List of operas by Josef Mysliveček

This is a complete list of the operas of the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček (1737–1781). All of Mysliveček's operas are examples of opera seria (genre: dramma per musica) and in three acts.

## List

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Title | Libretto | Date of première | Place, theater

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Semiramide | Metastasio | Summer fair, 1766 | Bergamo, Teatro di Citadella
Il Bellerofonte | Giuseppe Bonecchi | 20 January 1767 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Farnace | Antonio Maria Lucchini | 4 November 1767 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Il trionfo di Clelia | Metastasio | 26 December 1767 | Turin, Teatro Regio
Demofoonte (1st version) | Metastasio | 17 January 1769 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
L'Ipermestra | Metastasio | 27 March 1769 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola
La Nitteti | Metastasio | 29 April 1770 | Bologna, Teatro Nuovo Pubblico
Motezuma | Vittorio Amedeo Cigna-Santi [it] | 23 January 1771 | Florence, Teatro della Pergola
Il gran Tamerlano | Agostino Piovene | 26 December 1771 | Milan, Teatro Regio Ducale
Demetrio (1st version) | Metastasio | 24 May 1773 | Pavia, Teatro Nuovo
Romolo ed Ersilia | Metastasio | 13 August 1773 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Antigona | Gaetano Roccaforte | 26 December 1773 | Turin, Teatro Regio
La clemenza di Tito | Metastasio | carnival, 1774, by 5 February 1774 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
Atide | Tomaso Stanzani, after Philippe Quinault | June 1774, perhaps 13 June | Padua, Teatro Nuovo
Artaserse | Metastasio | 13 August 1774 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Demofoonte (2nd version) | Metastasio | 20 January 1775 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Ezio (1st version) | Metastasio | 30 May 1775 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Adriano in Siria | Metastasio | 8 September 1776 | Florence, Teatro del Cocomero
Ezio (2nd version) | Metastasio | 1777 | Munich, Hoftheater
La Calliroe | Matteo Verazi | 30 May 1778 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
L'Olimpiade | Metastasio | 4 November 1778 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
La Circe | Domenico Perelli | 12 May 1779 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto
Demetrio (2nd version) | Metastasio | 13 August 1779 | Naples, Teatro San Carlo
Armida | Giovanni Ambrogio Migliavacca, after Philippe Quinault and Torquato Tasso | 26 December 1779 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala
Medonte | Giovanni de Gamerra | 26 January 1780 | Rome, Teatro Argentina
Antigono | Metastasio | 5 April 1780 | Rome, Teatro delle Dame

Note: There is no reason to believe that any of the following productions cited in earlier musicological literature ever took place: Medea (Parma, 1764); Erifile (Munich, 1773); Achille in Sciro (Naples, 1775); and Merope (Naples, 1775). Furthermore, there is no reason to believe that Mysliveček contributed any music to a production of Armida that took place in Lucca in 1778.[1] The cantata Il Parnaso confuso is sometimes referred to in error as Mysliveček's first opera. Reports that it was performed in Parma in 1765 are conjectural; there is no documentation to verify its true date of composition or the venue of its first performance.

## Recordings

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* Opera Medonte. L'Arte del Mondo. dir. Werner Ehrhardt, dhm, 2011
* Opera Il Bellerofonte. Prague Chamber Orchestra dir. Zoltán Peskó, Supraphon, 2003

## References

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1. ^ Documentation of how all of these spurious productions entered the musicological literature is found in Catalog II of Freeman, Josef Mysliveček.

## Further reading

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* Daniel E. Freeman, Josef Mysliveček, "Il Boemo": The Man and His Music, Detroit Monographs in Musicology, (Sterling Heights, Michigan: Harmonie Park Press, 2009), pp. 321–332. ISBN 978-0-89990-148-0