List of operas by Ottorino Respighi explained

This is a complete list of the operas by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi (1879–1936).

Cat.Year composedTitleGenreSub­divisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatreNotes
P 0551905Re Enzoopera comica3 actsAlberto Donini12 March 1905Bologna, Teatro del Corso
P 0761908Al mulinoopera2 actsAlberto Donini1908BolognaUnfinished. Première date is a private performance for the singer Margherita Durante
P 0941910Semirâmapoema tragico3 actsAlessandro Cerè20 November 1910Bologna, Teatro Comunale
P 098b1913La Marquise Zabethopera2 actsUnfinished.
After Victor Hugo's Esca
P 1001914Marie Victoireopera4 actsEdmond Guiraud17 January 2004Rome, Teatro dell'OperaPosthumous première
P 1341921La bella addormentata nel boscofiaba musicale3 actsGian Bistolfi13 April 1922Rome, Teatro OdescalchiVersion for marionette. See P 176 for standard opera version.
After Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty
P 1371922Belfagorcommedia lirica1 prologue,
2 acts,
1 epilogue
Claudio Guastalla26 April 1923Milan, Teatro alla ScalaAfter a comedy by Ercole Luigi Morselli
P 1521927La campana sommersaopera4 actsClaudio Guastalla18 November 1927Hamburg, StadttheaterAfter Gerhart Hauptmann's Die versunkene Glocke
P 1701931Maria egiziacamistero3 acts
(quadri)
Claudio Guastalla16 March 1932New York City, Carnegie HallNew York première was in concert form.
Scenic première:Venice, Teatro Goldoni, 10 August 1932
P 1751933La fiammamelodramma3 actsClaudio Guastalla23 January 1934Rome, Teatro dell’OperaAfter Hans Wiers-Jenssen's The Witch
P 1761933La bella dormente nel boscofiaba musicale3 actsGian Bistolfi9 April 1934Turin, Teatro di TorinoStandard opera version. See P 134 for marionette version.
After Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty
P 1801935Lucreziaopera1 act
(3 movements)
Claudio Guastalla24 February 1937Milan, Teatro alla ScalaAfter Shakespeare and Titus Livius

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