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The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi (complete)
Operas: Title (date and place of 1th performance), librettist and specifics
Oberto
Conte di San Bonifacio
(17.11.1839 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 2 acts,
Temistocle Solera.
Un Giorno di Regno
(5.9.1840
Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Melodramma giocoso in 2 acts, Felice Romani, after the
comedy Le Faux Stanislas by Alexandre Vincent Pineu-Duval.
Nabucodonosor
(9.3.1842 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 4 parts, Temistocle Solera, after the
play Nabucodonosor by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue.
I
Lombardi alla Prima Crociata
(11.2.1843 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 4 acts,
Temistocle Solera, after the poem of the same name by Tommaso Grossi.
Ernani
(9.3.1844
Teatro la Fenice, Venice) Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the play Hernani
by Victor Hugo.
I Due Foscari
(3.11.1844
Teatro Argentina, Rome) Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after Lord Byron's play
The Two Foscari.
Giovanna
d'Arco
(15.2.1845 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in a prologue and 3 acts, Temistocle
Solera, after Schiller's drama Die Jungfrau von Orleans.
Alzira
(12.8.1845 Teatro San Carlo, Naples) Opera in a prologue and 2 acts, Salvatore Cammarano,
after Voltaire's tragedy Alzire, ou les Américains.
Attila
(17.3.1846 Teatro la
Fenice, Venice) Opera in a prologue and 3 acts, Temistocle Solera (and Francesco Maria
Piave), after the play Attila, König der Hunnen by Zacharias Werner.
Macbeth
(14.3.1847
Teatro della Pergola, Florence) Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after
Shakespeare's play.
I Masnadieri
(22.7.1847
Her Majesty's Theatre, London) Opera in 4 acts, Andrea Maffei, after Schiller's drama Die
Räuber
Jérusalem (rev. of I Lombardi)
(26.11.1847 Académie Royale de
Musique, Paris) Opera in 4 acts, Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz.
Il Corsaro
(25.10.1848
Teatro Grande, Trieste) Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after Lord Byron's poem
The Corsair.
La Battaglia
di Legnano
(27.1.1849 Teatro Argentina, Rome) Opera in 4 acts, Salvatore Cammarano,
after the play La Battaille de Toulouse by Joseph Méry.
Luisa Miller
(8.12.1849
Teatro San Carlo, Naples) Opera in 3 acts, Salvatore Cammarano, after Schiller's drama
Kabale und Liebe.
Stiffelio
(16.11.1850 Teatro Grande, Trieste) Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the play
Le Pasteur, ou L'Évangile et le Foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois.
Rigoletto
(11.3.1850 Teatro la Fenice, Venice) Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the
drama Le Roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.
Il Trovatore
(19.1.1853
Teatro Apollo, Rome) Opera in 4 acts, Salvatore Cammarano (and Leone Emanuele Bardare),
after the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
La Traviata
(6.3.1853
Teatro la Fenice, Venice) Opera in 4 parts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the play La Dame
aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils.
Les Vêpres
Siciliennes
(13.6.1855 Académie Impériale de Musique, Paris) Grand opera in 5 acts,
Augustin Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier, after their libretto Le Duc d'Albe
Giovanna de Guzman (I vespri siciliani)
(26.12.1855 Teatro Regio,
Parma - Scribe and Eugenio Caimi)
Simon
Boccanegra
(12.3.1857 Teatro la Fenice, Venice) Opera in a prologue and 3 acts,
Francesco Maria Piave (and Giuseppe Montanelli), after the play Simon Bocanegra by Antonio
García Gutiérrez.
Aroldo
(rev. of Stiffelio) (16.8.1857 Teatro Nuovo, Rimini) Opera in 4 parts, Francesco Maria
Piave
Un Ballo in maschera
(17.2.1859
Teatro Apollo, Rome) Opera in 3 acts, Antonio Somma, after Scribe's libretto Gustave
III.
La Forza del destino
(10.11.1862
Bolshoi Theatre, St. Petersburg) Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, (and Andrea
Maffei) after the play Don Alvaro, o La Fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra, Duke of
Rivas, and Schiller's drama Wallensteins Lager.
Macbeth
(19.4.1865 Théâtre Lyrique, Paris)
Don Carlos
(13.6.1855 Académie Impériale de Musique, Paris) Grand opera in 5 acts, Joseph Méry and
Camille du Locle, after Schiller's dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien
Aida
(24.12.1871 Opera House,
Cairo) Opera in 4 acts, Antonio Ghislanzoni, from a scenario by Auguste Mariette.
Don Carlo
(1872, Naples), translation by Achille de Lauzières, with additions by Antonio
Ghislanzoni.
Simon
Boccanegra
(rev.) (24.3.1881 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Libretto additions and changes
by Arrigo Boito.
La Force du destin (rev. of La Forza del
destino)
(14.3.1883, Antwerp) Libretto translated and
adapted by Charles Nuitter and Camille du Locle.
Otello
(5.2.1887
Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Opera in 4 acts, Arrigo Boito, after Shakespeare's Othello.
Falstaff
(9.2.1893 Teatro alla Scala, Milan), opera in 3 acts, Arrigo Boito, after Shakespeare's
Falstaff and Henry IV.
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