This is a complete list of the operas of the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781). All of Mysliveček's operas are examples of opera seria (genre: dramma per musica) and in three acts.
List TitleLibrettoDate of premièrePlace, theaterSemiramideMetastasioSummer fair, 1766Bergamo, Teatro di CitadellaIl BellerofonteGiuseppe Bonecchi20 January 1767Naples, Teatro San CarloFarnaceAntonio Maria Lucchini4 November 1767Naples, Teatro San CarloIl trionfo di CleliaMetastasio26 December 1767Turin, Teatro RegioDemofoonte (1st version)Metastasio17 January 1769Venice, Teatro San BenedettoL'IpermestraMetastasio27 March 1769Florence, Teatro della PergolaLa NittetiMetastasio29 April 1770Bologna, Teatro Nuovo PubblicoMotezuma23 January 1771Florence, Teatro della PergolaIl gran TamerlanoAgostino Piovene26 December 1771Milan, Teatro Regio DucaleDemetrio (1st version)Metastasio24 May 1773Pavia, Teatro NuovoRomolo ed ErsiliaMetastasio13 August 1773Naples, Teatro San CarloAntigonaGaetano Roccaforte26 December 1773Turin, Teatro RegioLa clemenza di TitoMetastasiocarnival, 1774, by 5 February 1774Venice, Teatro San BenedettoAtideTommaso Stanzani, after Philippe QuinaultJune 1774, perhaps 13 JunePadua, Teatro NuovoArtaserseMetastasio13 August 1774Naples, Teatro San CarloDemofoonte (2nd version)Metastasio20 January 1775Naples, Teatro San CarloEzio (1st version)Metastasio30 May 1775Naples, Teatro San CarloAdriano in SiriaMetastasio8 September 1776Florence, Teatro del CocomeroEzio (2nd version)Metastasio1777Munich, HoftheaterLa CalliroeMattia Verazi30 May 1778Naples, Teatro San CarloL'OlimpiadeMetastasio4 November 1778Naples, Teatro San CarloLa CirceDomenico Perelli12 May 1779Venice, Teatro San BenedettoDemetrio (2nd version)Metastasio13 August 1779Naples, Teatro San CarloArmidaGiovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca, after Philippe Quinault and Torquato Tasso26 December 1779Milan, Teatro alla ScalaMedonteGiovanni de Gamerra26 January 1780Rome, Teatro ArgentinaAntigonoMetastasio5 April 1780Rome, Teatro delle Dame Note: There is no reason to believe that any of the following productions cited in earlier musicological literature ever took place: Medea (Parma, 1764); Erifile (Munich, 1773); Achille in Sciro (Naples, 1775); and Merope (Naples, 1775). Furthermore, there is no reason to believe that Mysliveček contributed any music to a production of Armida that took place in Lucca in 1778.Documentation of how mention of all of these spurious productions entered the musicological literature is found in Catalog II of Freeman (2022), 479-80 The cantata Il Parnaso confuso is sometimes referred to in error as Mysliveček's first opera. Reports that it was performed in Parma in 1765 are conjectural; there is no documentation to verify its true date of composition or the venue of its first performance.Freeman (2022), 230-32
Recordings Opera Medonte. L'Arte del Mondo. dir. Werner Ehrhardt, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 2011 Opera Il Bellerofonte. Prague Chamber Orchestra dir. Zoltán Peskó, Supraphon, 2003 Opera L'Olimpiade. Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna dir. Oliver von Dohnányi, conductor, Naxos (2014)
References
Further reading Daniel E. Freeman, Josef Mysliveček, "Il Boemo" (Minneapolis: Calumet Editions, 2022), pp. 460–478.