List of operas by Gaetano Donizetti

The Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (1797–1848) is best known for his operas, of which he wrote about 75 from 1816 to 1845.

## List of operas

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Operas by Gaetano Donizetti[1] Title  | Genre  | Acts  | Libretto  | Premiere[2]

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Il Pigmalione | scena drammatica | 1 act |  | 13 October 1960, completed 1816 | Bergamo, Teatro Donizetti
Olimpiade |  |  | Metastasio's L'Olimpiade | incomplete, composed 1817[3] |
L'ira di Achille [de] |  | 1 act |  | incomplete, composed 1817[4] |
Enrico di Borgogna | melodramma | 2 acts | Bartolomeo Merelli | 14 November 1818 | Venice, Teatro San Luca
Una follia | farsa | 1 act | Bartolomeo Merelli | 17 December 1818, lost | Venice, Teatro San Luca
I piccioli virtuosi ambulanti[a] | opera buffa | 1 act |  | 1819[5] |
Il falegname di Livonia, o Pietro il grande, czar delle Russie | opera buffa | 2 acts | Gherardo Bevilacqua-Aldobrandini | 26 December 1819 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele
Le nozze in villa | opera buffa | 2 acts | Bartolomeo Merelli | carnival 1820–1821, completed 1819 | Mantua, Teatro Vecchio
Zoraida di Granata | melodramma eroico | 2 acts | Bartolomeo Merelli; revised for Rome 1824 by Jacopo Ferretti[6] | 28 January 1822 | Rome, Teatro Argentina, rev. 7 January 1824 at the same theatre
La zingara | dramma | 2 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola | 12 May 1822 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
La lettera anonima | farsa | 1 act | Giulio Genoino [it] | 29 June 1822 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Chiara e Serafina, o Il pirata | melodramma semiserio | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Pixérécourt's La cisterne | 26 October 1822 | Milan, La Scala
Alfredo il grande | dramma per musica | 2 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola | 2 July 1823 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Il fortunato inganno | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola | 3 September 1823 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
L'ajo nell'imbarazzo
[see also Don Gregorio] | melodramma giocoso | 2 acts | Jacopo Ferretti, after Giovanni Giraud's comedy | 4 February 1824 | Rome, Teatro Valle
Emilia di Liverpool
[see also L'eremitaggio di Liverpool] | dramma semiserio | 2 acts | anonymous, after S. Scatizzi's Emilia de Laverpaut | 28 July 1824 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Alahor in Granata | dramma | 2 acts | M. A. | 7 January 1826 | Palermo, Teatro Carolino [it]
Don Gregorio
[rev of L'ajo nell'imbarazzo] | melodramma giocoso | 2 acts | Jacopo Ferretti | 11 June 1826 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Elvida | dramma | 1 act | Giovanni F. Schmidt[7] | 6 July 1826 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Gabriella di Vergy | tragedia lirica | 3 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola, after Dormont de Belloy | 29 November 1869, completed 1826 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Olivo e Pasquale | melodramma giocoso | 2 acts | Jacopo Ferretti, after Simeone Antonio Sografi | 7 January 1827 | Rome, Teatro Valle
Otto mesi in due ore, ossia Gli esiliati in Siberia | opera romantica | 3 acts | Domenico Gilardoni, after Pixérécourt's La fille de l'exilé | 13 May 1827 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Il borgomastro di Saardam | melodramma giocoso | 2 acts | Domenico Gilardoni, after Mélesville, Jean-Toussaint Merle and Eugène Cantiran de Boirie | 19 August 1827 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Le convenienze teatrali
[see also Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali] | farsa | 1 act | Gaetano Donizetti, after Simeone Antonio Sografi | 21 November 1827 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
L'esule di Roma, ossia Il proscritto | melodramma eroico | 2 acts | Domenico Gilardoni, after Luigi Marchionni's Il proscritto romano | 1 January 1828 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
L'eremitaggio di Liverpool
[rev of Emilia di Liverpool][8] | melodramma semiserio[9] | 2 acts | Giuseppe Checcherini, after Scatizzi | 8 March 1828 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Alina, regina di Golconda | melodramma | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Sedaine's libretto for Monsigny's opera-ballet Aline, reine de Golconde[10] | 12 May 1828 | Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice
Gianni di Calais | melodramma semiserio | 3 acts | Domenico Gilardoni, after a novel by Arlincourt[11] | 2 August 1828 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Il paria | melodramma | 2 acts | Domenico Gilardoni, after Delavigne | 12 January 1829 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Il giovedì grasso, o Il nuovo Pourceaugnac | farsa[12] | 1 act | Domenico Gilardoni | 26 February 1829 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth | melodramma | 3 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola, after Scribe's Leicester and Hugo's Amy Robsart | 6 July 1829 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Alina, regina di Golconda [rev] | melodramma | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Sedaine | 10 October 1829 | Rome, Teatro Valle[10]
I pazzi per progetto | farsa[13] | 1 act | Domenico Gilardoni | 6 February 1830 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Il diluvio universale | azione tragica-sacra | 3 acts | Domenico Gilardoni, after Byron's Heaven and Earth and Francesco Ringhieri's tragedy Il diluvio | 6 March 1830[14] | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Imelda de' Lambertazzi | melodramma tragico | 2 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola | 5 September 1830 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Anna Bolena | tragedia lirica | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Pindemonte's tragedy Enrico VIII, ossia Anna Bolena and Alessandro Pepoli's Anna Bolena[15] | 26 December 1830 | Milan, Teatro Carcano
Gianni di Parigi | melodramma comico[16] | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Saint-Just's libretto for Boieldieu's opéra-comique Jean de Paris | 10 September 1839, composed c. 1828–1831[17] | Milan, La Scala
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali
[rev of Le convenienze teatrali] | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Donizetti, after Sografi | 20 April 1831 | Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana
Francesca di Foix | melodramma | 1 act | Domenico Gilardoni, after a libretto by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly and Emmanuel Mercier-Dupaty for Henri-Montan Berton's 3-act opéra-comique Françoise de Foix.[18] | 30 May 1831 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
La romanziera e l'uomo nero
(or La romanzesca e l'uomo nero) | farsa | 1 act | Domenico Gilardoni | 18 June 1831 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo (arias and ensembles survive but spoken dialogue is lost)
Fausta | melodramma | 2 acts | Domenico Gilardoni and Donizetti | 12 January 1832 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Ugo, conte di Parigi | tragedia lirica | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Hippolyte-Louis-Florent Bis: Blanche d'Aquitaine | 13 March 1832 | Milan, La Scala
L'elisir d'amore | melodramma giocoso | 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Scribe's libretto for Auber's Le philtre | 12 May 1832 | Milan, Teatro alla Canobbiana
Sancia di Castiglia | tragedia lirica | 2 acts | Pietro Salatino | 4 November 1832 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo | melodramma | 2 acts | Jacopo Ferretti, after an anonymous play on Cervantes' Don Quixote | 2 January 1833 | Rome, Teatro Valle
Otto mesi in due ore [rev] | opera romantica | 3 acts | Antonio Alcozer after Domenico Gilardoni | 1833 | Livorno
Parisina | melodramma | 3 acts | Felice Romani, after Byron | 17 March 1833 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Torquato Tasso | melodramma | 3 acts | Jacopo Ferretti | 9 September 1833 | Rome, Teatro Valle
Lucrezia Borgia | melodramma | prologue & 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo | 26 December 1833 | Milan, La Scala
Il diluvio universale [rev] | azione tragico-sacra | 3 acts | anonymous, after Domenico Gilardoni | 17 January 1834 | Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice
Rosmonda d'Inghilterra | melodramma serio | 2 acts | Felice Romani | 27 February 1834 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Maria Stuarda | tragedia lirica | 2 acts (or 3) | Giuseppe Bardari, after Andrea Maffei's translation of Schiller[19] | 30 December 1835 (in 3 acts), completed August 1834 | Milan, La Scala
Buondelmonte
[rev of Maria Stuarda] | tragedia lirica | 2 acts | Pietro Salatino | 18 October 1834 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Gemma di Vergy | tragedia lirica | 2 acts | Giovanni Emanuele Bidera, after the play Charles VII by Dumas[20] | 26 December 1834 | Milan, La Scala
Marino Faliero | tragedia lirica | 3 acts | Giovanni Emanuele Bidera with revisions by Agostino Ruffini, after Casimir Delavigne's adaptation of Byron's play Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice[20] | 12 March 1835 | Paris, Théâtre-Italien
Lucia di Lammermoor
[see also Lucie de Lammermoor] | dramma tragico | 3 acts | Salvadore Cammarano, after Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor | 26 September 1835 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Belisario | tragedia lirica | 3 acts | Salvadore Cammarano, after Eduard von Schenk as translated by Luigi Marchionni | 4 February 1836 | Venice, La Fenice
Il campanello di notte | melodramma giocoso | 1 act | Donizetti, after the vaudeville La sonnette de nuit by Léon Lévy Brunswick (Léon Lhérie), Mathieu-Barthélemy Troin [Wikidata], and Victor Lhérie | 1 June 1836 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
Betly, o La capanna svizzera | dramma giocoso | 1 act | Donizetti, after Scribe's and Mélesville's libretto for Adam's Le chalet | 21 August 1836 | Naples, Teatro Nuovo
L'assedio di Calais | dramma lirico | 3 acts | Salvadore Cammarano, after Dormont de Belloy | 19 November 1836 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Pia de' Tolomei | tragedia lirica | 2 acts | Salvadore Cammarano, after Bartolomeo Sestini, and Dante's La commedia | 18 February 1837 | Venice, Teatro Apollo
Pia de' Tolomei [rev] | tragedia lirica | 2 acts | Salvadore Cammarano, after Bartolomeo Sestini, and Dante's La commedia | 31 July 1837 | Sinigaglia
Betly [rev] | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Donizetti | 29 September 1837 | Naples, Teatro del Fondo
Roberto Devereux | tragedia lirica | 3 acts | Salvadore Cammarano, after Jacques-François Ancelot's tragedy Elisabeth d'Angleterre | 28 October 1837 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Maria de Rudenz | dramma tragico | 3 acts | Salvadore Cammarano, after the play La nonne sanglante by Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois, Cuvelier and Maillan | 30 January 1838 | Venice, La Fenice
Gabriella di Vergy [rev] | tragedia lirica | 3 acts | Andrea Leone Tottola, after Dormont de Belloy | August 1978 recording, composed 1838 | London
Poliuto
[see also Les martyrs] | tragedia lirica | 3 acts | Salvadore Cammarano, after Pierre Corneille | 30 November 1848, completed July 1838 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Pia de' Tolomei [rev 2] | tragedia lirica | 2 acts | anonymous revision of Cammarano's libretto | May 1838[21] | Rome, Teatro Argentina[21]
Lucie de Lammermoor
[rev of Lucia di Lammermoor, in French] | grand opéra[22] | 3 acts (or 4)[22] | Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, after the Italian libretto | 6 August 1839 | Paris, Théâtre de la Renaissance
Le duc d'Albe
[see also Il duca d'Alba] | grand opéra | 4 acts | Charles Duveyrier and Eugène Scribe | incomplete, composed 1839[23] |
L'Ange de Nisida
[see also La favorite] | opera semiseria | 4 parts | Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz |  18 July 2018  Completed 27 December 1839[24] | Royal Opera House, London
Lucrezia Borgia [rev] | dramma per musica | prologue & 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo | 11 January 1840 | Milan, La Scala
Les martyrs
[rev of Poliuto, in French] | grand opéra | 4 acts | Eugène Scribe's revision and expansion of Cammarano's original libretto | 10 April 1840 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier
La fille du régiment | opéra comique | 2 acts | Jean-François-Alfred Bayard and Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges | 11 February 1840 | Paris, Opéra-Comique
Lucrezia Borgia [rev 2] | dramma per musica | prologue & 2 acts | Felice Romani, after Victor Hugo | 31 October 1840 | Paris, Théâtre-Italien
La favorite
[rev of L'ange de Nisida] | grand opéra | 4 acts | Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz and Eugène Scribe | 2 December 1840 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier
Adelia | melodramma serio | 3 acts | Felice Romani (Acts 1 & 2) and Girolamo Marini (Act 3), after an anonymous French play[25] | 11 February 1841 | Rome, Teatro Apollo
Rita
(subtitled ou Le Mari battu) | opéra comique | 1 act | Gustave Vaëz | 7 May 1860, completed 1841 | Paris, Opéra-Comique
Maria Padilla | melodramma | 3 acts | Gaetano Rossi and Donizetti, after Jacques-François Ancelot | 26 December 1841 | Milan, La Scala
Linda di Chamounix | melodramma semiserio | 3 acts | Gaetano Rossi | 19 May 1842 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater
Linda di Chamounix [rev] | melodramma semiserio | 3 acts | Gaetano Rossi | 17 November 1842 | Paris, Théâtre-Italien
Caterina Cornaro | tragedia lirica | prologue & 2 acts | Giacomo Sacchèro, after Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges' libretto for Halévy's La reine de Chypre | 18 January 1844 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo
Don Pasquale | dramma buffo | 3 acts | Giovanni Ruffini and Donizetti, after Angelo Anelli's Ser Marcantonio; published with credit to "M.A."[26] | 3 January 1843 | Paris, Théâtre-Italien
Maria di Rohan | melodramma tragico | 3 acts | Salvadore Cammarano, after Lockroy (J. P. Simon) and Badon's Un duel sous le Cardinal de Richelieu | 5 June 1843 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater
Dom Sébastien, roi de Portugal | grand opéra | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe, after the play by Paul Foucher | 13 November 1843 | Paris Opera, Salle Le Peletier
Dom Sebastian von Portugal
[rev of Dom Sébastien] | große Oper[27] | 5 acts | Leo Herz's translation of Scribe's libretto | 6 February 1845 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater
Il duca d'Alba [completion by Matteo Salvi of original Le duc d'Albe] | opera | 4 acts[28] | Angelo Zanardini's revision of the original libretto by Duveyrier and Scribe | 22 March 1882 | Rome, Teatro Apollo
Dalinda [de] [3rd and substantial revision of Lucrezia Borgia, intended for Naples, but rejected by the censors; then lost; rediscovered in 2019] | opera seria | 3 acts | Felice Romani | 14 May 2023 (concert)
4 September 2024 (stage)  | Konzerthaus Berlin
Baxter Theatre, Opera UCT[29]

## Notes

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1. ^ Pasticcio performed by Mayr's students

## References

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1. ^ The information in the table is taken from Smart & Budden 2001, unless otherwise noted.
2. ^ Operas are initially listed by date of completion of composition, which usually correlates closely with the date of the premiere. When the date of completion is significantly earlier than the date of the premiere (or there was no premiere), the date of composition is given. However, the column rows sort by the date of the premiere (or by the date of composition, if there is no premiere). To restore the initial state use the browser refresh button.
3. ^ Olimpiade: Donizetti composed the one duet from Metastasio's famous libretto, probably during his student days for his friends. A copyist full score is located in the Museo Donizettiano, Bergamo (Ashbrook 1982, pp. 580–581).
4. ^ L'ira di Achille: Donizetti set the first act and a duet from Act 2 scene v. The libretto, probably by Felice Romani, had previously been set by Giuseppe Nicolini (Milan, 1814). A copyist full score of a bass aria with chorus is listed in the catalog of the Museo Donizettiano, Bergamo (Ashbrook 1982, p. 580).
5. ^ I piccioli virtuosi ambulanti was the title of one of the annual end-of-term pasticcios that were organized by the Bergamo music school's director, the composer Simon Mayr. Donizetti contributed an introduzione and a scene with aria and chorus, which he also used in Le nozze in villa (Ashbrook 1982, p. 581).
6. ^ Allitt 1991, p. 26.
7. ^ Weinstock 1963, p. 36: He notes that Schmidt "wrote more than one hundred librettos"
8. ^ Osborne 1994, p. 158.
9. ^ OCLC 498281465
10. ^ a b Ashbrook 1982, p. 544
11. ^ Steiner-Isenmann 1982, p. 503; Smart & Budden 2001
12. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 547.
13. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 548.
14. ^ Smart & Budden 2001.
15. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 549.
16. ^ OCLC 40787703, 82723197
17. ^ Osborne 1994, p. 198.
18. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 551, and Osborne 1994, p. 200\. Smart & Budden 2001 say Gilardoni's libretto was based on Charles Simon Favart's libretto Ninette à la cour as adapted for Louis Joseph Saint-Amans' 2-act 1791 opéra-comique.
19. ^ Ashbrook & Hibberd 2001, p. 235.
20. ^ a b Ashbrook & Hibberd 2001, p. 236
21. ^ a b Osborne 1994, p. 257
22. ^ a b Lucie de Lammermoor. OCLC 71624699, 18597094.
23. ^ Le duc d'Albe: composed April–October 1839 (Ashbrook 1982, p. 567). See also OCLC 63909833.
24. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 569.
25. ^ Ashbrook 1982, p. 571.
26. ^ Weinstock 1963, pp. 188–189.
27. ^ Dom Sebastian von Portugal. OCLC 79789205.
28. ^ Il duca d'Alba. OCLC 174363469.
29. ^ Allison, John. Report from Cape Town. Opera, Vol.75 No.11, p1547-48.

### Sources

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* Allitt, John Stewart (1991). Donizetti: In the Light of Romanticism and the Teaching of Johann Simon Mayr. Shaftesbury and Rockport, Massacusetts: Element Books.
* Ashbrook, William (1982). Donizetti and His Operas. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-23526-X.
* Ashbrook, William; Hibberd, Sarah (2001). "Gaetano Donizetti". In Amanda Holden (ed.). The New Penguin Opera Guide. New York: Penguin Putnam. pp. 224–247. ISBN 0-14-029312-4.
* Osborne, Charles (1994). The Bel Canto Operas of Rossini, Donizetti, and Bellini. Portland, Oregon: Amadeus Press. ISBN 0-931340-71-3.
* Smart, Mary Ann; Budden, Julian (2001). "Donizetti, (Domenico) Gaetano (Maria)". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.51832. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.
* Steiner-Isenmann, Robert (1982). Gaetano Donizetti: sein Leben und seine Opern (in German). Bern: Hallwag. ISBN 9783444102721.
* Weinstock, Herbert (1963). Donizetti and the World of Opera in Italy, Paris, and Vienna in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. New York: Pantheon Books. ISBN 978-0394422374. OCLC 601625 - via Internet Archive.

## External links

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* List of Donizetti operas at opera.stanford.edu
* Free scores by Gaetano Donizetti at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)

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List of operas

Operas|

* Il Pigmalione (1816)
* Olimpiade (1817)
* L'ira di Achille (1817)
* Enrico di Borgogna (1818)
* Una follia (1818)
* I piccioli virtuosi ambulanti (1819)
* Il falegname di Livonia (1819)
* Le nozze in villa (1820)
* Zoraida di Granata (1822)
* La zingara (1822)
* La lettera anonima (1822)
* Chiara e Serafina, o Il pirata (1822)
* Alfredo il grande (1823)
* Il fortunato inganno (1823)
* L'ajo nell'imbarazzo (1824)
* Emilia di Liverpool (1824)
* Alahor in Granata (1826)
* Don Gregorio (1826)
* Elvida (1826)
* Gabriella di Vergy (1826)
* Olivo e Pasquale (1827)
* Otto mesi in due ore (1827)
* Il borgomastro di Saardam (1827)
* Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (1827)
* L'esule di Roma (1828)
* L'eremitaggio di Liverpool (1828)
* Alina, regina di Golconda (1828)
* Gianni di Calais (1828)
* Il paria (1829)
* Il giovedì grasso (1829)
* Elisabetta al castello di Kenilworth (1829)
* I pazzi per progetto (1830)
* Il diluvio universale (1830)
* Imelda de' Lambertazzi (1830)
* Anna Bolena (1830)
* Gianni di Parigi (1828-31)
* Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali (1831)
* Francesca di Foix (1831)
* La romanziera e l'uomo nero (1831)
* Fausta (1832)
* Ugo, conte di Parigi (1832)
* L'elisir d'amore (1832)
* Sancia di Castiglia (1832)
* Il furioso all'isola di San Domingo (1833)
* Otto mesi in due ore (1833)
* Parisina (1833)
* Torquato Tasso (1833)
* Lucrezia Borgia (1833)
* Il diluvio universale (1834)
* Rosmonda d'Inghilterra (1834)
* Maria Stuarda (1834)
* Buondelmonte (1834)
* Gemma di Vergy (1834)
* Marino Faliero (1835)
* Lucia di Lammermoor (1835)
* Belisario (1836)
* Il campanello (1836)
* Betly, o La capanna svizzera (1836)
* L'assedio di Calais (1836)
* Pia de' Tolomei (1837)
* Roberto Devereux (1837)
* Maria de Rudenz (1838)
* Poliuto (1838)
* Pia de' Tolomei (1838)
* Lucie de Lammermoor (1839)
* Le duc d'Albe (1839)
* L'Ange de Nisida (1839)
* Lucrezia Borgia (1840)
* Les martyrs (1840)
* La fille du régiment (1840)
* La favorite (1840)
* Adelia (1841)
* Rita (1841)
* Maria Padilla (1841)
* Linda di Chamounix (1842)
* Caterina Cornaro (1844)
* Don Pasquale (1843)
* Maria di Rohan (1843)
* Dom Sébastien (1843)

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* Requiem (1835)

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