List of operas by Mozart
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
's operas
Opera
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comprise 22 musical dramas in a variety of genres. They range from the small-scale, derivative works of his youth to the full-fledged opera
Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...
s of his maturity. Three of the works were abandoned before completion and were not performed until many years after the composer's death. His mature works are all considered classics and have never been out of the repertory of the world's opera houses.
From a very young age Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , baptismal name Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart , was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music...
had, according to opera analyst David Cairns
David Cairns (writer)
David Cairns is a British journalist, non-fiction writer and musician. He is a leading authority on the life of Berlioz.-Biography:...
, "an extraordinary capacity [...] for seizing on and assimilating whatever in a newly encountered style (was) most useful to him". In a letter to his father, dated 7 February 1778, Mozart wrote, "As you know, I can more or less adopt or imitate any kind and style of composition". He used this gift to break new ground, becoming simultaneously "assimilator, perfector and innovator". Thus, his early works follow the traditional forms of the Italian opera seria
Opera seria
Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770...
and opera buffa
Opera buffa
Opera buffa is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia per musica’, ‘dramma bernesco’, ‘dramma comico’, ‘divertimento giocoso' etc...
as well as the German Singspiel
Singspiel
A Singspiel is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera...
. In his maturity, according to music writer Nicholas Kenyon
Nicholas Kenyon
Sir Nicholas Roger Kenyon CBE is an English music administrator, editor and writer on music. He was responsible for the BBC Proms 1996-2007 following which he was appointed Managing Director of the Barbican Centre, Europe's largest multi-arts centre.-Education and career:After attending St Bede's...
, he "enhanced all of these forms with the richness of his innovation", and, in Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni
Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787...
, he achieved a synthesis of the two Italian styles, including a seria character in Donna Anna, buffa characters in Leporello and Zerlina, and a mixed seria-buffa character in Donna Elvira.
Ideas and characterisations introduced in the early works were subsequently developed and refined. For example, Mozart's later operas feature a series of memorable, strongly drawn female characters, in particular the so-called "Viennese soubrettes" who, in opera writer Charles Osborne
Charles Osborne (music writer)
Charles Thomas Osborne, born 24 November 1927 in Brisbane, Australia, is a journalist, critic, poet and novelist, and a recognised authority on opera. He was assistant editor of The London Magazine from 1958 until 1966, literature director of the Arts Council of Great Britain from 1971 until 1986,...
's phrase, "contrive to combine not true instinct". Music writer and analyst Gottfried Kraus has remarked that all these women were present, as prototypes, in the earlier operas; Bastienne (1768), and Sandrina (La finta giardiniera
La finta giardiniera
La finta giardiniera , K. 196, is an Italian opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart wrote it in Munich in January 1775 when he was 18 years old and it received its first performance on January 13 at the Salvatortheater in Munich...
, 1774) are precedents for the later Constanze and Pamina, while Sandrina's foil Serpetta is the forerunner of Blonde, Susanna, Zerlina and Despina.
Mozart's texts came from a variety of sources, and the early operas were often adaptations of existing works. The first librettist
Libretto
A libretto is the text used in an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical. The term "libretto" is also sometimes used to refer to the text of major liturgical works, such as mass, requiem, and sacred cantata, or even the story line of a...
chosen by Mozart himself appears to have been Giambattista Varesco
Varesco
Father Varesco was a chaplain, musician, poet and librettist to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His given name variously appears as Giambattista, Gianbattista, Giovanni Battista and Girolamo Giovanni Battista...
, for Idomeneo
Idomeneo
Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante is an Italian language opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, which had been set to music by André Campra as Idoménée in 1712...
in 1781. Five years later, he began his most enduring collaboration, with Lorenzo Da Ponte
Lorenzo Da Ponte
Lorenzo Da Ponte was a Venetian opera librettist and poet. He wrote the librettos for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's greatest operas, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte....
, his "true phoenix". The once widely-held theory that Da Ponte was the librettist for the discarded Lo sposo deluso
Lo sposo deluso
Lo sposo deluso, ossia La rivalità di tre donne per un solo amante is a two act opera buffa, K. 430, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart between 1783 and 1784...
of 1783 has now been generally rejected. Mozart felt that, as the composer, he should have considerable input into the content of the libretto, so that it would best serve the music. Musicologist Charles Rosen
Charles Rosen
Charles Rosen is an American pianist and author on music.-Life and career:In his youth he studied piano with Moriz Rosenthal. Rosenthal, born in 1862, had been a student of Franz Liszt...
writes, "it is possible that Da Ponte understood the dramatic necessities of Mozart's style without prompting; but before his association with da Ponte, Mozart had already bullied several librettists into giving him the dramatically shaped ensembles he loved."
Compiling the list
Basis for inclusion
The list includes all the theatrical works generally accepted as composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. In this context "theatrical" means performed on a stage, by vocalists singing in character, in accordance with stage directions. Some sources have adopted more specific criteria, leading them to exclude the early "Sacred Singspiel" Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots, which they classify as an oratorioOratorio
An oratorio is a large musical composition including an orchestra, a choir, and soloists. Like an opera, an oratorio includes the use of a choir, soloists, an ensemble, various distinguishable characters, and arias...
. However, as Osborne makes clear, the libretto contains stage directions which suggest that the work was acted, not merely sung, and it is formally described as a "geistliches Singspiel" (sacred play with music), not as an oratorio.
Sequence
In general, the list follows the sequence in which the operas were written. There is uncertainty about whether La finta sempliceLa finta semplice
La finta semplice , K. 51 is an opera buffa in three acts for soloists and orchestra, composed in 1769 by then 12-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by the court poet Marco Coltellini based on an early work by Carlo Goldoni...
was written before or after Bastien und Bastienne
Bastien und Bastienne
Bastien und Bastienne , K. 50 is a one-act singspiel, a comic opera, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart....
, and in some listings the former is given priority. Thamos was written in two segments, the earlier in 1774, but is listed in accordance with its completion in 1779–80. Die Zauberflöte
The Magic Flute
The Magic Flute is an opera in two acts composed in 1791 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder. The work is in the form of a Singspiel, a popular form that included both singing and spoken dialogue....
and La clemenza di Tito
La clemenza di Tito
La clemenza di Tito , K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Metastasio...
were written concurrently. Die Zauberflote was started earlier and put aside for the Tito commission, which was completed and performed first and is usually listed as the earlier work despite having a higher Köchel catalogue number.
List of works
Note: Eng refers to English translation of title| Köchel No. | Year composed | Title | Language | Type of opera | Librettist | Voice parts | First performance details |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| K.35 | 1767 | Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots Part I Eng: The Obligation of the first and foremost Commandment Score |
German | Sacred Singspiel Singspiel A Singspiel is a form of German-language music drama, now regarded as a genre of opera... |
Ignaz von Weiser | 3 soprano, 2 tenor | Archbishop's Palace, Salzburg Salzburg -Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for... , 12 March 1767 |
| K.38 | 1767 | Apollo et Hyacinthus Apollo et Hyacinthus Apollo et Hyacinthus is an opera, K. 38, written in 1767 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was 11 years old at the time. It is Mozart's first true opera . It is in three acts... Eng: Apollo and Hyacinth Score |
Latin | Musical setting of a Latin text | Rufinus Widl, after Ovid Ovid Publius Ovidius Naso , known as Ovid in the English-speaking world, was a Roman poet who is best known as the author of the three major collections of erotic poetry: Heroides, Amores, and Ars Amatoria... 's Metamorphoses |
2 soprano, 2 alto, 1 tenor, 2 bass, chorus | Great Hall, University of Salzburg University of Salzburg The University of Salzburg, or Paris Lodron University after its founder, the Prince Archbishop Paris Lodron, is located in the Austrian city of Salzburg, Salzburgerland, home of Mozart. It is divided into 4 faculties: catholic theology, law, humanities and natural science.Founded in 1622, it... , 13 May 1767 |
| K.50 | 1768 | Bastien und Bastienne Bastien und Bastienne Bastien und Bastienne , K. 50 is a one-act singspiel, a comic opera, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.... Eng: Bastien and Bastienne Score |
German | Singspiel in one act | F. W. Weiskern and J. H. Muller | 1 soprano, 1 tenor, 1 bass | First confirmed performance: Architektenhaus, Berlin, 2 October 1890. Unconfirmed performance Vienna Vienna Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre... , October 1768 in garden of Dr Franz Mesmer Franz Mesmer Franz Anton Mesmer , sometimes, albeit incorrectly, referred to as Friedrich Anton Mesmer, was a German physician with an interest in astronomy, who theorised that there was a natural energetic transference that occurred between all animated and inanimate objects that he called magnétisme animal ... |
| K.51 | 1768 | La finta semplice La finta semplice La finta semplice , K. 51 is an opera buffa in three acts for soloists and orchestra, composed in 1769 by then 12-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by the court poet Marco Coltellini based on an early work by Carlo Goldoni... Eng: The Feigned Simpleton Score |
Italian | Opera buffa Opera buffa Opera buffa is a genre of opera. It was first used as an informal description of Italian comic operas variously classified by their authors as ‘commedia in musica’, ‘commedia per musica’, ‘dramma bernesco’, ‘dramma comico’, ‘divertimento giocoso' etc... in three acts |
Marco Coltellini Marco Coltellini Marco Coltellini was an Italian opera librettist and printer.He was probably born in Livorno and embarked on a career in the Church, but had to leave after fathering four daughters. He set up a printing shop in Livorno to publish the works of Enlightenment figures such as Francesco Algarotti and... , after Carlo Goldoni Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays of Goldoni for their ingenious mix of wit and honesty... |
2 soprano, 1 contralto (or mezzo-soprano), 2 tenor, 2 bass | Archbishop's Palace, Salzburg, 1 May 1769 |
| K.87 | 1770 | Mitridate, re di Ponto Mitridate, re di Ponto Mitridate, re di Ponto , K. 87 , is an early opera seria in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto is by Vittorio Amadeo Cigna-Santi after Giuseppe Parini's Italian translation of Jean Racine.... Eng: Mithridates, King of Pontus Score |
Italian | Opera seria Opera seria Opera seria is an Italian musical term which refers to the noble and "serious" style of Italian opera that predominated in Europe from the 1710s to c. 1770... in three acts |
Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi, after Giuseppe Parini Giuseppe Parini Giuseppe Parini was an Italian Enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period.-Biography:Parini was born in Bosisio in Brianza, Lombardy... , after Jean Racine Jean Racine Jean Racine , baptismal name Jean-Baptiste Racine , was a French dramatist, one of the "Big Three" of 17th-century France , and one of the most important literary figures in the Western tradition... |
4 soprano, 1 alto, 2 tenor | Teatro Regio Ducal Teatro Regio Ducal The Teatro Regio Ducal was the opera house in Milan from 26 December 1717 until 25 February 1776, when it was burned down following a carnival gala. Many famous composers and their operas are associated with it, including the premieres of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba, Mitridate, re di Ponto, and Lucio... , Milan Milan Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,... , 26 December 1770 |
| K.111 | 1771 | Ascanio in Alba Ascanio in Alba Ascanio in Alba, K. 111, is a pastoral opera in two parts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Giuseppe Parini... Eng: Ascanius in Alba Score |
Italian | Festspiel Festspielhaus A Festspielhaus or Festival Theatre is a German language term describing a theatre designed for opera or music festivals.There are several examples of Festival Theatres in the German-speaking world:... in two acts |
Giuseppe Parini Giuseppe Parini Giuseppe Parini was an Italian Enlightenment satirist and poet of the neoclassic period.-Biography:Parini was born in Bosisio in Brianza, Lombardy... |
4 soprano, 1 tenor, chorus | Teatro Regio Ducal Teatro Regio Ducal The Teatro Regio Ducal was the opera house in Milan from 26 December 1717 until 25 February 1776, when it was burned down following a carnival gala. Many famous composers and their operas are associated with it, including the premieres of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba, Mitridate, re di Ponto, and Lucio... , Milan, 17 October 1771 |
| K.126 | 1772 | Il sogno di Scipione Il sogno di Scipione Il sogno di Scipione, K. 126, is a dramatic serenade in one act composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, which is based on the book Somnium Scipionis by Cicero. Mozart had originally composed the work at the age of 15 for his patron, Prince-Archbishop Sigismund von... Eng: Scipio's Dream Score |
Italian | Azione teatrale Azione teatrale Azione teatrale is a genre of opera, popular in Italy in the late 17th and 18th centuries... , or Serenata drammatica, in one act |
Metastasio Metastasio Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Metastasio, was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.-Early life:... , after Cicero Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero , was a Roman philosopher, statesman, lawyer, political theorist, and Roman constitutionalist. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the equestrian order, and is widely considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists.He introduced the Romans to the chief... |
3 soprano, 3 tenor, chorus | Archbishop's residence, Salzburg, probably 1 May 1772 |
| K.135 | 1772 | Lucio Silla Lucio Silla Lucio Silla, K. 135, is an Italian opera in three acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was written by Giovanni de Gamerra.It was first performed on 26 December 1772 at the Regio Ducal Teatro in Milan.... Eng: Lucius Sulla Score |
Italian | Dramma per musica Dramma per musica Dramma per musica is a term which was used by dramatists in Italy and elsewhere between the late-17th and mid-19th centuries... in three acts |
Giovanni de Gamarra, revised by Metastasio | 4 soprano, 2 tenor, chorus | Teatro Regio Ducal Teatro Regio Ducal The Teatro Regio Ducal was the opera house in Milan from 26 December 1717 until 25 February 1776, when it was burned down following a carnival gala. Many famous composers and their operas are associated with it, including the premieres of Mozart's Ascanio in Alba, Mitridate, re di Ponto, and Lucio... , Milan, 26 December 1772 |
| K.196 | 1774 | La finta giardiniera La finta giardiniera La finta giardiniera , K. 196, is an Italian opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mozart wrote it in Munich in January 1775 when he was 18 years old and it received its first performance on January 13 at the Salvatortheater in Munich... Eng: The Pretend Garden-Maid Score |
Italian | Dramma giocoso Dramma giocoso Dramma giocoso is the name of a genre of opera common in the mid-18th century. The term is a contraction of "dramma giocoso per musica" and is essentially a description of the text rather than the opera as a whole... in three acts |
Probably Giuseppe Petrosellini | 4 soprano, 2 tenor, 1 bass, chorus | Redoutensaal, Munich Munich Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat... , 13 January 1775 |
| K.208 | 1775 | Il re pastore Il re pastore Il re pastore is an opera, K. 208, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Metastasio, edited by Gianbattista Varesco. It is an opera seria... Eng: The Shepherd King Score |
Italian | Serenata in two acts | Metastasio, amended by Giambattista Varesco Varesco Father Varesco was a chaplain, musician, poet and librettist to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His given name variously appears as Giambattista, Gianbattista, Giovanni Battista and Girolamo Giovanni Battista... |
3 soprano, 2 tenor | Archbishop's Palace, Salzburg, 23 April 1775 |
| K.345 | 1773 & 1779 |
Thamos, König in Ägypten Thamos, König in Ägypten Thamos, King of Egypt is a play by Tobias Philipp, baron von Gebler, for which, between 1773 and 1780, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote incidental music, K. 345/336a, of an operatic character.... Eng: Thamos, King of Egypt Score |
German | Choruses and entr'actes for a heroic drama | Tobias Philipp von Gebler | Chorus and soloists: soprano, alto, tenor, bass | Kärntnertor Theatre Theater am Kärntnertor Theater am Kärntnertor or Kärntnertortheater was a prestigious theatre in Vienna during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries... , Vienna 4 April 1774 (two choruses); first complete performance Salzburg, 1779–80 |
| K.344 | 1779 | Zaide Zaide Zaide is an unfinished opera, K. 344, written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1780. Emperor Joseph II, in 1778, was in the process of setting up an opera company for the purpose of performing German opera. One condition required of the composer to join this company was that he should write a... Eng: Zaide Score |
German | Singspiel (incomplete) | Johann Andreas Schachtner | 1 soprano, 2 tenor, 2 bass, ensemble (mini-chorus) of 4 tenors, 1 speaking role | Frankfurt Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010... (location unrecorded), 27 January 1866. Not performed during Mozart's lifetime |
| K.366 | 1780–81 | Idomeneo, re di Creta Idomeneo Idomeneo, re di Creta ossia Ilia e Idamante is an Italian language opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto was adapted by Giambattista Varesco from a French text by Antoine Danchet, which had been set to music by André Campra as Idoménée in 1712... Eng: Idomeneo, King of Crete Score |
Italian | Dramma per musica in three acts | Giambattista Varesco, after Antoine Danchet Antoine Danchet Antoine Danchet was a French playwright, librettist and dramatic poet.-Biography:Danchet was born in Riom, in the Auvergne, France. Having been a professor of rhetoric at Chartres and then a tutor at Paris, Danchet gaveup teaching to write for the theatre. He wrote some opera libretti which, set... |
3 soprano, 1 mezzo-soprano, 4 tenor, 1 baritone,2 bass, chorus | Court Theatre (now Cuvilliés Theatre Cuvilliés Theatre The Cuvilliés Theatre or Old Residence Theatre is the former court theatre of the Residenz in Munich, southern Germany.- Description :... ), Munich, 29 January 1781 |
| K.384 | 1782 | Die Entführung aus dem Serail Die Entführung aus dem Serail Die Entführung aus dem Serail is an opera Singspiel in three acts by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The German libretto is by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner with adaptations by Gottlieb Stephanie... Eng: The Abduction from the Seraglio Score |
German | Singspiel in three acts | Gottlieb Stephanie Gottlieb Stephanie Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger was an Austrian playwright, director and librettist, most famously to Mozart. He came to Vienna during the Seven Years' War as a Prussian prisoner of war... , based on text by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner Christoph Friedrich Bretzner Christoph Friedrich Bretzner was a Leipzig merchant famous for writing the libretto to a singspiel Belmont und Constanze, oder Die Entführung aus dem Serail, produced in Berlin and adapted in 1782 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Gottlieb Stephanie as Die Entführung aus dem Serail... |
2 soprano, 2 tenor, 1 bass, 2 speaking roles | Burgtheater Burgtheater The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the... , Vienna, 16 July 1782 |
| K.422 | 1784 | L'oca del Cairo L'oca del Cairo L'oca del Cairo is an opera buffa in three acts, K. 422, begun by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in July 1783 but abandoned in October.The complete three act libretto by Giovanni Battista Varesco remains.... Eng: The Goose of Cairo Score |
Italian | Dramma per musica (incomplete) | Giambattista Varesco | (Provisional) 4 soprano, 2 tenor, 2 bass, chorus | Theatre du Fantaisies-Parisiennes, Paris, 6 June 1867 Not performed in Mozart's lifetime |
| K.430 | 1784 | Lo sposo deluso Lo sposo deluso Lo sposo deluso, ossia La rivalità di tre donne per un solo amante is a two act opera buffa, K. 430, composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart between 1783 and 1784... Eng: The Deluded Bridegroom Score |
Italian | Opera buffa (incomplete) | Unknown, once attributed to Lorenzo Da Ponte Lorenzo Da Ponte Lorenzo Da Ponte was a Venetian opera librettist and poet. He wrote the librettos for 28 operas by 11 composers, including three of Mozart's greatest operas, Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro and Così fan tutte.... . Possibly Guiseppe Petrosellini |
(Provisional) 3 soprano, 2 tenor, 2 bass | Theatre du Fantaisies-Parisiennes, Paris, 6 June 1867 Not performed in Mozart's lifetime |
| K.486 | 1786 | Der Schauspieldirektor Der Schauspieldirektor Der Schauspieldirektor , K. 486, is a comic Singspiel written by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to a German libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie, an Austrian Schauspieldirektor.... Eng: The Impresario Score |
German | Comedy with music in one act | Gottlieb Stephanie | 2 soprano, 1 tenor, 1 bass, 6 speaking roles | Schönbrunn Palace Schönbrunn Palace Schönbrunn Palace is a former imperial 1,441-room Rococo summer residence in Vienna, Austria. One of the most important cultural monuments in the country, since the 1960s it has been one of the major tourist attractions in Vienna... , Vienna, 7 February 1786 |
| K.492 | 1786 | Le nozze di Figaro Eng: The Marriage of Figaro Score |
Italian | Opera buffa in four acts | Lorenzo da Ponte, after Pierre Beaumarchais Pierre Beaumarchais Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais was a French playwright, watchmaker, inventor, musician, diplomat, fugitive, spy, publisher, arms dealer, satirist, financier, and revolutionary .... |
3 soprano, 2 mezzo-soprano, 2 tenor, 1 baritone, 3 bass, chorus | Burgtheater Burgtheater The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the... , Vienna, 1 May 1786 |
| K.527 | 1787 | Don Giovanni Don Giovanni Don Giovanni is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and with an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It was premiered by the Prague Italian opera at the Teatro di Praga on October 29, 1787... Eng: Don Giovanni or Don Juan Score |
Italian | Dramma giocoso in two acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte | 3 soprano, 1 tenor 1 baritone, 3 bass, chorus | Estates Theatre Estates Theatre The Estates Theatre or Stavovské divadlo is a historic theatre in Prague, Czech Republic. The Estates Theatre was annexed to the National Theatre in 1948 and currently draws on three artistic ensembles, opera, ballet, and drama, which perform at the Estates Theatre, the National Theatre , and the... , Prague Prague Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million... (also known as Nationaltheater and Tyl theatre), 29 October 1787 |
| K.588 | 1790 | Così fan tutte Così fan tutte Così fan tutte, ossia La scuola degli amanti K. 588, is an opera buffa by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart first performed in 1790. The libretto was written by Lorenzo Da Ponte.... Eng: Women are like that Score |
Italian | Dramma giocoso in two acts | Lorenzo Da Ponte | 3 soprano, 1 tenor, 1 baritone, 1 bass, chorus | Burgtheater Burgtheater The Burgtheater , originally known as K.K. Theater an der Burg, then until 1918 as the K.K. Hofburgtheater, is the Austrian National Theatre in Vienna and one of the most important German language theatres in the world.The Burgtheater was created in 1741 and has become known as "die Burg" by the... , Vienna, 26 January 1790 |
| K.621 | 1791 | La clemenza di Tito La clemenza di Tito La clemenza di Tito , K. 621, is an opera seria in two acts composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Caterino Mazzolà, after Metastasio... Eng: The Clemency of Titus Score |
Italian | Opera seria in two acts | Metastasio, revised by Catterino Mazzolà | 2 soprano, 2 mezzo-soprano, 1 tenor, 1 bass, chorus | Estates Theatre, Prague, 6 September 1791 |
| K.620 | 1791 | Die Zauberflöte Eng: The Magic Flute Score |
German | Singspiel in two acts | Emanuel Schikaneder Emanuel Schikaneder Emanuel Schikaneder , born Johann Joseph Schickeneder, was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer and composer. He was the librettist of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera The Magic Flute and the builder of the Theater an der Wien... |
6 soprano, 2 mezzo-soprano, 1 alto, 4 tenor, 1 baritone, 4 bass, chorus | Theater auf der Wieden Theater auf der Wieden The Theater auf der Wieden, also called the Freihaus-Theater auf der Wieden or the Wiednertheater, was a theater located in the then-suburban Wieden district of Vienna in the late 18th century... , Vienna, 30 September 1791 |