This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer (1771–1839).
List TitleGenreSubdivisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatre Orphée et Euridice (Paer) play with songs 1 act Charles Pierre Duplessis after Ranieri de' Calzabigi and Alessandro Striggio figlio 1791 Parma, Court Circe(also performed as Calypso) opera 3 acts Domenico Perelli carnival 1792 Venice, Teatro San SamueleLe astuzie amorose, o Il tempo fa giustizia a tutti(also performed as La locanda dei vagabondi) dramma giocoso 2 acts Antonio Brambilla autumn 1792 Parma, Teatro DucaleI portenti del magnetismo opera buffa 2 acts carnival 1793 Venice, Teatro San Moisè Icilio e Virginia 2 acts Giuseppe Maria Foppa June 1793 Padua, Nuovo Laodicea(also performed as Tegene e Laodicea) 3 acts Giuseppe Maria Foppa June 1793 Padua, NuovoI pretendenti burlati dramma giocoso 2 acts Gian Carlo Grossardi summer 1793 Medesano, TeatrinoL'oro fa tutto(German: Geld ist die Lösung) dramma giocoso 2 acts Angelo Anelli August 1793 Milan, Teatro alla ScalaIl nuovo Figaro(also performed as Il matrimonio di Figaro) dramma giocoso 4 acts Lorenzo Da Ponte after Pierre Beaumarchais (originally written for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) January 1794 Parma, Teatro DucaleIl matrimonio improvviso(also performed as I due sordi) farsa 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa 22 February 1794 Venice, Teatro San MoisèI molinari farsa 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa Carnival 1794 Venice, Teatro San MoisèIl fornaro farsa 1 act carnival 1794 Venice, Teatro San MoisèL'Idomeneo dramma serio 2 acts Gaetano Sertor after Antoine Danchet spring 1794 Florence, Palla a Corda Ero e Leandro dramma 2 acts 13 August 1794 Naples, Teatro di San CarloL'inganno in trionfo intermezzo 1 act 1794 Florence, Palla a Corda Una in bene e una in male(also performed as Le astuzie di Patacca) dramma giocoso 2 acts Giuseppe Maria Foppa 1794 Rome, ValleLa Rossana melodramma serio 3 acts Aurelio Aureli carnival 1795 Milan, Teatro alla ScalaIl Cinna melodramma serio 2 acts Angelo Anelli 13 June 1795 Padua, Nuovo Anna opera buffa 2 acts June 1795 Padua, NuovoL'intrigo amoroso(also performed as Saed, ossia Gl'intrighi del serraglio and Il male vien dal buco) dramma giocoso 2 acts Giovanni Bertati 4 December 1795 Venice, Teatro San MoisèL'orfana riconosciuta dramma giocoso 2 April 1796 Florence, PergolaL'amante servitore commedia in musica 2 acts Antonio Simeone Sografi Venice, Teatro San MoisèIl principe di Taranto(also performed as La contadina fortunata) dramma giocoso 2 acts Filippo Livigni 11 February 1797 Parma, Teatro DucaleIl fanatico in Berlina 1797 Vienna, Kärntnertortheater Griselda, ossia La virtù al cimento dramma semiserio 2 acts Angelo Anelli after Giovanni Boccaccio January 1798 Parma, Teatro Ducale Camilla, ossia Il sotteraneo dramma semiserio 3 acts Giuseppe Carpani, after Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières' libretto Camille for Nicolas Dalayrac 28 February 1799 Vienna, KärntnertortheaterIl maestro di ballo farsa 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa carnival 1799 Venice, Teatro San MoisèIl morto vivo opera buffa 2 acts Carlo Prospero Defranceschi 12 July 1799 Vienna, KärntnertortheaterLa testa riscaldata farsa 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa 20 January 1800 Venice, Teatro San BenedettoLa sonnambula farsa 1 act Giuseppe Maria Foppa 15 February 1800 Venice, Teatro San Benedetto Ginevra degli Almieri opera tragicomica 4 acts Giuseppe Maria Foppa 2 September 1800 Vienna, Kärntnertortheater Poche ma buone, ossia Le donne cambiate(German: Der lustige Schuster) opera buffa 2 acts Giuseppe Maria Foppa 18 December 1800 Vienna, Kärntnertortheater Achille melodramma eroico 2 acts Giovanni De Gamerra, after Homer 6 June 1801 Vienna, KärntnertortheaterI fuorusciti di Firenze opera semiseria 2 acts Angelo Anelli 27 November 1802 Dresden, Hoftheater Sargino, ossia L'allievo dell'amore dramma eroicomico 2 acts Giuseppe Maria Foppa 26 May 1803 Dresden, Hoftheater Lodoiska dramma eroico 3 acts Francesco Gonella after Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray summer 1804 Bologna, Teatro Comunale Leonora, ossia L'amore conjugale dramma semiserio 2 acts Giovanni Schmidt, after Jean-Nicolas Bouilly's libretto Léonore for Pierre Gaveaux 3 October 1804 Dresden, Hoftheater Sofonisba dramma serio 2 acts Giovanni Schmidt 19 May 1805 Bologna, CorsoIl maniscalco dramma giocoso summer 1805 Florence, Palla a Corda Numa Pompilio dramma serio 3 acts Pietro Bagnoli, after Matteo Noris carnival 1808 Paris, Tuileries Cleopatra 1808 Paris Diana e Endimione, ossia Il ritardo intermezzo Stefano Vestris autumn 1809 Paris, Tuileries Agnese dramma semiserio 2 acts Luigi Buonavoglia after Filippo Casari October 1809 Parma, Villa Douglas-Scotti, Ponte d'AttaroLa Didone abbandonata melodramma serio 2 acts Metastasio 1810 Paris, TuileriesUn pazzo ne fa cento opera buffa 2 acts autumn 1812 Florence, PergolaI Baccanti opera seria 2 acts Gaetano Rossi 7 January 1813 Paris, Tuileries Poche ma buone, ossia La moglie ravveduta farsa comica 1 act Giovanni De Gamerra summer 1813 Rome, ValleL'oriflamme(written in collaboration with Henri-Montan Berton, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Étienne Méhul) opéra 1 act Charles-Guillaume Etienne and Louis-Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian 1 February 1814 Paris, Opéra Oro non compra amore opera buffa 2 acts 1814 Pavia, Quattro SignoriL'eroismo in amore melodramma serio 2 acts Luigi Romanelli 26 December 1815 Milan, La ScalaLa primavera felice opera giocosa 1 act Luigi Balocchi 5 July 1816 Paris, ItalienLe maître de chapelle, ou Le souper imprévu opéra comique 2 acts Sophie Gay, after Alexandre Duval 29 March 1821 Paris, Théâtre Feydeau Blanche de Provence, ou La cour des fées(written in collaboration with Henri-Montan Berton, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Luigi Cherubini and Rodolphe Kreutzer) opéra 3 acts Emmanuel Théaulon and Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé 1 May 1821 Paris, TuileriesLa marquise de Brinvilliers(written in collaboration with Daniel Auber, Désiré-Alexandre Batton, Henri-Montan Berton, Giuseppe Felice Blangini, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Michele Carafa, Luigi Cherubini and Ferdinand Hérold) opéra comique 3 acts Eugène Scribe and Castile-Blaze31 October 1831 Paris, Opéra-Comique(Salle Ventadour)Un caprice de femme opéra comique 1 act Jean-Pierre Lesguillon 23 July 1834 Paris, Opéra-comique(Salle de la Bourse)
Sources Budden, Julian (1992), 'Paer, Ferdinando' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London)