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|{{Hs|Admiral}}''Der Admiral''||||German||||||{{Hs|0000-00-00}}never performed<ref>Becker (1980), 246</ref>|||| |
|{{Hs|Admiral}}''Der Admiral, oder das verlorne Prozess''||comic opera||German||||||{{Hs|0000-00-00}}never performed<ref>Becker (1980), 246</ref>|||| |
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|''[[Jephtas Gelübde]]''||||German||3 acts||{{Hs|Schreiber}} |
|''[[Jephtas Gelübde]]''||||German||3 acts||{{Hs|Schreiber}}Aloys Schreiber, based on biblical story of [[Jephthah]]||{{Hs|1812-12-23}}{{Nowrap|23 December 1812}}||[[Bavarian State Opera|Hoftheater]], Munich|| |
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|''Wirth und Gast, oder Aus Scherz Ernst''||||German||2 acts||||{{Hs|1813-01-06}}6 January 1813||Stuttgart||Produced in Vienna in 1814 as ''Alimelek, oder Die beiden Kalifen'' |
|''Wirth und Gast, oder Aus Scherz Ernst''||Lustspiel mit Gesang||German||2 acts||{{Hs|Wollbrück}} J. S. Wollbrück||{{Hs|1813-01-06}}6 January 1813||Stuttgart||Produced in Vienna in 1814 as ''Alimelek, oder Die beiden Kalifen'' |
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|{{Hs|Brandenburger}}''Das Brandenburger Tor''||||German||1 act||||{{Hs|1814-00-00}}1814||Berlin|| |
|{{Hs|Brandenburger}}''Das Brandenburger Tor''||[[Singspiel]]||German||1 act||{{Hs|Veith}} S. Veith||{{Hs|1814-00-00}}1814||Berlin|| |
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|''Romilda e Costanza''||||Italian||||{{Hs|Rossi}}[[Gaetano Rossi]]||{{Hs|1817-07-19}}19 July 1817||Padua|| |
|''Romilda e Costanza''||||Italian||||{{Hs|Rossi}}[[Gaetano Rossi]]||{{Hs|1817-07-19}}19 July 1817||Padua|| |
Revision as of 07:13, 30 June 2012
The following is a list of operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864).
Title | Genre | Language | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première | Theatre | Notes |
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Der Admiral, oder das verlorne Prozess | comic opera | German | never performed[1] | ||||
Jephtas Gelübde | German | 3 acts | Aloys Schreiber, based on biblical story of Jephthah | 23 December 1812 | Hoftheater, Munich | ||
Wirth und Gast, oder Aus Scherz Ernst | Lustspiel mit Gesang | German | 2 acts | J. S. Wollbrück | 6 January 1813 | Stuttgart | Produced in Vienna in 1814 as Alimelek, oder Die beiden Kalifen |
Das Brandenburger Tor | Singspiel | German | 1 act | S. Veith | 1814 | Berlin | |
Romilda e Costanza | Italian | Gaetano Rossi | 19 July 1817 | Padua | |||
Semiramide riconosciuta | Italian | Gaetano Rossi, after Metastasio.[2] | March 1819 | Teatro Regio, Turin | |||
Emma di Resburgo | Italian | Gaetano Rossi | 26 June 1819 | Teatro San Benedetto, Venice | |||
Margherita d'Anjou | melodramma semiserio | Italian | 2 acts | Felice Romani | 14 November 1820 | Milan | |
L'Almanzore | Italian | ? | Probably composed 1820–21 intended for Rome but unperformed there. While it is believed to have been unfinished it is also possible that it is an earlier version of L'esule di Granata | ||||
L'esule di Granata | melodramma | Italian | 2 acts | Felice Romani | 12 March 1822 | La Scala, Milan | |
Il crociato in Egitto | Italian | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi | 7 March 1824 | La Fenice, Venice | Frequently revised by Meyerbeer | |
Ines de Castro | melodramma tragico[3] | Italian | Salvatore Cammarano[4] | unwritten | Commissioned by Teatro San Carlo, Naples, for 1826, but never completed.[5][6] | ||
Robert le diable | grand opera | French | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe and Casimir Delavigne | 21 November 1831 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier | |
Les Huguenots | grand opera | French | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps | 29 February 1836 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier | Sometimes staged during the 19th century under other titles such as The Guelfs and the Ghibellines or The Anglicans and the Puritans (see the article on the opera) |
Ein Feldlager in Schlesien | Singspiel | German | 3 acts | Ludwig Rellstab after Eugène Scribe | 7 December 1844 | Hofoper, Berlin | Revised as Vielka, Vienna, 18 February 1847 |
Le prophète | grand opera | French | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe | 16 April 1849 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier | |
L'étoile du nord | opéra comique | French | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 16 February 1854 | Opéra-Comique, Paris | Partly based on the earlier Feldlager in Schlesien, revised in Italian, London, Covent Garden, 19 July 1855 |
Le pardon de Ploërmel (or Dinorah) | opéra comique | French | 3 acts | Jules Barbier and Michel Carré | 4 April 1859 | Opéra-Comique, Paris | Revised in Italian as Dinorah, Covent Garden, London, 26 July 1859 |
L'Africaine | grand opera | French | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe | 28 April 1865 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier | Performed posthumously |
Notes and sources
- Notes
- Sources
- Becker, Heinz (1980). "Meyerbeer [Meyer Beer], Giacomo [Jakob Liebmann]". In Sadie, Stanley, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 12, 246–256. London: Macmillan
- Becker, Heinz and Gudrun, tr. Mark Violette (1989). Giacomo Meyerbeer, a Life in Letters. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 0-7470-0230-4.
- Huebner, Steven (1992). "Meyerbeer, Giacomo". In Sadie, Stanley, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4: 366–371. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-228-9.
- Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1960-2006). Briefwechsel und Tagebücher (8 vols.). Berlin and New York: de Gruyter.