List of operas by Ottorino Respighi

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

Cat. Year composed Title Genre Sub­divisions Libretto Première date Place, theatre Notes
P 055 1905 Re Enzo opera comica 3 acts Alberto Donini 12 March 1905 Bologna, Teatro del Corso
P 076 1908 Al mulino opera 2 acts Alberto Donini 1908 Bologna Unfinished. Première date is a private performance for the singer Margherita Durante
P 094 1910 Semirâma poema tragico 3 acts Alessandro Cerè 20 November 1910 Bologna, Teatro Comunale
P 098b 1913 La Marquise Zabeth opera 2 acts Unfinished.
After Victor Hugo's Esca
P 100 1914 Marie Victoire opera 4 acts Edmond Guiraud 17 January 2004 Rome, Teatro dell'Opera Posthumous première
P 134 1921 La bella addormentata nel bosco fiaba musicale 3 acts Gian Bistolfi 13 April 1922 Rome, Teatro Odescalchi Version for marionette. See P 176 for standard opera version.
After Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty
P 137 1922 Belfagor commedia lirica 1 prologue,
2 acts,
1 epilogue
Claudio Guastalla 26 April 1923 Milan, Teatro alla Scala After a comedy by Ercole Luigi Morselli
P 152 1927 La campana sommersa opera 4 acts Claudio Guastalla 18 November 1927 Hamburg, Stadttheater After Gerhart Hauptmann's Die versunkene Glocke
P 170 1931 Maria egiziaca mistero 3 acts
(quadri)
Claudio Guastalla 16 March 1932 New York City, Carnegie Hall New York première was in concert form.
Scenic première:Venice, Teatro Goldoni, 10 August 1932
P 175 1933 La fiamma melodramma 3 acts Claudio Guastalla 23 January 1934 Rome, Teatro dell’Opera After Hans Wiers-Jenssen's The Witch
P 176 1933 La bella dormente nel bosco fiaba musicale 3 acts Gian Bistolfi 9 April 1934 Turin, Teatro di Torino Standard opera version. See P 134 for marionette version.
After Charles Perrault's Sleeping Beauty
P 180 1935 Lucrezia opera 1 act
(3 movements)
Claudio Guastalla 24 February 1937 Milan, Teatro alla Scala After Shakespeare and Titus Livius

See also edit

Sources edit

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