List of operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer

The following is a list of operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864).

## List of operas

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Operas by Giacomo Meyerbeer  Title  | Genre  | Language  | Acts  | Libretto  | Premiere  | Notes

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Der Admiral, oder der verlorne Prozess | comic opera | German |  |  | Written 1811, never performed[1] |  |
Jephtas Gelübde | Ernsthafte Oper (Singspiel)[2] | German | 3 acts | Aloys Schreiber, based on the biblical story of Jephthah | 23 December 1812 | Hoftheater, Munich |
Wirth und Gast, oder Aus Scherz Ernst | Lustspiel mit Gesang | German | 2 acts |  Johann Gottfried Wollbrück | 6 January 1813 | Stuttgart | Produced in Vienna in 1814 as Alimelek, oder Die beiden Kalifen
Das Brandenburger Tor [de] | Singspiel | German | 1 act |  Johann Emanuel Veith | 7 August 1814 | Schauspielhaus Berlin |
Romilda e Costanza | melodramma semiserio[3] | Italian | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi | 19 July 1817 | Padua |
Semiramide riconosciuta | dramma per musica[4] | Italian | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi, after Metastasio[5] | 3 February 1819[6] | Teatro Regio, Turin |
Emma di Resburgo | melodramma eroico[7] | Italian | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi | 26 June 1819 | Teatro San Benedetto, Venice |
Margherita d'Anjou | melodramma semiserio | Italian | 2 acts | Felice Romani after René Charles Guilbert de Pixérécourt | 14 November 1820 | La Scala, Milan | Revised 1826 for Paris.
L'Almanzore |  | Italian |  | Gaetano Rossi | Unperformed |  | Probably composed 1820–21; intended for the Teatro Argentina in Rome but never performed there. Believed to have been unfinished; it is also possible that its music was used in L'esule di Granata
L'esule di Granata | melodramma | Italian | 2 acts | Felice Romani | 12 March 1822 | La Scala, Milan |
Il crociato in Egitto | melodramma | Italian | 2 acts | Gaetano Rossi | 7 March 1824 | La Fenice, Venice | Frequently revised by Meyerbeer
Ines de Castro | melodramma tragico[8] | Italian |  | Salvatore Cammarano[9] |  drafts from 1825 |  | Commissioned by Teatro San Carlo, Naples, for 1826, but never completed.[10][8]
Robert le diable | grand opera | French | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe and Casimir Delavigne | 21 November 1831 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
Les Huguenots | grand opera | French | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe and Émile Deschamps | 29 February 1836 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier | Sometimes staged during the 19th century under other titles such as The Guelfs and the Ghibellines or The Anglicans and the Puritans (see the article on the opera)
Ein Feldlager in Schlesien | Singspiel | German | 3 acts | Ludwig Rellstab after Eugène Scribe | 7 December 1844 | Hofoper, Berlin | Revised as Vielka, Vienna, 18 February 1847
Le prophète | grand opera | French | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe | 16 April 1849 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier |
L'étoile du nord | opéra comique | French | 3 acts | Eugène Scribe | 16 February 1854 | Opéra-Comique, Paris | Partly based on the earlier Feldlager in Schlesien; revised in Italian, London, Covent Garden, 19 July 1855
Le pardon de Ploërmel
(more commonly performed as Dinorah) | opéra comique | French | 3 acts | Jules Barbier and Michel Carré | 4 April 1859 | Opéra-Comique, Paris | Revised in Italian as Dinorah, Covent Garden, London, 26 July 1859
L'Africaine | grand opera | French | 5 acts | Eugène Scribe | 28 April 1865 | Paris Opéra, Salle Le Peletier | Performed posthumously in an edition by François-Joseph Fétis.

## Notes and sources

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Giacomo Meyerbeer surrounded by characters from his most famous operas. From left to right: Nélusko and Sélika (L'Africaine); Alice, Robert and Bertram (Robert le diable); Fidès, Jean de Leyden and the three anabaptistes (Le prophète); Valentine, Raoul and Marcel (Les Huguenots)

Notes

1. ^ Becker (1980), 246
2. ^ Letellier, pp. 24-25.
3. ^ Letellier, 50.
4. ^ Letellier, 57.
5. ^ Huebner, 369.
6. ^ Anon. n.d.
7. ^ Letellier, 61.
8. ^ a b Meyerbeer (1960–2006), II 577
9. ^ Meyerbeer (1960–2006), II 694
10. ^ Becker (1989), 39

Sources

* Anon. (n.d.). "Music and history by the year: 1819". MusicAndHistory.com. Archived from the original on 28 August 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
* Becker, Heinz (1980). "Meyerbeer [Meyer Beer], Giacomo [Jakob Liebmann]". In Sadie, Stanley, The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, vol. 12, 246–256. London: Macmillan
* Becker, Heinz and Gudrun Becker, tr. Mark Violette (1989). Giacomo Meyerbeer, a Life in Letters. London: Christopher Helm. ISBN 0-7470-0230-4.
* Huebner, Steven (1992). "Meyerbeer, Giacomo". In Sadie, Stanley, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, 4: 366–371. London: Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-56159-228-9.
* Letellier, Robert Ignatius (2006). The Operas of Giacomo Meyerbeer. Cranbury: Associated University Presses. ISBN 978-0-8386-4093-7
* Meyerbeer, Giacomo (1960–2006). Briefwechsel und Tagebücher (8 vols.). Berlin and New York: de Gruyter.

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* Jephtas Gelübde (1812)
* Die beiden Kalifen (1813) (also known as wirth und Gast and Alimelek)
* Semiramide riconosciuta (1819)
* Emma di Resburgo (1819)
* Margherita d'Anjou (1820)
* L'esule di Granata (1822)
* Il crociato in Egitto (1824)
* Robert le diable (1831) (Ballet of the Nuns)
* Les Huguenots (1836)
* Ein Feldlager in Schlesien (1844)
* Le prophète (1849)
* L'étoile du nord (1854)
* Dinorah (1859)
* L'Africaine (1865)

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* Amalie Beer (mother)
* Wilhelm Beer
* Michael Beer (brothers)

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