This is a complete list of operas by Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). He claimed to have composed 94 operas, but fewer than 50 titles have been identified, of which the scores of only 20 or so survive, wholly or in part. Moreover, the practice of reviving works under a different title and of creating pasticci has confused musicologists.
All of Vivaldi's operatic works are described as dramma per musica, roughly equivalent to opera seria.
Key: music completely lost; music preserved (at least in part)
51 items are listed.
| + Operas by Antonio Vivaldi | |||||||
| RV | Title | Libretto | Premiere | Notes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date | Venue | ||||||
| 1 | 729 | Ottone in villa | Domenico Lalli | 17 May 1713 | Vicenza, | ||
| 2 | 727 | Orlando finto pazzo | Grazio Braccioli | November 1714 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 3 | 819 | Orlando furioso | Grazio Braccioli | 9 November 1714 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | part survives in manuscript, parts later reworked in RV 728 q.v. | |
| 4 | 724 | Nerone fatto Cesare | Matteo Noris | Carnival 1715 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | pasticcio (Francesco Gasparini, Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, Vivaldi) | |
| 5 | 706 | La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii | Antonio Marchi | Carnival 1716 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | reworked as Artabano, re dei Parti (RV 701) in 1718, then as Doriclea (RV 708) in 1732 | |
| 6 | 700 | Arsilda, regina di Ponto | Domenico Lalli | 27 or 28 October 1716 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 7 | 719 | L'incoronazione di Dario | Adriano Morselli | 23 January 1717 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 8 | 737 | Tieteberga | Antonio Maria Lucchini | 16 October 1717 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | ||
| 9 | Anh 58 | Il vinto trionfante del vincitore | Antonio Marchi | Autumn 1717 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | pasticcio, possibly with some music by Vivaldi | |
| 10 | 701 | Artabano, re dei Parti | Antonio Marchi | Carnival 1718 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè | reworking of La costanza trionfante (RV 706) | |
| 11 | 699 | Armida al campo d'Egitto | Giovanni Palazzi | Carnival 1718 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè. Further performances in Venice on 26 December 1730 and 12 February 1738. | reworked as Gl’inganni per vendetta (RV 720) in 1720 | |
| 12 | 732 | Scanderbeg | Antonio Salvi | 22 June 1718 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | ||
| 13 | 736 | Teuzzone | Apostolo Zeno | Mantua, Teatro Arciducale | |||
| 14 | 738 | Tito Manlio | Matteo Noris | Carnival 1719 | Mantua, Teatro Arciducale | ||
| 15 | 778 | Tito Manlio | Matteo Noris | Carnival 1720 | Rome, Teatro della Pace | pasticcio. Act III only by Vivaldi. | |
| 16 | 704 | La Candace, o siano Li veri amici | Francesco Silvani and Domenico Lalli | Carnival 1720 | Mantua, Teatro Arciducale | ||
| 17 | 720 | Gl’inganni per vendetta | Giovanni Palazzi or Domenico Lalli | 1720 | Vicenza, Teatro delle Grazie[1] [2] | reworking of Armida al campo d’Egitto (RV 699) | |
| 18 | 739 | La verità in cimento | Giovanni Palazzi | 26 October (?) 1720 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 19 | 715 | Filippo re di Macedonia | Domenico Lalli | 27 December 1720 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | pasticcio | |
| 20 | 734 | La Silvia | Enrico Bissari | 28 August 1721 | Milan, Reggio Ducale | ||
| 21 | 710 | Ercole su'l Termodonte | Antonio Salvi | January 1723 | Rome, Teatro Capranica | ||
| 22 | 717 | Giustino | Nicolò Beregan / Pietro Pariati | Carnival 1724 | Rome, Teatro Capranica | ||
| 23 | 740 | La virtù trionfante dell’amore, e dell’odio, overo Il Tigrane | Francesco Silvani | Carnival 1724 | Rome, Teatro Capranica | pasticcio (only Act II by Vivaldi) | |
| 24 | 721 | L’inganno trionfante in amore | Matteo Noris | Autumn 1725 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 25 | 707 | Cunegonda | Agostino Piovene | 29 January 1726 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 26 | 712 | La fede tradita e vendicata | Francesco Silvani | 16 February 1726 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 27 | Anh 55 | La tirannia castigata | Francesco Silvani | Carnival 1726 | Prague, Sporck Theater | ||
| 28 | 709 | Dorilla in Tempe | Antonio Maria Lucchini | 9 November 1726 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | pasticcio | |
| 29 | 722 | Ipermestra | Antonio Salvi | 25 January 1727 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | For other versions, see Ipermestra | |
| 30 | 711 | Farnace | Antonio Maria Lucchini | 10 February 1727 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 31 | 735 | Siroe, re di Persia | Metastasio | Ascension 1727 | Reggio Emilia, Teatro Pubblico | ||
| 32 | 728 | Orlando furioso | Grazio Braccioli | Autumn 1727 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 33 | 730 | Rosilena ed Oronta | Giovanni Palazzi | Carnival 1728 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 34 | 702 | Atenaide | Apostolo Zeno | 29 December 1728 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | ||
| 35 | 697 | Argippo | Domenico Lalli | Autumn 1730 | Prague, Sporck Theater | seven arias were rediscovered in Regensburg by Ondrej Macek | |
| 36 | 696 | Alvilda regina de' Goti | Giulio Cesare Corradi | Spring 1731 | Prague, Sporck Theater | Treatment of Alf and Alfhild; only some arias by Vivaldi, probably from other operas. Transferred to the Anhang as RV Anh. 88 | |
| 37 | 733 | Semiramide | Francesco Silvani and Domenico Lalli | Carnival 1731 | Mantua, Teatro Arciducale | ||
| 38 | 714 | La fida ninfa | Francesco Scipione | Carnival 1732 | Verona, Teatro Filarmonico | ||
| 39 | 708 | Doriclea | Antonio Marchi | 1732 | Prague, Sporck Theater | reworking of La costanza trionfante (RV 706) | |
| 40 | 723 | Motezuma | Girolamo Alvise Giusti | 14 November 1733 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 41 | 725 | L'Olimpiade | Metastasio | 17 February 1734 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 42 | 695 | L’Adelaide | Antonio Salvi | Carnival 1735 | Verona, Teatro Filarmonico | ||
| 43 | 703 | Il Tamerlano (Il Bajazet) | Agostino Piovene | Carnival 1735 | Verona, Teatro Filarmonico | pasticcio | |
| 44 | 718 | Griselda | Apostolo Zeno / Carlo Goldoni | 18 May 1735 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele | ||
| 45 | 698 | Aristide | Carlo Goldoni | Autumn 1735 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele | Transferred to the Anhang as RV Anh. 89 | |
| 46 | 716 | Ginevra principessa di Scozia | Antonio Salvi | 17 January 1736 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola | ||
| 47 | 705 | Catone in Utica | Metastasio | 26 May 1737 | Verona, Teatro Filarmonico | ||
| 48 | 726 | L'oracolo in Messenia | Apostolo Zeno | 30 December 1737 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||
| 49 | 777 | Il giorno felice | Scipione Maffei | 1737 | Venice | Transferred to the Anhang as RV Anh. 92 | |
| 50 | 731 | Rosmira (Rosmira fedele) | Silvio Stampiglia | 27 January 1738 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | pasticcio arranged by Vivaldi of music by Hasse, Pergolesi, Handel, etc.) | |
| 51 | 713 | Feraspe | Francesco Silvani | 1739 | Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo | ||