The Operas of Antonio Vivaldi

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This is a complete list of the operas of Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (n. Venezia, 1678– m. Vienna, 1741).

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi claimed to have composed 94 operas.

In fact, fewer than 50 titles have been identified, of which the scores of 20 or so operas survive, wholly or in part.

Moreover, the practice of reviving works under a different title and of creating pasticci has confused musicologists -- and other.

All Vivaldi's works are described as "dramma per musica" ("melodramma"), approximately equivalent to "opera seria". He wrote no comedies. Does this say something about his personality. It doesn't.

I have used the following Key:

music completely lost

music preserved at least in part

RV Title Libretto Première date Place, theatre Notes


1713.

729

"Ottone in villa"
Libretto: Lalli, Domenico Lalli
1713-05-00May 1713 Vicenza,
Teatro di Piazza

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727
Orlando finto pazzo BraccioliGrazio Braccioli
1714
11-00November 1714 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo

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724
"Nerone fatto Cesare"
NorisMatteo Noris
1715
-03-00Carnival 1715 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo pasticcio (Francesco Gasparini, Giuseppe Maria Orlandini, Carlo Francesco Pollarolo, Vivaldi)

706
La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii MarchiAntonio Marchi
1715
-03-00Carnival 1716 Venice, Teatro San Moisè reworked as Artabano, re dei Parti (RV 701) in 1718, then as Doriclea (RV 708) in 1732

700
Arsilda, regina di Ponto LalliDomenico Lalli
1716
-10-2727 or 28 October 1716 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo

719
L'incoronazione di Dario
MorselliAdriano Morselli
1717-01-2323 January 1717 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
737 Tieteberga LucchiniAntonio Maria Lucchini 1717-10-1616 October 1717 Venice, Teatro San Moisè
999.58Anh 58 vintoIl vinto trionfante del vincitore MarchiAntonio Marchi 1717-10-00Autumn 1717 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo pasticcio, possibly with some music by Vivaldi
701 Artabano, re dei Parti MarchiAntonio Marchi 1718-03-00Carnival 1718 Venice, Teatro San Moisè reworking of La costanza trionfante (RV 706)
699 Armida al campo d'Egitto PalazziGiovanni Palazzi 1715-03-01Carnival 1718 Venice, Teatro San Moisè. Further performances in Venice on 26 December 1730 and 12 February 1738.[1] reworked as Gl’inganni per vendetta (RV 720) in 1720
732 Scanderbeg SalviAntonio Salvi 1718-06-2222 June 1718 Florence, Teatro della Pergola
736 Teuzzone ZenoApostolo Zeno 1718-12-2828 December 1718 Mantua, Teatro Arciducale
738 Tito Manlio NorisMatteo Noris 1719-03-00Carnival 1719 Mantua, Teatro Arciducale
778 Tito Manlio NorisMatteo Noris 1719-03-00Carnival 1720 Rome, Teatro della Pace pasticcio. Act III only by Vivaldi.
704 CandaceLa Candace, o siano Li veri amici SilvaniFrancesco Silvani and Domenico Lalli 1720-03-00Carnival 1720 Mantua, Teatro Arciducale
720 inganniGl’inganni per vendetta PalazziGiovanni Palazzi or Domenico Lalli 1720-06-001720 Vicenza, Teatro delle Grazie[2][3] reworking of Armida al campo d’Egitto (RV 699)
739 veritàLa verità in cimento PalazziGiovanni Palazzi 1720-10-2626 October (?) 1720 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
715 Filippo re di Macedonia LalliDomenico Lalli 1720-12-2727 December 1720 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo pasticcio
734 SilviaLa Silvia BissariEnrico Bissari 1721-08-2828 August 1721 Milan, Reggio Ducale
710 Ercole su'l Termodonte BussaniGiacomo Francesco Bussani 1723-01-00January 1723 Rome, Teatro Capranica
717 Giustino BereganNicolò Beregan / Pietro Pariati 1724-03-00Carnival 1724 Rome, Teatro Capranica
740 virtùLa virtù trionfante dell’amore, e dell’odio, overo Il Tigrane SilvaniFrancesco Silvani 1724-03-01Carnival 1724 Rome, Teatro Capranica pasticcio (only Act II by Vivaldi)
721 ingannoL’inganno trionfante in amore NorisMatteo Noris 1726-10-00Autumn 1725 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
707 Cunegonda PioveneAgostino Piovene 1726-01-2929 January 1726 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
712 fedeLa fede tradita e vendicata SilvaniFrancesco Silvani 1726-02-1616 February 1726 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
999.55Anh 55 tiranniaLa tirannia castigata SilvaniFrancesco Silvani 1726-03-00Carnival 1726 Prague, Sporck Theater
709 Dorilla in Tempe LucchiniAntonio Maria Lucchini 1726-11-099 November 1726 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo pasticcio
722 Ipermestra SalviAntonio Salvi 1727-01-2525 January 1727 Florence, Teatro della Pergola
711 Farnace LucchiniAntonio Maria Lucchini 1727-02-1010 February 1727 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
735 Siroe, re di Persia Metastasio 1727-05-23Ascension 1727 Reggio Emilia, Teatro Pubblico
728 Orlando furioso BraccioliGrazio Braccioli 1727-10-00Autumn 1727 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
730 Rosilena ed Oronta PalazziGiovanni Palazzi 1728-03-00Carnival 1728 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
702 AtenaideL'Atenaide ZenoApostolo Zeno 1728-12-2929 December 1728 Florence, Teatro della Pergola, 29 December 1728
697 Argippo LalliDomenico Lalli 1730-10-00Autumn 1730 Prague, Sporck Theater seven arias were rediscovered in Regensburg by Ondrej Macek
696 Alvilda regina de' Goti CorradiGiulio Cesare Corradi 1731-04-00Spring 1731 Prague, Sporck Theater only some arias by Vivaldi, probably from other operas
733 Semiramide SilvaniFrancesco Silvani and Domenico Lalli 1731-04-01Carnival 1731 Mantua, Teatro Arciducale
714 fidaLa fida ninfa ScipioneFrancesco Scipione 1732-03-00Carnival 1732 Verona, Teatro Filarmonico
708 Doriclea MarchiAntonio Marchi 1732-99-001732 Prague, Sporck Theater reworking of La costanza trionfante (RV 706)
723 Motezuma GiustiGirolamo Alvise Giusti 1733-11-1414 November 1733 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
725 OlimpiadeL'Olimpiade Metastasio 1734-02-1717 February 1734 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
695 AdelaideL’Adelaide SalviAntonio Salvi 1735-04-00Carnival 1735 Verona, Teatro Filarmonico
703 TamerlanoIl Tamerlano (Il Bajazet) PioveneAgostino Piovene 1735-04-01Carnival 1735 Verona, Teatro Filarmonico pasticcio
718 Griselda ZenoApostolo Zeno / Carlo Goldoni 1735-05-1818 May 1735 Venice, Teatro San Samuele, 18 May 1735
698 Aristide GoldoniCarlo Goldoni 1735-10-00Autumn 1735 Venice, Teatro San Samuele
716 Ginevra principessa di Scozia SalviAntonio Salvi 1736-01-1717 January 1736 Florence, Teatro della Pergola
705 Catone in Utica Metastasio 1737-05-2626 May 1737 Verona, Teatro Filarmonico
726 oracoloL’oracolo in Messenia ZenoApostolo Zeno 1737-12-3030 December 1737 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo
777 Il giorno felice 0? 1737-99-991737 Venice
731 Rosmira (Rosmira fedele) StampigliaSilvio Stampiglia 1738-01-2727 January 1738 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo pasticcio arranged by Vivaldi of music by Hasse, Pergolesi, Handel, etc.)
713 Feraspe SilvaniFrancesco Silvani 1739-00-001739 Venice, Teatro Sant’Angelo

ReferencesCross, Eric (1992), 'Vivaldi, Antonio,' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7
Some of the information in this article is taken from the related French Wikipedia article.
1.^ Amaeus Almanac, accessed 3 September 2008
2.^ L'opéra baroque — Les compositeurs — Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
3.^ Antonio Vivaldi : tableau chronologique
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