List of operas by Josef Mysliveček explained

This is a complete list of the operas of the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781). All of Mysliveček's operas are examples of opera seria (genre: dramma per musica) and in three acts.

List

TitleLibrettoDate of premièrePlace, theater
SemiramideMetastasioSummer fair, 1766Bergamo, Teatro di Citadella
Il BellerofonteGiuseppe Bonecchi20 January 1767Naples, Teatro San Carlo
FarnaceAntonio Maria Lucchini4 November 1767Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Il trionfo di CleliaMetastasio26 December 1767Turin, Teatro Regio
Demofoonte (1st version)Metastasio17 January 1769Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
L'IpermestraMetastasio27 March 1769Florence, Teatro della Pergola
La NittetiMetastasio29 April 1770Bologna, Teatro Nuovo Pubblico
Motezuma23 January 1771Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Il gran TamerlanoAgostino Piovene26 December 1771Milan, Teatro Regio Ducale
Demetrio (1st version)Metastasio24 May 1773Pavia, Teatro Nuovo
Romolo ed ErsiliaMetastasio13 August 1773Naples, Teatro San Carlo
AntigonaGaetano Roccaforte26 December 1773Turin, Teatro Regio
La clemenza di TitoMetastasiocarnival, 1774, by 5 February 1774Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
AtideTomaso Stanzani, after Philippe QuinaultJune 1774, perhaps 13 JunePadua, Teatro Nuovo
ArtaserseMetastasio13 August 1774Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Demofoonte (2nd version)Metastasio20 January 1775Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Ezio (1st version)Metastasio30 May 1775Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Adriano in SiriaMetastasio8 September 1776Florence, Teatro del Cocomero
Ezio (2nd version)Metastasio1777Munich, Hoftheater
La CalliroeMatteo Verazi30 May 1778Naples, Teatro San Carlo
L'OlimpiadeMetastasio4 November 1778Naples, Teatro San Carlo
La CirceDomenico Perelli12 May 1779Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
Demetrio (2nd version)Metastasio13 August 1779Naples, Teatro San Carlo
ArmidaGiovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca, after Philippe Quinault and Torquato Tasso26 December 1779Milan, Teatro alla Scala
MedonteGiovanni de Gamerra26 January 1780Rome, Teatro Argentina
AntigonoMetastasio5 April 1780Rome, Teatro delle Dame

Note: There is no reason to believe that any of the following productions cited in earlier musicological literature ever took place: Medea (Parma, 1764); Erifile (Munich, 1773); Achille in Sciro (Naples, 1775); and Merope (Naples, 1775). Furthermore, there is no reason to believe that Mysliveček contributed any music to a production of Armida that took place in Lucca in 1778.[1] The cantata Il Parnaso confuso is sometimes referred to in error as Mysliveček's first opera. Reports that it was performed in Parma in 1765 are conjectural; there is no documentation to verify its true date of composition or the venue of its first performance.

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Notes and References

  1. Documentation of how all of these spurious productions entered the musicological literature is found in Catalog II of Freeman, Josef Mysliveček.