# List of operas by Ferdinando Paer

This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer (1771–1839).

## List

| Title | Genre | Sub­divisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
| Orphée et Euridice (Paer) | play with songs | 1 act | Charles Pierre Duplessis after Ranieri de' Calzabigi and Alessandro Striggio figlio | 1791 | Parma, Court |
| Circe (also performed as Calypso) | opera | 3 acts | Domenico Perelli | carnival 1792 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele |
| Le astuzie amorose, o Il tempo fa giustizia a tutti (also performed as La locanda dei vagabondi) | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Antonio Brambilla | autumn 1792 | Parma, Teatro Ducale |
| I portenti del magnetismo | opera buffa | 2 acts | | carnival 1793 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| Icilio e Virginia | | 2 acts | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | June 1793 | Padua, Nuovo |
| Laodicea (also performed as Tegene e Laodicea) | | 3 acts | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | June 1793 | Padua, Nuovo |
| I pretendenti burlati | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Gian Carlo Grossardi | summer 1793 | Medesano, Teatrino |
| L'oro fa tutto (German: Geld ist die Lösung) | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Angelo Anelli | August 1793 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| Il nuovo Figaro (also performed as Il matrimonio di Figaro) | dramma giocoso | 4 acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte after Pierre Beaumarchais (originally written for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) | January 1794 | Parma, Teatro Ducale |
| Il matrimonio improvviso (also performed as I due sordi) | farsa | 1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 22 February 1794 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| I molinari | farsa | 1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | Carnival 1794 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| Il fornaro | farsa | 1 act | | carnival 1794 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| L'Idomeneo | dramma serio | 2 acts | Gaetano Sertor after Antoine Danchet | spring 1794 | Florence, Palla a Corda |
| Ero e Leandro | dramma | 2 acts | | 13 August 1794 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
| L'inganno in trionfo | intermezzo | 1 act | | 1794 | Florence, Palla a Corda |
| Una in bene e una in male (also performed as Le astuzie di Patacca) | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1794 | Rome, Valle |
| La Rossana | melodramma serio | 3 acts | Aurelio Aureli | carnival 1795 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
| Il Cinna | melodramma serio | 2 acts | Angelo Anelli | 13 June 1795 | Padua, Nuovo |
| Anna | opera buffa | 2 acts | | June 1795 | Padua, Nuovo |
| L'intrigo amoroso (also performed as Saed, ossia Gl'intrighi del serraglio and Il male vien dal buco) | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati | 4 December 1795 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| L'orfana riconosciuta | dramma giocoso | | | 2 April 1796 | Florence, Pergola |
| L'amante servitore | commedia in musica | 2 acts | Antonio Simeone Sografi | 26 December 1796 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| Il principe di Taranto (also performed as La contadina fortunata) | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Filippo Livigni | 11 February 1797 | Parma, Teatro Ducale |
| Il fanatico in Berlina | | | | 1797 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
| Griselda, ossia La virtù al cimento | dramma semiserio | 2 acts | Angelo Anelli after Giovanni Boccaccio | January 1798 | Parma, Teatro Ducale |
| Camilla, ossia Il sotteraneo | dramma semiserio | 3 acts | Giuseppe Carpani, after Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières' libretto Camille for Nicolas Dalayrac | 28 February 1799 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
| Il maestro di ballo | farsa | 1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | carnival 1799 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
| Il morto vivo | opera buffa | 2 acts | Carlo Prospero Defranceschi | 12 July 1799 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
| La testa riscaldata | farsa | 1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 20 January 1800 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto |
| La sonnambula | farsa | 1 act | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 15 February 1800 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto |
| Ginevra degli Almieri | opera tragicomica | 4 acts | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 2 September 1800 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
| Poche ma buone, ossia Le donne cambiate (German: Der lustige Schuster) | opera buffa | 2 acts | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 18 December 1800 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
| Achille | melodramma eroico | 2 acts | Giovanni De Gamerra, after Homer | 6 June 1801 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
| I fuorusciti di Firenze | opera semiseria | 2 acts | Angelo Anelli | 27 November 1802 | Dresden, Hoftheater |
| Sargino, ossia L'allievo dell'amore | dramma eroicomico | 2 acts | Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 26 May 1803 | Dresden, Hoftheater |
| Lodoiska | dramma eroico | 3 acts | Francesco Gonella after Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | summer 1804 | Bologna, Teatro Comunale |
| Leonora, ossia L'amore conjugale | dramma semiserio | 2 acts | Giovanni Schmidt, after Jean-Nicolas Bouilly's libretto Léonore for Pierre Gaveaux | 3 October 1804 | Dresden, Hoftheater |
| Sofonisba | dramma serio | 2 acts | Giovanni Schmidt | 19 May 1805 | Bologna, Corso |
| Il maniscalco | dramma giocoso | | | summer 1805 | Florence, Palla a Corda |
| Numa Pompilio | dramma serio | 3 acts | Pietro Bagnoli, after Matteo Noris | carnival 1808 | Paris, Tuileries |
| Cleopatra | | | | 1808 | Paris |
| Diana e Endimione, ossia Il ritardo | intermezzo | | Stefano Vestris | autumn 1809 | Paris, Tuileries |
| Agnese | dramma semiserio | 2 acts | Luigi Buonavoglia after Filippo Casari | October 1809 | Parma, Villa Douglas-Scotti, Ponte d'Attaro |
| La Didone abbandonata | melodramma serio | 2 acts | Metastasio | 1810 | Paris, Tuileries |
| Un pazzo ne fa cento | opera buffa | 2 acts | | autumn 1812 | Florence, Pergola |
| I Baccanti | opera seria | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi | 7 January 1813 | Paris, Tuileries |
| Poche ma buone, ossia La moglie ravveduta | farsa comica | 1 act | Giovanni De Gamerra | summer 1813 | Rome, Valle |
| L'oriflamme (written in collaboration with Henri-Montan Berton, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Étienne Méhul) | opéra | 1 act | Charles-Guillaume Etienne and Louis-Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian | 1 February 1814 | Paris, Opéra |
| Oro non compra amore | opera buffa | 2 acts | | 1814 | Pavia, Quattro Signori |
| L'eroismo in amore | melodramma serio | 2 acts | Luigi Romanelli | 26 December 1815 | Milan, La Scala |
| La primavera felice | opera giocosa | 1 act | Luigi Balocchi | 5 July 1816 | Paris, Italien |
| Le maître de chapelle, ou Le souper imprévu | opéra comique | 2 acts | Sophie Gay, after Alexandre Duval | 29 March 1821 | Paris, Théâtre Feydeau |
| Blanche de Provence, ou La cour des fées (written in collaboration with Henri-Montan Berton, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Luigi Cherubini and Rodolphe Kreutzer) | opéra | 3 acts | Emmanuel Théaulon and Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé | 1 May 1821 | Paris, Tuileries |
| La marquise de Brinvilliers (written in collaboration with Daniel Auber, Désiré-Alexandre Batton, Henri-Montan Berton, Giuseppe Felice Blangini, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Michele Carafa, Luigi Cherubini and Ferdinand Hérold) | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Castile-Blaze | 31 October 1831 | Paris, Opéra-Comique (Salle Ventadour) |
| Un caprice de femme | opéra comique | 1 act | Jean-Pierre Lesguillon | 23 July 1834 | Paris, Opéra-comique (Salle de la Bourse) |

## Sources

* Budden, Julian (1992), 'Paer, Ferdinando' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7