 21 May 1825) | Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus |
| Agnes von Hohenstaufen | lyrisches Drama | 3 acts | Ernst Raupach (first and second versions); revised by Karl August von Lichtenstein and the composer (third version) | 28 May 1827 (first version, consisting of the first act only); 12 June 1829 (second version in 3 acts); 6 December 1837 (third version in 3 acts) | Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (all versions) |
* Notes
* 1 2 3 Manuscript score rediscovered in 2016
* ↑ originally planned for 2 acts