List of operas by Cherubini

This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian-born composer Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842) who spent much of his working life in France.

In terms of genre, Cherubini's output included 11 opere serie and 10 opéras comiques, as well as three intermezzi, three tragédies lyriques, two opere buffe, and one each of the following: comédie héroïque, comédie lyrique, comédie mêlée d'ariettes, drame lyrique, dramma lirico, opéra bouffon, and opéra-ballet.

List

Title	Genre	Sub­divisions	Libretto	Première date	Place, theatre
Amore artigiano	intermezzo	unknown	unknownlibrettist unknown	1773-10-2222 October 1773	Fiesole, Teatro San Domenico
giocatoreIl giocatore	intermezzo	unknown	unknownlibrettist unknown and score lost	1775-00-00 composed 1775?	Florence
(untitled)	intermezzo	unknown	unknownlibrettist unknown	1778-02-1616 February 1778	Florence, Serviti
Quinto1Il Quinto Fabio	opera seria	3 acts	ZenoApostolo Zeno	1780-09-30Autumn 1779	Alessandria, Teatro Paglia
Armida abbandonata	opera seria	3 acts	VitturiBartolomeo Vitturi, based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata	1782-01-2525 January 1782	Florence, La Pergola
Adriano in Siria	opera seria	3 acts	Metastasio	1782-04-1616 April 1782	Livorno, Teatro Armeni
Mesenzio, re d'Etruria	opera seria	3 acts	CasoriFerdinando Casor(r)i	1782-09-066 September 1782	Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Quinto2Il Quinto Fabio (second version)	opera seria	3 acts	ZenoApostolo Zeno	1783-01-00January 1783	Rome, Teatro Argentina
sposoLo sposo di tre e marito di nessuno	opera buffa	2 acts	LivigniFilippo Livigni	1783-11-00November 1783	Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Olimpiade	opera seria	33 acts?	Metastasio	1783-12-991783	Venice?
AllessandroL'Allessandro nelle Indie	opera seria	2 acts	Metastasio	1784-04-00April 1784	Mantua, Teatro Nuovo Regio Ducale
IdalideL'Idalide	opera seria	2 acts	MorettiFerdinando Moretti	1784-12-2626 December 1784	Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Demetrio	opera seria	04 pieces only	Metastasio	1785-00-001785	London, King's Theatre
fintaLa finta principessa	opera buffa	2 acts	LivigniFilippo Livigni	1785-04-022 April 1785	London, King's Theatre
Il Giulio Sabino	opera seria	2 acts	unknownlibrettist unknown	1786-03-3030 March 1786	London, King's Theatre
Ifigenia in Aulide	opera seria	3 acts	MorettiFerdinando Moretti, after François Louis Gaud Lebland Du Roullet	1788-01-1212 January 1788	Turin, Teatro Regio
Démophoon	tragédie lyrique	3 acts	MarmonteJean-François Marmontel, after Metastasio	1788-12-022 December 1788	Paris, Opéra (Porte Saint-Martin)
Lodoïska	comédie héroïque	3 acts	FilletteClaude-François Fillette-Loraux after Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrais Les Amours du Chevalier Faublas	1791-07-1818 July 1791	Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
Koukourgi (composed 1792-93[1])	opéra comique	3 acts	Honoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier	2010-09-1818 September 2010	Klagenfurt, Stadttheater Klagenfurt
congresLe congrès des rois (together with Henri Montan Berton, Frédéric Blasius, Nicolas Dalayrac, Prosper-Didier Deshayes, François Devienne, André Grétry, Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Étienne Méhul, Jean-Pierre Solié and Armand-Emmanuel Trial)	comédie mêlée d'ariettes	3 acts	Desmaillot (Antoine-François Eve)	1794-02-2626 February 1794	Paris, Opéra-Comique (Favart)
Eliza, ou Le voyage aux glaciers du Mont Saint Bernard	opéra comique	2 acts	ReveronyJacques-Antoine Révérony de Saint-Cyr	1794-12-1313 December 1794	Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
Médée	opéra comique	3 acts	HoffmannFrançois-Benoît Hoffmann and Nicolas Étienne Framéry, after Euripides and Pierre Corneille	1797-03-13first version: 13 March 1797[2]	Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
HotellerieL'hôtellerie portugaise	opéra comique	1 act	Saint-AignanEtienne Saint-Aignan	1798-07-2525 July 1798	Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
punitionLa punition	opéra comique	1 act	DesfaucheresJean-Louis Brousse Desfaucheres	1799-02-2323 February 1799	Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
prisionniereLa prisionnière	opéra comique	1 act	JouyEtienne de Jouy, Charles de Longchamps and Claude Godard d'Aucort de Saint-Just	1799-09-1212 September 1799	Paris, Théâtre Montansier
deuxLes deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eau	comédie lyrique	3 acts	BouillyJean-Nicolas Bouilly	1800-01-1616 January 1800	Paris, Théâtre Feydeau
Épicure (with Méhul)	opéra comique	3 acts, revised as 2 acts	DesmoustierCharles-Albert Desmoustier	1800-03-1414 March 1800	Paris, Opéra-Comique (Favart)
Anacréon ou L'amour fugitif	opéra-ballet	2 acts	MendouzeC. R. Mendouze	1803-10-044 October 1803	Paris, Opéra (Théâtre des Arts)
Faniska	opéra comique	3 acts	SonnleitnerJoseph von Sonnleitner after René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt	1806-02-2525 February 1806	Vienna, Theater am Kärntnertor
Pimmalione	dramma lirico	1 act	VestrisStefano Vestris, after Antonio Simone Sografi's Italian version of Pygmalion by Jean-Jacques Rousseau	1809-11-3030 November 1809	Paris, Tuileries
crescendoLe crescendo	opéra bouffon	1 act	BassompierreCharles-Augustine de Bassompierre de Sewrin	1810-09-011 September 1810	Paris, Opéra-Comique (Feydeau)
AbenceragesLes Abencérages, ou L'étendard de Grenade	tragédie lyrique	3 acts	JouyVictor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after François-René de Chateaubriand, based on Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's novel Gonsalve de Cordoue	1813-04-066 April 1813	Paris, Opéra (Théâtre des Arts)
Bayard à Mézières	opéra comique	1 act	DupatyEmmanuel Dupaty and René de Chazet	1814-02-1212 February 1814	Paris, Opéra-Comique (Feydeau)
Blanche de Provence, ou La cour de fées' (composed with Henri Montan Berton, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Ferdinando Paer)	opéra comique	3 acts	TheaulonEmmanuel Théaulon and Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé	1821-05-011 May 1821	Paris, Tuileries
marquiseLa marquise de Brinvilliers (composed in collaboration with Daniel Auber, Désiré-Alexandre Batton, Henri Montan Berton, Felice Blangini, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Michele Carafa, Ferdinand Hérold and Ferdinando Paer)	drame lyrique	3 acts	ScribeEugène Scribe and Castil-Blaze (François-Henri-Joseph Blaze)	1831-10-3131 October 1831	Paris, Opéra-Comique (Ventadour)
Ali Baba, ou Les quarante voleurs	tragédie lyrique	41Prologue and 4 acts	ScribeEugène Scribe and Mélesville	1833-07-2222 July 1833	Paris, Opéra (Salle Le Peletier)

References

Notes

1. Koukourgi (1792–93)" at Boosey & Hawkes
2. Italian translation, as Medea: 6 November 1802, Vienna; in 1809, Cherubini cut about 500 bars for a shortened version, also for Vienna.

Sources

• Willis, Stephen C (1992), "Cherubini, Luigi" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
• Some of the information in this article is taken from the related Dutch Wikipedia article.