List of operas by Friedrich von Flotow
Appearance
This is a list of the complete operas of the German opera composer Friedrich von Flotow (1812–1883).
List
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre |
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Pierre et Catherine | 2 acts | Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges | 1835, in German, as Peter und Kathinka | Ludwigslust | |
Die Bergknappen | 2 acts | Theodor Körner | Composed ca. 1833, but unperformed | ||
Alfred der Große | 2 acts | Theodor Körner | Composed ca. 1833-1835, but unperformed | ||
Rob-Roy (or Rob le Barbe) |
opéra comique | 1 act | Paul Duport and Pierre Jean Baptiste Choudard Desforges, after Walter Scott | September 1836 | Royaumont Abbey |
Sérafine | opéra comique | 2 acts | Desforges, after Frédéric Soulier | 30 October 1836 | Royaumont |
Alice | opéra comique | 2 acts | Comte Honoré de Sussy and Darnay de Laperrière | 8 April 1837 | Paris, Hôtel Castellane |
La lettre du préfet; revised 1868 |
opéra comique | 1 act | Edouard Bergounioux | 1837 | Paris, Salon Gressier |
Le comte de Saint-Mégrin; rev. 1840 as Le duc de Guise |
opéra | 3 acts | François de la Bouillerie and Charles de la Bouillerie, after Alexandre Dumas, père's Henri III et sa cour | 10 June 1838 | Royaumont |
Lady Melvil | opéra comique | 3 acts | Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Adolphe de Leuven | 15 November 1838 | Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance |
L'âme en peine (perhaps originally performed as L'âme jalouse?) |
opéra | 2 acts | Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges | 29 June 1846 | Paris, Opéra |
L'eau merveilleuse | opéra bouffe | 2 acts | Thomas-Marie-François Sauvage | 30 January 1839 | Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance |
Le naufrage de la Méduse | opéra | 2 acts | Hippolyte Cogniard and Théodore Cogniard | 31 May 1839 | Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance |
Les pages de Louis XI | vaudeville | Théodore Barrière and Ferdinand de Villeneuve | 6 February 1840 | Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance | |
L'esclave de Carmoëns (revised in 1852 as Indra, das Schlangenmädchen; revised twice in 1878, first as Zora l'enchanteresse and later the same year as Alma l'incantatrice) |
opéra comique | 1 act; revised version (1852): 3 scenes; revised version (1878)/II: 4 acts |
Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges; revised version (1852): Gustav zu Putlitz; revised version (1878)/I: Vernoy de Saint-George; revised version (1878)/II: Achille de Lauzières-Thémines |
1 December 1843; revised version (1852); revised version (1878)/I; revised version (1878)/II |
Paris, Opéra-Comique (1843); Vienna, Kärntnertortheater (1852); Paris (1878)/1; Paris, Théâtre-Italien (1878)/II |
Alessandro Stradella | romantische Oper | 3 acts | Friedrich Wilhelm Riese | 30 December 1844 | Hamburg, Stadttheater |
Martha, oder Der Markt van Richmond | romantisch-komische Oper | 4 acts | Friedrich Wilhelm Riese | 25 November 1847 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
Sophie Katharina, oder Die Großfürstin | romantisch-komische Oper | 4 acts | Charlotte Bich-Pfeiffer | 19 November 1850 | Berlin, Königliche Oper |
Rübezahl | romantische Oper | 3 acts | Gustav zu Putlitz | 13 August 1852 | Retzien near Perleberg |
Albin, oder Der Pflegesohn | 3 acts | Hermann Salomon Mosenthal, after Vaudeville, Les deux Savoyards | 12 February 1856 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater | |
Herzog Johann Albrecht von Mecklenburg, oder Andreas Mylius | 3 acts | Eduard Hobein | 26 May 1857 | Schwerin | |
Pianella | komische Oper | 1 act | Emil Pohl, after Pergolesi, La serva padrona | 27 December 1857 | Schwerin |
La veuve Grapin (revised in 1861 as: Madame Bonjour) |
opéra comique | 1 act | Philippe-Auguste Pittaud de Forges | 21 September 1859 | Paris, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens; second version: 1 June 1861, Vienna, Theater am Franz-Joseph-Kai |
Naida (Le vannier) |
3 acts | Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges and Léon Halévy | 11 December 1865 | St Petersburg | |
Zilda, ou La nuit des dupes | opéra comique | 2 acts | Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Henri Charles Chivot | 28 May 1866 | Paris, Opéra-Comique |
Der Königsschuß | Theodor Schloepke | 22 May 1864 | Schwerin | ||
La châtelaine | 2 acts | M.-A. Grandjean | September 1865 | Vienna, Carltheater | |
Am Runenstein | 2 acts | Richard Genée | 13 April 1868 | Prague, Ständetheater | |
Die Musikanten | komische Oper | 3 acts | Richard Genée | 19 June 1887 | Mannheim, Nationaltheater |
L'ombre | opéra comique | 3 acts | Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Adolphe Charles de Leuven | 7 July 1870 | Paris, Opéra Comique |
La fleur de Harlem, revised as Il fiore d'Arlem | 3 acts | Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Adolphe Charles de Leuven, after Alexandre Dumas, père's La tulipe noire | 1876 | Turin | |
Rosellana | 3 acts | Achille de Lauzières-Thémines | 18 November 1876 | Turin, Vittorio Emanuele | |
Sakuntala | 3 acts | Carlo d'Orneville, after Wolzogen's adaptation of the Abhijñānaśākuntalam by Kālidāsa | incomplete |
References
- Sources
- Cohen, Peter (1992), 'Flotow, Friedrich' 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 Dutch Wikipedia article.