This is a complete list of the operas of the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer (1771–1839).
Title | Genre | Subdivisions | Libretto | Première date | Place, theatre | Orphée et Euridice | play with songs | 1 act | Duplessis}}Charles Pierre Duplessis after Ranieri de' Calzabigi and Alessandro Striggio figlio | 1791-00-00}}1791 | Parma, Court |
Circe (also performed as Calypso) | opera | 3 acts | Perelli}}Domenico Perelli | 1792-03-00}}carnival 1792 | Venice, Teatro San Samuele |
astuzie}}Le astuzie amorose, o Il tempo fa giustizia a tutti (also performed as La locanda dei vagabondi) | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Brambilla}}Antonio Brambilla | 1792-09-00}}autumn 1792 | Parma, Teatro Ducale |
portenti}}I portenti del magnetismo | opera buffa | 2 acts | | 1793-03-00}}carnival 1793 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
Icilio e Virginia | | 2 acts | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1793-06-00}}June 1793 | Padua, Nuovo |
Laodicea (also performed as Tegene e Laodicea) | | 3 acts | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1793-06-00}}June 1793 | Padua, Nuovo |
pretendenti}}I pretendenti burlati | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Grossardi}}Gian Carlo Grossardi | 1793-07-00}}summer 1793 | Medesano, Teatrino |
oro}}L'oro fa tutto (German: Geld ist die Lösung) | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Anelli}}Angelo Anelli | 1793-08-00}}August 1793 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
nuovo}}Il nuovo Figaro (also performed as Il matrimonio di Figaro) | dramma giocoso | 4 acts | Da Ponte}}Lorenzo Da Ponte after Pierre Beaumarchais (originally written for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) | 1794-01-00}}January 1794 | Parma, Teatro Ducale |
matrimonio}}Il matrimonio improvviso (also performed as I due sordi) | farsa | 1 act | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1794-02-22}}22 February 1794 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
molinari}}I molinari | farsa | 1 act | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1794-03-90}}Carnival 1794 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
fornaro}}Il fornaro | farsa | 1 act | | 1794-03-91}}carnival 1794 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
Idomeneo}}L'Idomeneo | dramma serio | 2 acts | Sertor}}Gaetano Sertor after Antoine Danchet | 1794-03-92}}spring 1794 | Florence, Palla a Corda |
Ero e Leandro | dramma | 2 acts | | 1794-08-13}}13 August 1794 | Naples, Teatro di San Carlo |
inganno}}L'inganno in trionfo | intermezzo | 1 act | | 1794-90-90}}1794 | Florence, Palla a Corda |
Una in bene e una in male (also performed as Le astuzie di Patacca) | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1794-90-91}}1794 | Rome, Valle |
Rossana}}La Rossana | melodramma serio | 3 acts | Aureli}}Aurelio Aureli | 1795-03-00}}carnival 1795 | Milan, Teatro alla Scala |
Cinna}}Il Cinna | melodramma serio | 2 acts | Anelli}}Angelo Anelli | 1795-06-13}}13 June 1795 | Padua, Nuovo |
Anna | opera buffa | 2 acts | | 1795-06-90}}June 1795 | Padua, Nuovo |
intrigo}}L'intrigo amoroso (also performed as Saed, ossia Gl'intrighi del serraglio and Il male vien dal buco) | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Bertati}}Giovanni Bertati | 1795-12-04}}4 December 1795 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
orfana}}L'orfana riconosciuta | dramma giocoso | | | 1796-04-02}}2 April 1796 | Florence, Pergola |
amante}}L'amante servitore | commedia in musica | 2 acts | Sografi}}Antonio Simeone Sografi | 1796-12-26}}{{Nowrap|26 December 1796}} | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
principe}}Il principe di Taranto (also performed as La contadina fortunata) | dramma giocoso | 2 acts | Livigni}}Filippo Livigni | 1797-02-11}}11 February 1797 | Parma, Teatro Ducale |
fanatico}}Il fanatico in Berlina | | | | 1797-99-00}}1797 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
Griselda, ossia La virtù al cimento | dramma semiserio | 2 acts | Anelli}}Angelo Anelli after Giovanni Boccaccio | 1798-01-00}}January 1798 | Parma, Teatro Ducale |
Camilla, ossia Il sotteraneo | dramma semiserio | 3 acts | Carpani}}Giuseppe Carpani, after Benoît-Joseph Marsollier des Vivetières' libretto Camille for Nicolas Dalayrac | 1799-02-28}}28 February 1799 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
maestro}}Il maestro di ballo | farsa | 1 act | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1799-03-00}}carnival 1799 | Venice, Teatro San Moisè |
morto}}Il morto vivo | opera buffa | 2 acts | Defranceschi}}Carlo Prospero Defranceschi | 1799-07-12}}12 July 1799 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
testa}}La testa riscaldata | farsa | 1 act | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1800-01-20}}20 January 1800 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto |
sonnambula}}La sonnambula | farsa | 1 act | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1800-02-15}}15 February 1800 | Venice, Teatro San Benedetto |
Ginevra degli Almieri | opera tragicomica | 4 acts | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1800-09-02}}2 September 1800 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
Poche ma buone, ossia Le donne cambiate (German: Der lustige Schuster) | opera buffa | 2 acts | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1800-12-18}}18 December 1800 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
Achille | melodramma eroico | 2 acts | De Gamerra}}Giovanni De Gamerra, after Homer | 1801-06-06}}6 June 1801 | Vienna, Kärntnertortheater |
fuorusciti}}I fuorusciti di Firenze | opera semiseria | 2 acts | Anelli}}Angelo Anelli | 1802-11-27}}27 November 1802 | Dresden, Hoftheater |
Sargino, ossia L'allievo dell'amore | dramma eroicomico | 2 acts | Foppa}}Giuseppe Maria Foppa | 1803-05-26}}26 May 1803 | Dresden, Hoftheater |
Lodoiska | dramma eroico | 3 acts | Gonella}}Francesco Gonella after Jean-Baptiste Louvet de Couvray | 1804-07-00}}summer 1804 | Bologna, Teatro Comunale |
Leonora, ossia L'amore conjugale | dramma semiserio | 2 acts | Schmidt}}Giovanni Schmidt, after Jean-Nicolas Bouilly's libretto Léonore for Pierre Gaveaux | 1804-10-03}}3 October 1804 | Dresden, Hoftheater |
Sofonisba | dramma serio | 2 acts | Schmidt}}Giovanni Schmidt | 1805-05-19}}19 May 1805 | Bologna, Corso |
maniscalco}}Il maniscalco | dramma giocoso | | | 1805-07-00}}summer 1805 | Florence, Palla a Corda |
Numa Pompilio | dramma serio | 3 acts | Bagnoli}}Pietro Bagnoli, after Matteo Noris | 1808-03-00}}carnival 1808 | Paris, Tuileries |
Cleopatra | | | | 1808-90-90}}1808 | Paris |
Diana e Endimione, ossia Il ritardo | intermezzo | | Vestris}}Stefano Vestris | 1809-09-00}}autumn 1809 | Paris, Tuileries |
Agnese | dramma semiserio | 2 acts | Buonavoglia}}Luigi Buonavoglia after Filippo Casari | 1809-10-00}}October 1809 | Parma, Villa Douglas-Scotti, Ponte d'Attaro |
Didone}}La Didone abbandonata | melodramma serio | 2 acts | Metastasio | 1810-90-90}}1810 | Paris, Tuileries |
pazzo}}Un pazzo ne fa cento | opera buffa | 2 acts | | 1812-09-00}}autumn 1812 | Florence, Pergola |
Baccanti}}I Baccanti | opera seria | 2 acts | Rossi}}Gaetano Rossi | 1813-01-07}}7 January 1813 | Paris, Tuileries |
Poche ma buone, ossia La moglie ravveduta | farsa comica | 1 act | De Gamerra}}Giovanni De Gamerra | 1813-07-00}}summer 1813 | Rome, Valle |
oriflamme}}L'oriflamme (written in collaboration with Henri-Montan Berton, Rodolphe Kreutzer and Étienne Méhul) | opéra | 1 act | Etienne}}Charles-Guillaume Etienne and Louis-Pierre-Marie-François Baour-Lormian | 1814-02-01}}1 February 1814 | Paris, Opéra |
Oro non compra amore | opera buffa | 2 acts | | 1814-90-90}}1814 | Pavia, Quattro Signori |
eroismo}}L'eroismo in amore | melodramma serio | 2 acts | Romanelli}}Luigi Romanelli | 1815-12-26}}26 December 1815 | Milan, La Scala |
primavera}}La primavera felice | opera giocosa | 1 act | Balocchi}}Luigi Balocchi | 1816-07-05}}5 July 1816 | Paris, Italien |
maitre}}Le maître de chapelle, ou Le souper imprévu | opéra comique | 2 acts | Gay}}Sophie Gay, after Alexandre Duval | 1821-03-29}}29 March 1821 | Paris, Théâtre Feydeau |
Blanche de Provence, ou La cour des fées (written in collaboration with Henri-Montan Berton, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Luigi Cherubini and Rodolphe Kreutzer) | opéra | 3 acts | Théaulon}}Emmanuel Théaulon and Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé | 1821-05-01}}1 May 1821 | Paris, Tuileries |
marquise}}La marquise de Brinvilliers (written in collaboration with Daniel Auber, Désiré-Alexandre Batton, Henri-Montan Berton, Giuseppe Felice Blangini, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Michele Carafa, Luigi Cherubini and Ferdinand Hérold) | opéra comique | 3 acts | Scribe}}Eugène Scribe and Castile-Blaze | 1831-10-31}}31 October 1831 | Paris, Opéra-Comique (Salle Ventadour) |
caprice}}Un caprice de femme | opéra comique | 1 act | Lesguillon}}Jean-Pierre Lesguillon | 1834-07-23}}23 July 1834 | Paris, Opéra-comique (Salle de la Bourse) |