# List of operas by Francesco Bianchi

This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Francesco Bianchi (1752–1810).
Bianchi had an extraordinarily varied career, working in different places, in different styles with different collaborators. Not only did he work in Italy, in Venice, Naples, Florence, Rome, Milan, Turin, Bologna, Brescia, Cremona, and Padua, but also extensively in Paris and London.
Although he wrote 41 'serious' drammi per musica (opera seria), he also composed 16 opéras comiques and 14 opere buffe, as well as one each of works designated as azione scenica, azione teatrale, drame héroïque, drame lyrique, festa teatrale, and opera giocosa.

## List

| Title | Genre | Sub­divisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre | Notes |
| Giulio Sabino | dramma per musica | | | 1772 | Cremona | |
| Il gran Cidde | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Gioacchino Pizzi after Pierre Corneille | 27 January 1773 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | |
| Demetrio | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | Carnival 1774 | Cremona | |
| Eurione | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Antonio Papi | 25 May 1775 | Pavia, Teatro Quattro Signori | |
| La réduction de Paris | drame lyrique | 3 acts | Barnabé Farmian de Rosoi | 30 September 1775 | Paris, Théâtre des Italiens | |
| Le mort marié | opéra comique | 2 acts | Michel-Jean Sedaine | 25 October 1776 | Fontainebleau, Théâtre Royal de la Cour | |
| Erifile | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra | 29 January 1779 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | |
| L'innocenza perseguitata | opera buffa | 3 acts | | Carnival 1779 | Rome, Teatro delle Dame | |
| Castore e Polluce | dramma per musica | 4 acts | Carlo Innocenzo Frugoni, after Pierre-Joseph Bernhard's Castor et Pollux | 10 January 1779 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | second version in 3 acts, performed on 8 September 1779 |
| Il Demetrio | dramma per musica | 2 acts (26 scenes) | | 3 January 1780 | Venice, Teatro (Gallo) San Benedetto | |
| Arbace | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Gaetano Sertor | 20 January 1781 | Naples, Real Teatro di San Carlo | |
| Venere e Adone | azione teatrale | 2 acts | Ferdinando Casori | 14 September 1781 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | |
| Zemira | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Gaetano Sertor | 4 November 1781 | Naples, Real Teatro di San Carlo | 2nd version: Padua 1786 |
| L'Olimpiade | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 26 December 1781 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala | |
| Il trionfo della pace | festa teatrale | 2 acts | Cesare Olivieri | 16 April 1782 | Turin, Teatro Regio | |
| La Zulima | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Carlo Olivieri, after Voltaire | 4 November 1782 | Naples, Real Teatro di San Carlo | |
| Medonte | dramma per musica | 2 acts | | 14 November 1782 | London, King's Theatre in the Haymarket | pasticcio containing music by many hands incl. Bianchi, but principally Giuseppe Sarti |
| L'astrologa | opera buffa | 3 acts | Pietro Chiari | December 1782 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo | |
| Piramo e Tisbe | dramma per musica | 3 acts (32 scenes) | Gaetano Sertor | 7 January 1783 | Venice, Teatro La Fenice | |
| Briseide | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Francesco Sebastiano Gambino | 27 December 1783 | Turin, Teatro Regio | |
| Aspardi, principe di Battriano | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Gaetano Sertor | Carnival 1784 | Rome, Teatro delle Dame | |
| Cajo Mario | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Gaetano Roccaforte | 30 May 1784 | Naples, Real Teatro di San Carlo | |
| La villanella rapita | opera giocosa | 2 acts | Filippo Livigni | 29 August 1784 | Süttör, Eszterháza Theater | Re-staged on 28 November 1785, Vienna, at the Burgtheater, with the vocal terzetto "Mandina amabile" K. 480 and the vocal quartet "Dite almeno in che mancai?" K. 479 by Mozart – staged besides under the title of Le gelosie di Pippo in Lisbon in 1796 |
| La finta principessa | opera buffa | 2 acts | Filippo Livigni | autumn 1784 | Bologna, Teatro Formagliari | |
| Il disertore francese | dramma per musica | 3 acts (34 scenes) | Bartolomeo Benincasa | 26 December 1784 | Venice, Teatro (Gallo) San Benedetto | |
| Alessandro nell'Indie | dramma per musica | 3 acts (36 scenes) | Metastasio | 28 January 1785 | Venice, Teatro (Gallo) San Benedetto | |
| La stravagante inglese | opera buffa | 2 acts | Giovanni Greppi | autumn 1785 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | |
| Le villanelle astute | opera buffa | 2 acts | Giuseppe Foppa | Carnival 1786 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele | |
| Alonso e Cora | dramma per musica | 3 acts (24 scenes) | Giuseppe Foppa, after Ferdinando Moretti's libretto Idalide | 7 February 1786 | Venice, Teatro (Gallo) San Benedetto | |
| Mesenzio, re d'Etruria | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Ferdinando Casorri | 4 November 1786 | Naples, Real Teatro San Carlo | |
| L'orfano cinese | dramma per musica | 3 acts (29 scenes) | after Voltaire | 30 January 1787 | Venice, Teatro (Gallo) San Benedetto | |
| Artaserse | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 11 June 1787 | Padua, Teatro Nuovo | |
| Pizzarro | dramma per musica | 3 acts | | summer 1787 | Brescia, Accademia degli Erranti | |
| Scipione africano | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Nicolò Minato | 13 August 1787 | Naples, Real Teatro di San Carlo | |
| Il ritratto | opera buffa | 2 acts | Saverio Zini | autumn 1787 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo | |
| Calto | dramma per musica | 3 acts (23 scenes) | Giuseppe Foppa, after Ossian | 23 January 1788 | Venice, Teatro (Venier) San Benedetto | |
| La morte di Cesare | dramma per musica | 2 acts (29 scenes) | Gaetano Sertor, after Shakespeare's Julius Caesar | 27 December 1788 | Venice, Teatro (Grimani) San Samuele | |
| La fedeltà tra le selve | opera buffa | 2 acts | Michelangelo Prunetti | Carnival 1789 | Rome, Teatro Capranica | It includes 4 arias by Valentino Fioravanti |
| Nitteti | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 20 April 1789 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala | |
| Daliso e Delmita | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Giovanni de Gamerra | 12 June 1789 | Padua, Teatro Nuovo | |
| Il finto astrologo | opera buffa | 2 acts | Angelo Mariani | Carnival 1790 | Rome, Teatro Capranica | |
| L'Arminio | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Ferdinando Moretti | 6 September 1790 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | |
| La vendetta di Nino, o sia Semiramide | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Pietro Giovannini, after Voltaire | 12 November 1790 | Naples, Real Teatro San Carlo | second version in 2 acts, 1794, London, King’s Theater in the Haymarket |
| Caio Ostilio | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Eustachio Manfredi | Carnival 1791 | Rome, Teatro Argentina | |
| La dama bizzarra | opera buffa | 2 acts | Tommaso Mariani | Carnival 1791 | Rome, Teatro Capranica | |
| Deifile | azione scenica | 2 acts | | March 1791 | Venice, Palazzo Brünner | |
| La sposa in equivoco | opera buffa | 2 acts | Saverio Zini | autumn 1791 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | |
| Seleuco, re di Siria | dramma per musica | 3 acts (29 scenes) | Mattia Botturini, after Antioco by Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati | 26 December 1791 | Venice, Teatro (Venier) San Benedetto | |
| Aci e Galatea | dramma per musica | 2 acts (28 scenes) | Giuseppe Foppa | 13 October 1792 | Venice, Teatro (Venier) San Benedetto | revision 1795 London, King's Theater in the Haymarket |
| Tarara, o sia La virtù premiata | dramma per musica | 3 acts (30 scenes) | Gaetano Sertor | 26 December 1792 | Venice, Teatro La Fenice | |
| Il cinese in Italia | opera buffa | 2 acts | Alessandro Pepoli | autumn 1793 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | staged also under the title of L'olandese in Venice in Turin in 1794 |
| La secchia rapita | opera buffa | 2 acts | Angelo Anelli | 13 February 1794 | Venice, Teatro (Grimani) San Samuele) | revision 1796 Milan with a new act by Zingarelli |
| Ines de Castro | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Luigi de Sanctis, after Cosimo Giotti | 30 May 1794 | Naples, Real Teatro di San Carlo | Revised version in 3 acts (35 scenes), 14 October 1795, Venice, Teatro (Venier) San Benedetto |
| La capricciosa ravveduta | opera buffa | 2 acts | Caterino Mazzolà | autumn 1794 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | |
| Antigona | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte | 24 May 1796 | London, King's Theatre in the Haymarket | |
| Il consiglio imprudente | opera buffa | 1 act | Lorenzo Da Ponte, after Carlo Goldoni | 20 December 1796 | London, King's Theatre in the Haymarket | |
| Merope | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte, after Voltaire | 10 June 1797 | London, King's Theatre in the Haymarket | |
| Cinna | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte, after Angelo Anelli? | 20 February 1798 | London, King's Theatre in the Haymarket | |
| Alzira | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi, after Voltaire | 28 February 1801 | London, King's Theatre in the Haymarket | |
| La morte di Cleopatra | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Serafino Buonaiuti | 30 April 1801 | London, King's Theater in the Haymarket | |
| Armida | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte, after Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata | 1 June 1802 | London, King's Theatre in the Haymarket | |
| L'avaro | opéra comique | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati | 30 March 1804 | Paris, Théâtre des Italiens | |
| Blaisot et Pasquin | opéra comique | 1 act | Alexandre-Joseph Leroy de Bacre, Francis d'Allarde, and Martinelli | 9 April 1804 | Paris, Théâtre Montansier (Salle de l'Opéra Bouffe) | |
| Le maître de chapelle | opéra comique | | | 3 May 1804 | Paris, Théâtre des Italiens | |
| Corali, ou La lanterne magique | opéra comique | 1 act | André Joseph Grétry, neveu | 7 July 1804 | Paris, Théâtre Molière | |
| L'eau et le feu, ou Le gascon à l'épreuve | opéra comique | 1 act | Charles Gaugiran-Nanteuil | 10 August 1804 | Paris, Théâtre Montansier-Variétés (Variétés-Montansier, galeries du Palais-Royal) | |
| Le contrat signé d'avance, ou Laquelle est ma femme? | opéra comique | 1 act | F. Ligier | 29 September 1804 | Paris, Théâtre Molière | |
| Le gascon, gascon malgré lui | opéra comique | 1 act | P. Guillet and Eugène Hus | 17 November 1804 | Paris, Théâtre Molière | |
| Amour et coquetterie | opéra comique | 1 act | André-Jacques Coffin-Rony | 7 January 1806 | Paris, Théâtre des Jeunes-Élèves | |
| Le livre des destins | opéra comique | 1 act | Félix Nogaret | 2 February 1806 | Paris, Théâtre des Jeunes-Élèves | |
| La famille venitienne, ou Le château d'Orseno | opéra comique | 3 acts | Frédéric Dupetit-Méré | 7 May 1806 | Paris, Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes (rue de Bondy) | |
| Monsieur Jugolo, ou Les chercheurs | opéra comique | 1 act | | 22 May 1806 | Paris, Théâtre des Jeunes-Élèves | |
| Le château mystérieux, ou Le crime commis et vengé | opéra comique | 3 acts | Maxime de Redon and Charles Rivière Defresnoy | 12 July 1806 | Paris, Théâtre des Jeunes-Élèves | |
| Le triomphe d'Alcide à Athènes | drame héroïque | 2 acts | Pierre-Louis Moline and Adrien-Firmin Pillon | September 1806 | Paris, Théâtre Molière | |
| La soeur officieuse, ou Addresse et mensonge | opéra comique | 1 act | Maxime de Redon and Charles Rivière Defresnoy | 18 October 1806 | Paris, Théâtre des Jeunes-Élèves | |
| Almeria, ou L'écossaise fugitive | opéra comique | 3 acts | Marie-Adélaïde Barthélemy-Hadot | 8 December 1806 | Paris, Théâtre des Jeunes-Élèves | |
| Les illustres infortunés, ou La souveraine vindicative | opéra comique | 3 acts | Maxime de Redon and Charles Rivière Defresnoy | 8 January 1807 | Paris, Théâtre des Jeunes-Élèves | |
| Le pied de boeuf et la queue du chat | opéra comique | 3 acts | Pierre-Joseph Charrin and Maxime de Redon | 9 June 1807 | Paris, Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes (rue de Bondy) | |

## Doubtful operas

* Mitridate (1781, Genova)
* Attalo, re di Bitinia (1783, Venice)
* Demofoonte (1783, Venice)
* La caccia di Enrico IV (1784, Venice)
* Il barone a forza (1785, Rome)
* Li sposi in commedia (1785, Venice)
* Il nuovo Don Chischiotte (1788, Voltri)
* Il gatto (1789, Brescia)
* La calamità dei cuori (1789, Padua)
* Il difensore (1793–94, Vienna)
* Zenobia (1797, London)
* Telemaco (v. 1800, Cremona)
* Vonima e Mitridate (1803, Venice)

## Isolated songs

Surviving play-texts suggest that Bianchi contributed isolated numbers to La premiere représentation by Pierre-Joseph Charrin, first performed at the Théâtre des Nouveaux Troubadours in Paris on 20 September 1806; and to Collin d'Harleville aux Champs-Élysées by Joseph Aude, Décour and Defrénoy, first given in Paris on 20 March 1806. He is also credited as having arranged the music, previously chosen by the author, for Les Sirènes by Jean-Baptiste-Augustin Hapdé, first performed at the Théâtre des Jeunes-Artistes on 24 January 1807.