List of operas by Friedrich von Flotow

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
Pierre et Catherine 2 acts 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 Zu 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.