Gaspare Spontini (1774–1851) wrote operas from the last decade of the 18th century to the third decade of the 19th century.
Before leaving Italy, where he was born, he wrote:
For Paris, he wrote:
First presented in Berlin:
Li puntigli delle donne | farsetta per musica | 2 acts | unknown | Carnival 1796 | Florence, Regio Teatro degli Intrepidi | |
Adelina Senese o sia l'Amore secreto | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati, after his libretto La principessa d'Amalfi for Joseph Weigl | 10 October 1797 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele | |
Il finto pittore | farsetta/melodramma buffo? | unknown | unknown | 1797/1798; 1800 | Rome (?); Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia | |
L'eroismo ridicolo | farsa per musica | 1 act | Domenico Piccinni | Carnival 1798 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo | |
Il Teseo riconosciuto | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Cosimo Giotti | 22 May 1798 | Florence, Regio Teatro degli Intrepidi | |
La finta filosofa | commedia per musica | 2 acts | Domenico Piccinni | 1 July 1799 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo | |
La fuga in maschera | commedia per musica | 2 acts | Giuseppe Palomba | Carnival 1800 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo sopra Toledo | |
I quadri parlanti | melodramma buffo | unknown | unknown | 1800 | Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia | |
Gli Elisi delusi | melodramma buffo | 2 acts | Michelangelo Monti | 28 August 1800 | Palermo, Teatro Santa Cecilia | |
Gli amanti in cimento, o sia Il geloso audace | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Giovanni Bertati | 3 November 1801 | Rome, Teatro Valle | |
Le metamorfosi di Pasquale, o sia Tutto è illusione nel mondo | farsa giocosa per musica | 1 act | Giuseppe Foppa | Carnival 1802 | Venice, Teatro Giustiniani in San Moisè | |
La petite maison | opéra comique | 3 acts | Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Nicolas Gersin | 12 May 1804 | Paris, Opéra-Comique, Salle Feydeau | |
Milton | fait historique | 1 act | Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy | 27 November 1804 | Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart | |
Julie, ou Le pot de fleurs | comédie en prose, mêlée de chants | 1 act | Antoine Gabriel Jars | 12 March 1805 | Paris, Opéra Comique, Salle Favart | |
La vestale | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after Johann Joachim Winckelmann's Monumenti antichi inediti (1767) | 15 December 1807 | Paris, Opéra | |
Fernand Cortez, ou La conquête du Mexique; third and fourth versions, in German, as Fernand Cortez oder Die Eroberung von Mexiko | tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy and Joseph-Alphonse d'Esménard, after Alexis Piron; second version: revised by Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy; third version: revised by Emmanuel Théaulon, translated by J. C. May; fourth version: revised by Karl August von Lichtenstein | 28 November 1809; second version: 28 May 1817; third version: 6 April 1824; fourth version: 26 February 1832 | Paris, Opéra (first and second versions); Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (third and fourth versions) | |
Pélage, ou Le roi et la paix | opéra | 2 acts | Victor-Joseph Etienne de Jouy | 23 August 1814 | Paris, Opéra | |
Les dieux rivaux, ou Les fêtes de Cythère (Together with Rudolphe Kreutzer, Louis-Luc Loiseau de Persuis and Henri Montan Berton) | opéra-ballet | 1 act | Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut | 21 June 1816 | Paris, Opéra | |
Olimpie
| tragédie lyrique | 3 acts | Joseph Marie Armand Michel Dieulafoy and Charles Brifaut, after Voltaire; second version translated and revised by E. T. A. Hoffmann | 22 December 1819; second version: 14 May 1821; third version: 28 February 1826 | Paris, Opéra (first and third versions); Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (second version) | |
Nurmahal, oder das Rosenfest von Caschmir | lyrisches Drama mit Ballet | 2 acts | Carl Alexander Herklots, after Thomas Moore's Lalla Rookh | 27 May 1822 | Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus | |
Alcidor | Zauberoper mit Ballet | 3 acts | Marie-Emmanuel-Guillaume Théaulon de Lambert and C. Nutty, after Rochon de Chabannes; German translation by Carl Alexander Herklots | 23 May 1825 (to celebrate the marriage of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands and Princess Louise of Prussia on 21 May 1825) | Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus | |
Agnes von Hohenstaufen | lyrisches Drama | 3 acts | Ernst Raupach (first and second versions); revised by Karl August von Lichtenstein and the composer (third version) | 28 May 1827 (first version, consisting of the first act only); 12 June 1829 (second version in 3 acts); 6 December 1837 (third version in 3 acts) | Berlin, Königliches Opernhaus (all versions) |