This French composer Daniel François Esprit Auber (1782–1871) is best known for his operas, including 31 opéras comiques, 7 opéras, 3 drames lyriques, and one each of works designated as comédie, comédie mêlée de chant, intermède, opéra féerie, opéra historique, scène lyrique and scène-prologue. All were premiered in Paris, except Jean de Couvain, which was premiered in Chimay (now in Belgium), and La fête de Versailles, which was premiered in Versailles.
+ Operas by Daniel Auber | ||||||
Title | Genre | Acts | Libretto | Premiere | ||
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Date | Venue | |||||
Julie (L'erreur d'un moment) | comédie | 1 act | Jacques Marie Boutet (Monvel) | 1805 | Salle Doyen | |
Jean de Couvain | 3 acts | Népomucène Lemercier | September 1812 | Château de Chimay | ||
Le séjour militaire | opéra comique | 1 act | Jean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emanuel Mercier-Dupaty | 27 February 1813 | , Salle Feydeau | |
Le testament et les billets doux | comédie mêlée de chant | 1 act | François-Antoine-Eugène Planard | 18 September 1819 | , Salle Feydeau | |
La bergère châtelaine | opéra comique | 3 acts | François-Antoine-Eugène Planard | 27 January 1820 | , Salle Feydeau | |
Emma, ou La promesse imprudente | opéra comique | 3 acts | François-Antoine-Eugène Planard | 7 July 1821 | , Salle Feydeau | |
Leicester, ou Le château de Kenilworth | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Mélesville, after Walter Scott | 25 January 1823 | , Salle Feydeau | |
opéra comique | 4 acts | Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne | 8 October 1823 | , Salle Feydeau | ||
Vendôme en Espagne (written in collaboration with Ferdinand Hérold) | 1 act | Adolphe-Simonis Empis and Edouard Mennechet | 5 December 1823 | Paris Opera, | ||
Les trois genres (written in collaboration with François-Adrien Boieldieu) | scène lyrique | Prologue and 1 act | Eugène Scribe, Emanuel Mercier-Dupaty and Michel Pichat | 27 April 1824 | Théâtre de l'Odéon | |
opéra comique | 1 act | Eugène Scribe and Mélésville | 5 May 1824 | , Salle Feydeau | ||
drame lyrique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Mélésville, after Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | 4 November 1824 | , Salle Feydeau | ||
Le maçon | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne | 3 May 1825 | , Salle Feydeau | |
Le timide, ou Le nouveau séducteur | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and X. B. Saintine | 2 June 1826 | , Salle Feydeau | |
Fiorella | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 28 November 1826 | , Salle Feydeau | |
La muette de Portici (also known as Masaniello) | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne | 29 February 1828 | Paris Opera, | ||
opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe, after Les contes de l'atelier by Michel Masson and Raymond Brucker | 10 January 1829 | , Salle Feydeau | ||
Fra Diavolo, ou L’hôtellerie de Terracine | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 28 January 1830 | , Salle Ventadour. Revised in Italian, with added numbers and spoken dialogue replaced by recitatives; London, Lyceum Theatre, 9 July 1857 | |
Le dieu et la bayadère, ou La courtisane amoureuse | opéra | 2 acts | Eugène Scribe | 13 October 1830 | Paris Opera, | |
Le philtre | opéra | 2 acts | Eugène Scribe | 20 June 1831[1] | Paris Opera, | |
La marquise de Brinvilliers (written in collaboration with Désiré-Alexandre Batton, Henri-Montan Berton, Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Michele Carafa, Luigi Cherubini, Ferdinand Hérold and Ferdinando Paer) | drame lyrique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Castil-Blaze | 31 October 1831 | , Salle Ventadour | |
Le serment, ou Les faux-monnayeurs | opéra | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Édouard-Joseph-Ennemond Mazères | 1 October 1832 | Paris Opera, | |
Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué | opéra historique | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe | 27 February 1833 | Paris Opera, | |
Lestocq, ou L’intrigue et l’amour | opéra comique | 4 acts | Eugène Scribe | 24 May 1834 | , Salle de la Bourse | |
Le cheval de bronze | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 23 March 1835 | , Salle de la Bourse.[2] Revised with a ballet added; 21 September 1857, Paris Opera, | ||
opéra comique | 1 act | Eugène Scribe | 23 January 1836 | , Salle de la Bourse | ||
Les chaperons blancs | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 9 April 1836 | , Salle de la Bourse | |
L'ambassadrice | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | 21 December 1836 | , Salle de la Bourse | |
La fête de Versailles | 1 act | Eugène Scribe | 10 June 1837 | Palace of Versailles | ||
Le domino noir | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 2 December 1837 | , Salle de la Bourse | |
Le lac des fées | opéra | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe and Mélésville | 1 April 1839 | Paris Opera, | |
Zanetta, ou Jouer avec le feu | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | 18 May 1840 | , Salle Favart II | |
Les diamants de la couronne | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | 6 March 1841 | , Salle Favart II | |
Le duc d'Olonne | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Xavier Saintine | 4 February 1842 | , Salle Favart II | |
La part du diable | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 16 January 1843 | , Salle Favart II | |
La sirène | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 26 March 1844 | , Salle Favart II | |
La barcarolle, ou L’amour et la musique | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 22 April 1845 | , Salle Favart II | |
Les premiers pas (written in collaboration with Adolphe Adam, Michele Carafa and Fromental Halévy) | scène-prologue | Prologue and 1 act | Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz | 15 November 1847 | Opéra-National, Cirque Olympique[3] | |
Haydée, ou Le secret | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe, based on Le parti de trictrac (1830) by Prosper Mérimée | 28 December 1847 | , Salle Favart II | |
L'enfant prodigue | opéra | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe | 6 December 1850 | Paris Opera, | |
Zerline, ou La corbeille d'oranges | opéra | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 16 May 1851 | Paris Opera, | |
opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Germain Delavigne; final scene after La confession du bandit by Horace Vernet | 21 December 1852 | , Salle Favart II | ||
Jenny Bell | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 2 June 1855 | , Salle Favart II | |
Manon Lescaut | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe, after L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost | 23 February 1856 | , Salle Favart II | |
La circassienne | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 2 February 1861 | , Salle Favart II | |
La fiancée du roi de Garbe | opéra comique | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe and Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | 11 January 1864 | , Salle Favart II | |
Le premier jour de bonheur | opéra comique | 3 acts | Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon | 15 February 1868 | , Salle Favart II | |
Rêve d'amour | opéra comique | 3 acts | Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon | 20 December 1869 | , Salle Favart II |
Some of the information in this article was originally taken from the Dutch Wikipedia article.