This is a list of operas by Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842) who spent much of his working life in France.
In terms of genre, Cherubini's output included 11 opere serie and 10 opéras comiques, as well as three intermezzi, three tragédies lyriques, two opere buffe, and one each of the following: comédie héroïque, comédie lyrique, comédie mêlée d'ariettes, drame lyrique, dramma lirico, opéra bouffon, and opéra-ballet.
List of operas + Operas by Luigi Cherubini Title Genre Acts Libretto Premiere Date VenueAmore artigianointermezzounknownafter Carlo GoldoniIl giocatoreintermezzounknownlibrettist unknown and score lost composed 1775?Florence(untitled) intermezzo unknownlibrettist unknown16 February 1778Florence, ServitiIl Quinto Fabioopera seria3 actsApostolo Zeno Autumn 1779Alessandria, Teatro PagliaArmida abbandonataopera seria3 actsBartolomeo Vitturi, based on Torquato Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata 25 January 1782Florence, La PergolaAdriano in Siriaopera seria3 actsMetastasio 16 April 1782Livorno, Teatro ArmeniMesenzio, re d'Etruriaopera seria3 actsFerdinando Casor(r)i 6 September 1782Florence, Teatro della PergolaIl Quinto Fabio(second version)opera seria3 actsApostolo Zeno January 1783Rome, Teatro ArgentinaLo sposo di tre e marito di nessuna opera buffa2 actsFilippo Livigni November 1783Venice, Teatro San SamueleOlimpiadeopera seria3 acts?Metastasio 1783Venice?L'Alessandro nelle Indieopera seria2 actsMetastasio April 1784Mantua, Teatro Nuovo Regio DucaleL'Idalideopera seria2 actsFerdinando Moretti 26 December 1784Florence, Teatro della PergolaDemetrioopera seria4 pieces onlyMetastasio 1785London, King's TheatreLa finta principessa opera buffa2 actsFilippo Livigni 2 April 1785London, King's TheatreIl Giulio Sabinoopera seria2 actsPietro Giovannini 30 March 1786London, King's TheatreIfigenia in Aulideopera seria3 actsFerdinando Moretti, after François Louis Gaud Lebland Du Roullet 12 January 1788Turin, Teatro RegioDémophoontragédie lyrique3 actsJean-François Marmontel, after Metastasio 2 December 1788Paris, Opéra()Lodoïskacomédie héroïque3 actsClaude-François Fillette-Loraux after Les Amours du Chevalier Faublas by Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvrais 18 July 1791Paris, Théâtre FeydeauKoukourgi(composed 1792-93Koukourgi (1792–93)" at Boosey & Hawkes)opéra comique3 actsHonoré-Nicolas-Marie Duveyrier18 September 2010Klagenfurt, Stadttheater KlagenfurtLe congrès des rois(together with Henri Montan Berton, Frédéric Blasius, Nicolas Dalayrac, Prosper-Didier Deshayes, François Devienne, André Grétry, Louis-Emmanuel Jadin, Rodolphe Kreutzer, Étienne Méhul, Jean-Pierre Solié and Armand-Emmanuel Trial)comédie mêlée d'ariettes3 actsDesmaillot (Antoine-François Eve) 26 February 1794Paris, (Favart)Eliza, ou Le voyage aux glaciers du Mont Saint Bernardopéra comique2 actsJacques-Antoine Révérony de Saint-Cyr 13 December 1794Paris, Théâtre FeydeauMédéeopéra comique3 actsFrançois-Benoît Hoffmann and Nicolas Étienne Framéry, after Euripides and Pierre Corneille first version: 13 March 1797Italian translation, as Medea: 6 November 1802, Vienna; in 1809, Cherubini cut about 500 bars for a shortened version, also for Vienna.Paris, Théâtre FeydeauL'hôtellerie portugaiseopéra comique1 actEtienne Saint-Aignan 25 July 1798Paris, Théâtre FeydeauLa punitionopéra comique1 actJean-Louis Brousse Desfaucheres 23 February 1799Paris, Théâtre FeydeauEmma ou La prisionnière (composed together with François-Adrien Boieldieu)opéra comique1 actEtienne de Jouy, Charles de Longchamps and Claude Godard d'Aucort de Saint-Just 12 September 1799Paris, Théâtre MontansierLes deux journées, ou Le porteur d'eaucomédie lyrique3 actsJean-Nicolas Bouilly 16 January 1800Paris, Théâtre FeydeauÉpicure (with Étienne Méhul)opéra comique3 acts, revised as 2 actsCharles-Albert Desmoustier 14 March 1800Paris, (Favart)Anacréon ou L'amour fugitifopéra-ballet2 actsC. R. Mendouze 4 October 1803Paris, Opéra(Théâtre des Arts)Faniskaopéra comique3 actsJoseph von Sonnleitner after René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt 25 February 1806Vienna, Theater am KärntnertorPimmalionedramma lirico1 actStefano Vestris, after Antonio Simone Sografi's Italian version of Pygmalion by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 30 November 1809Paris, Théâtre des TuileriesLe crescendoopéra bouffon1 actCharles-Augustine de Bassompierre de Sewrin 1 September 1810Paris, (Feydeau)Les Abencérages, ou L'étendard de Grenadetragédie lyrique3 actsVictor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy, after François-René de Chateaubriand, based on Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian's novel Gonsalve de Cordoue 6 April 1813Paris, Opéra(Théâtre des Arts)Bayard à Mézières(in collaboration with François-Adrien Boieldieu, Nicolas Isouard and Charles-Simon Catel)opéra comique1 actEmmanuel Dupaty and René de Chazet 12 February 1814Paris, (Feydeau)Blanche de Provence, ou La cour de fées(composed with Henri Montan Berton, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Ferdinando Paer)opéra comique3 actsEmmanuel Théaulon and Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé 1 May 1821Paris, Théâtre des TuileriesLa marquise de Brinvilliers(composed in collaboration with Daniel Auber, Désiré-Alexandre Batton, Henri Montan Berton, Felice Blangini, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Michele Carafa, Ferdinand Hérold and Ferdinando Paer)drame lyrique3 actsEugène Scribe and Castil-Blaze (François-Henri-Joseph Blaze) 31 October 1831Paris, (Ventadour)Ali Baba, ou Les quarante voleurstragédie lyriquePrologue and 4 actsEugène Scribe and Mélesville 22 July 1833Paris, Opéra(Salle Le Peletier)
References Notes
Sources Willis, Stephen C (1992), "Cherubini, Luigi" in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) Some of the information in this article is taken from the related Dutch Wikipedia article.