15. Cosi Fan Tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Title Premiere

Apollo et Hyacinthus

Salzburg , Benedictine University , May 13, 1767 latin intermezzo; libretto by Rufinus Widl

La finta semplice
(The Pretended Simpleton)

Salzburg , Archbishop's Palace, May 1, 1769 opera buffa; libretto by Carlo Goldoni, originally set by Salvatore Perillo, revised by Marco Coltellini

Bastien und Bastienne

Vienna , Dr. Anton Mesmer's house, September/October 1768 Singspiel; libretto by Friedrich Wilhelm Weiskern, Johann Müller and Johann Andreas Schachtner, after Marie-Justine Benoîte Favart, Charles-Simon Favart and Harny de Guerville's Les amours de Bastien et Bastienne

Mitridate, re di Ponto (Mitridate, King of Ponto)

Milan , Regio Ducal, December 26, 1770 dramma per musica; libretto by Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi after Giuseppe Pavini's Italian translation of Jean Racine's Mithridate

Ascanio in Alba

Milan , Regio Ducal, October 17, 1771 festa teatrale; libretto by Giuseppe Parini

Il sogno di Scipione (The Dream of Scipio)

Salzburg , Archbishop's Palace, May 1772 (The Dream of Scipio) azione teatrale; libretto by Pietro Metastasio, originally set by Angelo Predieri, after Cicero

Lucio Silla

Milan , Regio Ducal, December 26, 1772 dramma per musica; libretto by Giovanni de Gamerra

La finta giardiniera (The Pretended Garden-Girl)

Munich , Salvator, January 13, 1775 opera buffa; librettist unknown; attributed to Giuseppe Petrosellini

Il re pastore (The Shepherd King)

Salzburg , Archbishop's Palace, April 23, 1775 serenata; libretto by Pietro Metastasio

Zaide

(uncompleted; composed in Salzburg , 1779-80) Singspiel; libretto by Johann Andreas Schachtner, after F. J. Sebastiani's Das Serail

Idomeneo, re di Creta (Idomeneo, King of Crete)

Munich , Residenz, January 29, 1781 dramma per musica; Gianbattista Varesco, after Antoine Danchet's Idomenée

Die Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio)

Vienna , Burgtheater, July 16, 1782 Singspiel; after Christoph Friedrich Bretzner's libretto for Belmont und Constanze, revised by Gottlieb Stephanie the younger

L'oca del Cairo (The Goose of Cairo)

unperformed, composed 1783 opera buffa; libretto by Gianbattista Varesco

Lo sposo deluso (The Deluded Bridegroom)

unperformed, composed 1783 opera buffa; librettist unknown, after Le donne rivali

Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)

Vienna , Schönbrunn Palace , February 7, 1786 Singspiel; libretto by Gottlieb Stephanie the younger

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro)

Vienna , Burgtheater, May 1, 1786 opera buffa; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte, after Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais' La folle journée, ou Le mariage de Figaro

Don Giovanni

Prague , National Theatre, October 29, 1787 opera buffa; libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte

Così fan tutte (All Women do the Same)

Vienna , Burgtheater, January 26, 1790 opera buffa; libretto by Lozenzo da Ponte

La clemenza di Tito (The Clemency of Titus)

Prague , National Theater, September 6, 1791 opera seria; libretto by Pietro Metastasio, revised by Caterino Mazzolà

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Vienna , Theater auf der Wieden, September 30, 1791 Singspiel; libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder

Courtesy of Minnesota Opera

1. Madama Butterfly
2. La bohème
3. La traviata
4. Carmen
5. The Barber of Seville
6. The Marriage of Figaro
7. Don Giovanni
8. Tosca
9. Rigoletto
10. The Magic Flute
11. La Cenerentola
12. Turandot
13. Lucia di Lammermoor
14. Pagliacci
15. Cosî fan tutte
16. Aida
17. Il trovatore
18. Faust
19. Die Fledermaus
20. The Elixir of Love