List of operas by Pacini

Last updated April 19, 2019

This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Giovanni Pacini (1796–1867).

Giovanni Pacini was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas. The family was of Tuscan origin, and just happened to be in Catania when the composer was born.

List

Title	Genre	Acts	Libretto	Première date	Place, theatre
Don Pomponio	opera buffa			composed 1813, but unperformed
Annetta e Lucindo	farsa	1 act	Francesco Marconi	17 October 1813	Milan, Teatro San Radegonda
La ballerina raggiratrice	opera buffa			Spring 1814	Florence, Teatro alla Pergola
L'ambizione delusa	opera buffa	2 acts	Giuseppe Palomba	Easter 1814	Florence, Teatro alla Pergola
L'escavazione del tesoro	farsa	1 act	Francesco Marconi	18 December 1814	Pisa
Gli sponsali de' silfi	commedia	2 acts	Francesco Marconi	1814–15	Milan, Teatro de' Filodrammatici
Bettina vedova (Il seguito di Ser Marcantonio)	dramma giocoso	2 acts	Angelo Anelli	Spring 1815	Venice, Teatro San Moisè
La Rosina	farsa	1 act	Giuseppe Palomba	Summer 1815	Florence, Teatro alla Pergola
L'ingenua	farsa	1 act	Francesco Marconi	4 May 1816	Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
Il matrimonio per procura	dramma giocoso	1 act	Giordano Scannamusa and Angelo Anelli	2 January 1817	Milan, Teatro Rè
	farsa	1 act	Gasparo Scopabirbe and Angelo Anelli	1816–1817, revision 23 February 1817	Milan, Teatro Rè
Piglia il mondo come viene	dramma giocoso	2 acts	Angelo Anelli	28 May 1817	Milan, Teatro Rè
Adelaide e Comingio (also as: Isabella e Florange, Il comingio, Comingio pittore)	opera semiseria	2 acts	Gaetano Rossi	30 December 1817	Milan, Teatro Rè
Atala	opera seria	3 acts	Antonio Peracchi after Chateaubriand	June 1818	Padua, Teatro Nuovo
Gl'illinesi	opera seria		Felice Romani	composed 1818, but unperformed
	opera semiseria	2 acts	Felice Romani after Pigault Le Brun	23 September 1818	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
La sposa fedele	opera semiseria	2 acts	Gaetano Rossi	14 January 1819	Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
Il falegname di Livonia	dramma giocoso	2 acts		12 April 1819	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
Vallace, o L'eroe scozzese (also as: Odoardo I re d'Inghilterra)	opera seria	2 acts	Felice Romani	14 February 1820	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
La sacerdotessa d'Irminsul	eroico	2 acts	Felice Romani	11 May 1820	Trieste, Teatro Grande
	dramma giocoso	2 acts	Vincenzo Pezzi	28 October 1820	Turin, Teatro Carignano
	dramma giocoso	2 acts	Filippo Tarducci	26 December 1820	Rome, Teatro Valle
Cesare in Egitto	eroico	2 acts	Jacopo Ferretti	26 December 1821	Rome, Teatro Argentina
La vestale	opera seria	2 acts		6 February 1823	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
Temistocle	opera seria	2 acts	Pietro Anguillesi after Metastasio	23 August 1823	Lucca, Teatro del Giglio
Isabella ed Enrico	opera semiseria	2 acts	Luigi Romanelli	12 June 1824	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
Alessandro nelle Indie	opera seria	2 acts	Giovanni Schmidt after Metastasio	29 September 1824	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Amazilia	opera seria	1 act	Giovanni Schmidt	6 July 1825	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
L'ultimo giorno di Pompei	opera seria	2 acts		19 November 1825	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
La gelosia corretta	opera semiseria	3 acts	Luigi Romanelli	27 March 1826	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
Niobe	opera seria	2 acts	Andrea Leone Tottola	19 November 1826	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
	opera seria	2 acts		8 March 1827	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
Margherita regina d'Inghilterra (also as: Margherita d'Anjou)	opera seria	2 acts	Andrea Leone Tottola	19 November 1827	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
I cavalieri di Valenza	tragico	2 acts	Gaetano Rossi	11 June 1828	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
	opera seria	2 acts	Calisto Bassi	13 November 1828	Trieste, Teatro Grande
	opera storica	3 acts	Gaetano Barbieri after Walter Scott	10 June 1829	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
	romantico	3 acts	Domenico Gilardoni after Walter Scott	19 November 1829	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Giovanna d'Arco	opera seria	Introduction and 4 acts		14 March 1830	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
Il corsaro	romantico	2 acts	Jacopo Ferretti after Byron	15 January 1831	Rome, Teatro Apollo
	opera seria		Luigi Romanelli	composed 1831, but unperformed
Ivanhoe	opera seria	2 acts	Gaetano Rossi after Walter Scott	19 March 1832	Venice, Teatro La Fenice
	farsa	2 acts	Giovanni Bertati after Tirso de Molina	1832	Viareggio, Casa Belluomini
	opera seria	2 acts	Gaetano Rossi	12 January 1833	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Fernando duca di Valenza	opera seria	1 act	Paolo Pola	30 May 1833	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Irene, o L'assedio di Messina	opera seria	3 acts	Gaetano Rossi	30 November 1833	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Carlo di Borgogna	romantico	3 acts	Gaetano Rossi	21 February 1835	Venice, Teatro La Fenice
La foresta d'Hermanstadt	opera buffa		Uncertain	1839	Viareggio, private performances
Furio Camillo	tragico	3 acts	Jacopo Ferretti	26 December 1839	Rome, Teatro Apollo
Saffo	tragedia lirica	3 acts		29 November 1840	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
L'uomo del mistero	opera semiseria	2 acts	Domenico Andreotti after Walter Scott	9 November 1841	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
	tragedia lirica	2 acts		26 February 1842	Venice, Teatro La Fenice
La fidanzata corsa	tragico	3 acts		10 December 1842	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Maria, regina d'Inghilterra	tragedia lirica	3 acts	Leopoldo Tarantini after Victor Hugo	11 February 1843	Palermo, Teatro Carolino
Medea (revised for Vicenza in 1845)	melodramma tragico	3 acts	Benedetto Castiglia after Euripides	28 November 1843	Palermo, Teatro Carolino
Luisetta, ossia La cantatrice del molo di Napoli	commedia	2 acts	Leopoldo Tarantini	13 December 1843	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
L'ebrea	opera seria	3 acts		27 February 1844	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
Lorenzino de' Medici (revised as: Rolandino di Torresmondo)	tragedia lirica	2 acts		4 March 1845	Venice, Teatro La Fenice
Bondelmonte^[1] (later known as Buondelmonte)	tragedia lirica	3 acts	Salvadore Cammarano after Voltaire	18 June 1845	Florence, Teatro alla Pergola
Stella di Napoli	dramma lirico	3 acts	Salvadore Cammarano	11 December 1845	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
La regina di Cipro	dramma lirico	4 acts	Francesco Guidi	7 February 1846	Turin, Teatro Regio
Merope	tragedia lirica	3 acts		25 November 1847	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Ester d'Engaddi	opera seria	3 acts	Francesco Guidi after Silvio Pellico	1 February 1848	Turin, Teatro Regio
Allan Cameron	opera seria	4 acts	Francesco Maria Piave	18 March 1848	Venice, Teatro La Fenice
L'orfana svizzera	opera semiseria		Francesco Rubino	1848	Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Zaffira, o La riconciliazione	opera semiseria	3 acts	Achille de Lauzières	15 November 1851	Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Malvina di Scozia	tragedia lirica	3 acts		27 December 1851	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
	opera seria			composed in 1852(?), but unperformed
Rodrigo di Valenza^[2]	opera seria
Il Cid	opera seria	3 acts		12 March 1853	Milan, Teatro alla Scala
Lidia di Brabante^[3]	opera seria	3 acts		1853	Palermo, Teatro Carolino
Romilda di Provenza	opera seria	3 acts	Gaetano Micci	8 December 1853	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
La donna delle isole	opera seria	3 acts	Francesco Maria Piave
La punizione^[4]	opera seria		Giuseppe Cencetti and Cesare Perrini	8 March 1854	Venice, Teatro La Fenice
Margherita Pusterla	opera seria	2 acts	Domenico Bolognese after Cesare Cantù	25 February 1856	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
I portoghesi nel Brasile	opera seria		Achille de Lauzières	composed 1856, but unperformed?	For Rio de Janeiro, Teatro Italiano
Il saltimbanco	dramma lirico	3 acts	Giuseppe Checchetelli	24 May 1858	Rome, Teatro Argentina
Lidia di Bruxelles^[5]	opera seria	3 acts		21 October 1858	Bologna, Teatro Comunale
Gianni di Nisida	opera seria	4 acts	Giuseppe Checchetelli	29 October 1860	Rome, Teatro Argentina
Il mulattiere di Toledo	commedia lirico	5 acts	Giuseppe Cencetti	25 May 1861	Rome, Teatro Apollo
Belfagor	opera semiseria	Prologue and 4 acts		1 December 1861	Florence, Teatro alla Pergola
Carmelita^[6]	opera seria	3 acts		composed 1863, but unperformed
Don Diego di Mendoza	opera fantastica	3 acts		12 January 1867	Venice, Teatro La Fenice
Berta di Varnol	opera seria	3 acts	Francesco Maria Piave	6 April 1867	Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Niccolò de' Lapi	melodramma tragico	3 acts		29 October 1873	Florence, Teatro Pagliano

Doubtful attributions to Pacini

La chiarina (Carnival (1815–1816 San Moisè, Venice) [probable confusion with work by Giuseppe Farinelli]
I virtuosi di teatro (1817 private performance, Venice) [possibly by Simon Mayr]
La bottega di caffè (1817 private performance, Venice) [possibly by Francesco Gardi]

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References

Notes

↑ English translation of the libretto ^{[ permanent dead link ]} from giovanni.net. Retrieved 13 December 2012
↑ Probably an earlier version of Il Cid.
↑ Possibly the original version of Lidia di Bruxelles (1858).
↑ Originally composed as Lidia di Brabante for Teatro Carolino, Palermo in 1853; revised as Lidia di Bruxelles and Niccolò de' Lapi.
↑ The same work as Niccolò de' Lapi prepared in 1857 for Rio de Janeiro but not performed; posthumous premiere 29 October 1873 with original title Lidia di Bruxelles simply crossed out on score at Teatro Pagliano, Florence.
↑ Identical to Don Diego de Mendoza.

Sources

Rose, Michael and Balthazar, Scott L (1992), 'Pacini, Giovanni' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera , ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7

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[1] English translation of the libretto ^{[ permanent dead link ]} from giovanni.net. Retrieved 13 December 2012

[2] Probably an earlier version of Il Cid.

[3] Possibly the original version of Lidia di Bruxelles (1858).

[4] Originally composed as Lidia di Brabante for Teatro Carolino, Palermo in 1853; revised as Lidia di Bruxelles and Niccolò de' Lapi.

[5] The same work as Niccolò de' Lapi prepared in 1857 for Rio de Janeiro but not performed; posthumous premiere 29 October 1873 with original title Lidia di Bruxelles simply crossed out on score at Teatro Pagliano, Florence.

[6] Identical to Don Diego de Mendoza.