This is a list of the operas of the Italian composer Franco Alfano (1876–1954).
List
TitleGenreSubdivisionsLibrettoPremière datePlace, theatreNotesMiranda 2 acts composer unperformed Composed 1896. After Miranda by Fogazzaro.La fonte di Enschir opera seria 2 acts Luigi Illica 8 November 1898 Wrocław, Stadttheater Performed in German.Risurrezione dramma lirico 4 acts Cesare Hanau and Camillo Antona Traversi 30 November 1904 Turin, Teatro Vittorio Emanuele After Resurrection by Tolstoy.Il principe Zilah dramma lirico 1 prologue, 2 acts and 1 epilogue Luigi Illica 3 February 1909 Genoa, Teatro Carlo Felice After Jules Claretie.I cavalieri e la bella 3 acts Giuseppe Adami and Tomaso Monicelli Composed 1910. Unfinished.L'ombra di Don Giovanni dramma lirico 3 acts Ettore Moschino2 April 1914 Milan, Teatro alla Scala La leggenda di Sakuntala 3 acts composer 10 December 1921 Bologna, Teatro Comunale After Abhijñānaśākuntalam by Kālidāsa.Madonna Imperia commedia musicale 1 act Arturo Rossato 15 May 1927 Turin, Teatro di Torino After La Belle Imperia by Balzac.L'ultimo Lord opera semiseria 3 acts Ugo Falena and Arturo Rossato 19 April 1930 Naples, Teatro San Carlo After Little Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson Burnett.Cyrano de Bergerac commedia eroica 4 acts Henri Caïn 22 January 1936 Rome, Teatro dell'Opera After Rostand. Italian translation by Cesare Meano and Filippo Brusa.Don Juan de Manara dramma lirico 3 acts Ettore Moschino12 June 1941 Florence, Teatro Comunale New version of L'ombra di Don Giovanni.Il dottor Antonio opera 3 acts Mario Ghisalberti 30 April 1949 Rome, Teatro dell'Opera After Dottor Antonio by Giovanni Ruffini.Vesuvius opera for radio Vittorio Viviani13 November 1950 Transmitted by RAI Sakùntala 3 acts composer 9 January 1952 Roma, Teatro dell'Opera Reconstruction of La leggenda di Sakuntala.
Sources John C.G. Waterhouse, Alfano, Franco, in New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2001 Alberto Pironti, Alfano, Franco in Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume 2 (1960)