List of operas by Giuseppe Bonno

This is a list of the operas of the Austrian composer Giuseppe Bonno, also known as Josef or Josephus Johannes Baptizta Bon, (1711–1788).

## List

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Nigella e Nise | pastorale |  | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 1732 | Naples |
L'amore insuperabile | festa di camera | 1 act | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 26 July 1736 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Trajano | festa di camera | 1 act | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 1 October 1736 | Vienna Burgtheater |
La gara del genio con Giunone | serenata | 1 act | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 13 May 1737 | Laxenburg |
Alessandro Severo | festa di camera | 1 act | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 1 October 1737 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
La generosità di Artaserse | festa di camera |  | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 4 November 1737 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
? | pastorale | 2 acts |  | 19 November 1737 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
La pace richiamata | festa di camera |  | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 26 July 1738 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
La pietà di Numa | festa di camera | 1 act | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 1 October 1738 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
La vera nobilità | festa di camera |  | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 26 July 1739 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Il natale di Numa Pompilio | festa di camera | 1 act | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 1 October 1739 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Il nume d'Atene | festa di camera |  |  | 19 November 1739 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
La generosa Spartana | serenata | 1 act | Giovanni Claudio Pasquini | 13 May 1740 | Laxenburg |
Il natale di Giove | azione teatrale | 1 act | Metastasio | 1 October 1740 | Vienna, Teatro della Favorita |
Catone in Utica (with other composers) |  |  |  | 1742 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Il vero omaggio | componimento drammatico | 1 act | Metastasio | 13 March 1743 | Vienna, Schlosstheater Schönbrunn |
Danae |  |  |  |  | unperformed? | composed 1744, now lost
Ezio |  |  |  |  | unperformed? | composed 1749, now lost
L'Armida placata (with Wagenseil, Luca Antonio Predieri, Hasse, and Abos)[1] | pasticcio |  |  | 8 October 1750 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Il re pastore | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 27 October 1751 | Vienna, Schlosstheater Schönbrunn |
L'eroe cinese | dramma per musica | 3 acts | Metastasio | 13 May 1752 | Vienna, Schlosstheater Schönbrunn |
L'isola disabitata | azione teatrale | 1 act | Metastasio | 23 September 1754 | Vienna, Burgtheater |
Didone abbandonata |  |  | Metastasio |  | unperformed? | composed 1752, now lost
L'Atenaide ovvero Gli affetti più generosi | azione teatrale | 2 acts | Metastasio |  | unperformed? | composed 1762
Il sogno di Scipione |  |  | Metastasio |  | unperformed? | composed 1763

## References

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Notes

1. ^ Buch, David J.: Magic Flutes and Enchanted Forests, p 172

Sources

* Angermüller, Rudolph (1992), 'Bonno, Giuseppe' in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, ed. Stanley Sadie (London) ISBN 0-333-73432-7