List of operas by Mysliveček

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 performed in three acts.

List

Title	Libretto	Date of première	Place, theater
Semiramide	Metastasio	1766-07-00Summer fair, 1766	Bergamo, Teatro di Citadella
BellerofonteIl Bellerofonte	BonecchiGiuseppe Bonecchi	1767-01-2020 January 1767	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Farnace	LucchiniAntonio Maria Lucchini	1767-11-044 November 1767	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
trionfoIl trionfo di Clelia	Metastasio	1767-12-2626 December 1767	Turin, Teatro Regio
Demofoonte (1st version)	Metastasio	1769-01-1717 January 1769	Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
IpermestraL'Ipermestra	Metastasio	1769-03-2727 March 1769	Florence, Teatro della Pergola
NittetiLa Nitteti	Metastasio	1770-04-2929 April 1770	Bologna, Teatro Nuovo Pubblico
Motezuma	CignaVittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi	1771-01-2323 January 1771	Florence, Teatro della Pergola
granIl gran Tamerlano	PioveneAgostino Piovene	1771-12-2626 December 1771	Milan, Teatro Regio Ducal
Demetrio (1st version)	Metastasio	1773-05-2424 May 1773	Pavia, Teatro Nuovo
Romolo ed Ersilia	Metastasio	1773-08-1313 August 1773	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Antigona	RoccaforteGaetano Roccaforte	1773-12-2626 December 1773	Turin, Teatro Regio
clemenzaLa clemenza di Tito	Metastasio	1774-02-05carnival, 1774, by 5 February 1774	Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
Atide	StanzaniTomaso Stanzani, after Philippe Quinault	1774-06-13June 1774, perhaps 13 June	Padua, Teatro Nuovo
Artaserse	Metastasio	1774-08-1313 August 1774	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Demofoonte (2nd version)	Metastasio	1775-01-2020 January 1775	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Ezio (1st version)	Metastasio	1775-05-3030 May 1775	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Adriano in Siria	Metastasio	1776-09-088 September 1776	Florence, Teatro del Cocomero
Ezio (2nd version)	Metastasio	1777-00-001777	Munich, Hoftheater
CalliroeLa Calliroe	VeraziMatteo Verazi	1778-05-3030 May 1778	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
L'Olimpiade	Metastasio	1778-11-044 November 1778	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
CirceLa Circe	PerelliDomenico Perelli	1779-05-1212 May 1779	Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
Demetrio (2nd version)	Metastasio	1779-08-1313 August 1779	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Armida	MigliavaccaGiovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca, after Philippe Quinault	1779-12-2626 December 1779	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
MedonteIl Medonte	GamerraGiovanni de Gamerra	1780-01-2626 January 1780	Rome, Teatro Argentina
Antigono	Metastasio	1780-04-055 April 1780	Rome, 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.^[1] 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.

Recordings

Opera Il Medonte. L'Arte del Mondo. dir. Werner Ehrhardt, dhm, 2011
Opera Il Bellerofonte. Prague Chamber Orchestra dir. Zoltán Peskó, Supraphon, 2003

References

Notes

↑ Documentation of how all of these spurious productions entered the musicological literature is found in Catalog II of Freeman, Josef Mysliveček.

Sources

Daniel E. Freeman, Josef Mysliveček, "Il Boemo": The Man and His Music, Detroit Monographs in Musicology, (Sterling Heights, Mich.: Harmonie Park Press, 2009), pp. 321–32. ISBN 978-0-89990-148-0

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