List of operas by Amilcare Ponchielli
This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Amilcare Ponchielli (1834–1886).
Opus | Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première | Place, Theatre |
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2 | I promessi sposi | melodramma | 4 acts | Giuseppe Aglio and Cesare Stradivari after Alessandro Manzoni | 30 August 1856; revised: 5 December 1872 | Cremona, Teatro Concordia; revised: Milan, Teatro Dal Verme |
3 | Bertrando dal Bormio | 4 acts | composed in 1858, scheduled for Turin but unperformed | |||
4 | La Savoiarda (revised as Lina) | dramma lirico | 3 acts | Francesco Guidi | 19 January 1861; revised: 17 November 1877 | Cremona, Teatro Concordia, revised: Milan, Teatro Dal Verme |
Roderigo re dei Goti | 3 acts | Francesco Guidi | 26 December 1863 | Piacenza, Teatro Municipale | ||
6 | Il parlatore eterno | scherzo comico | 1 act | Antonio Ghislanzoni | 18 October 1873 | Lecco, Teatro Sociale |
7 | I Lituani | dramma lirico | 3 acts | Antonio Ghislanzoni | 7 March 1874; revised: 6 March 1875 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala (both versions) |
8 | I Mori di Valenza | dramma lirico | 4 acts | Antonio Ghislanzoni | begun by the composer in 1874, completed by Annibale Ponchielli and Arturo Cadore; 17 March 1914 | Monte Carlo, Opéra |
9 | La Gioconda | dramma lirico | 4 acts | Tobia Gorrio (pseudonym/anagram of Arrigo Boito) after Victor Hugo's drama Angelo, tyran de Padoue (1835) | 8 April 1876; revised: 18 October 1876; revised: 27 November 1879 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala; revised: Venice, Rossini; revised: Genoa, Politeama Genovese |
10 | Il figliuol prodigo | melodramma | 4 acts | Angelo Zanardini | 26 December 1880 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
11 | Marion Delorme | melodramma | 4 acts | Enrico Golisciani | 17 March 1885 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
References
- Sources
- Budden, Julien (1992), 'Ponchielli, Amilcare' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
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Amilcare Ponchielli
List of operas
- I Lituani (1874)
- I Mori di Valenza (1874)
- La Gioconda (1876)
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