The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi.
Verdi only wrote two piano pieces, both very short:
[edit] List of operas and revisions
# | Title | Libretto | # Acts, Language | Premiere details | Remarks |
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1 | Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio | Antonio Piazza, Temistocle Solera | 2 acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, November 17, 1839 | |
2 | Un giorno di regno, later Il finto Stanislao | Felice Romani | 2 acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, September 5, 1840 | |
3 | Nabucco | Temistocle Solera | 4 acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 9, 1842 | |
4 | I Lombardi alla prima crociata | Temistocle Solera | 4 acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 11, 1843 | |
5 | Ernani | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 acts, Italian | Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 9, 1844 | |
6 | I due Foscari | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro Argentina, Rome, November 3, 1844 | |
7 | Giovanna d'Arco | Temistocle Solera | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 15, 1845 | |
8 | Alzira | Salvadore Cammarano | 2 acts, Italian | Teatro San Carlo, Naples, August 12, 1845 | |
9 | Attila | Temistocle Solera, Francesco Maria Piave | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 17, 1846 | |
10 | Macbeth | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 acts, Italian | Teatro della Pergola, Florence, March 14, 1847 | |
11 | I masnadieri | Andrea Maffei | 4 acts, Italian | Her Majesty's Theatre, London, July 22, 1847 | |
12 | Jérusalem | Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz | 4 acts, French | Paris Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) November 26, 1847 | French version of I Lombardi alla prima crociata with locations and characters changed to French ones |
13 | Il corsaro | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro Grande, Trieste, 25 October 1848 | |
14 | La battaglia di Legnano | Salvadore Cammarano | 4 acts, Italian | Teatro Argentina, Rome, January 27, 1849 | |
15 | Luisa Miller | Salvatore Cammarano | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro San Carlo, Naples, December 8, 1849 | |
16 | Stiffelio | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro Grande, Trieste, November 16, 1850 | |
17 | Rigoletto | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 11, 1851 | |
18 | Il trovatore | Salvatore Cammarano, Leone Emanuele Bardare | 4 acts, Italian | Teatro Apollo, Rome, January 19, 1853 | |
19 | La traviata | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro la Fenice, Venice, March 6, 1853 | |
20 | Les vêpres siciliennes | Charles Duveyrier, Eugène Scribe | 5 acts, French | Paris Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) June 13, 1855 | |
21 | Giovanna de Guzman | Eugenio Caimi | 5 acts, Italian | Teatro Regio, Parma, December 26, 1855 | Italian version of Les vêpres siciliennes. The opera was given under various titles - e.g.: Batilda di Turenne, seen by Verdi in Naples in January 1858[1] - until after the unification of Italy in 1860. Eventually it became known by its Italian title, I vespri Siciliani |
22 | Le trouvère | Salvatore Cammarano, Leone Emanuele Bardare | 4 acts, French | Paris Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) 1857 | Revised version for Paris of Il trovatore with a ballet added |
23 | Simon Boccanegra | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 12, 1857 | |
24 | Aroldo | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 acts, Italian | Teatro Nuovo, Rimini, August 16, 1857 | Revision of Stiffelio with location moved to Anglo-Saxon England and characters' names changed. Act 3 is expanded and different from Stiffelio |
25 | Un ballo in maschera | Antonio Somma | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro Apollo, Rome, February 17, 1859 | Final title of an opera which began as Gustavo III for Naples in 1857, became Un vendetta in domino in 1858, and finally Un ballo in maschera in an American setting with Colonial-era characters in 1859 |
26 | La forza del destino | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 acts, Italian | Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, Saint Petersburg, November 10, 1862 | |
27 | Macbeth | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 acts, Italian | Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, April 21, 1865 | Revised version, with additions including Lady Macbeth's aria La luce langue and removal of Macbeth's final aria followed by his death off stage |
28 | Don Carlos | Camille du Locle, Joseph Méry | 5 acts, French | Paris Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) March 11, 1867 | |
29 | La forza del destino | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 27, 1869 | Revised version, with text addition by Antonio Ghislanzoni |
30 | Aida | Antonio Ghislanzoni | 4 acts, Italian | Khedivial Opera House, Cairo, December 24, 1871 | |
31 | Don Carlo | Camille du Locle, Joseph Méry | 5 acts, Italian | Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1872 | First revision of Don Carlos, translated into Italian by Achille de Lauzières, with additions by Antonio Ghislanzoni |
32 | Simon Boccanegra | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 24, 1881 | Revised and expanded version, with text changes by Arrigo Boito and the notable addition of the Act 1 Council Chamber finale |
33 | La force du destin | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 acts, French | Antwerp, March 14, 1881 | Revised version of La forza del destino translated into French by Charles Nuitter and Camille du Locle[2] |
34 | Don Carlo | Camille du Locle, Joseph Méry | 4 acts, French | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, January 10, 1884 | Second revision of Don Carlos with Camille du Locle and Charles Nuitter. Omitted Act 1 and the ballet. |
35 | Don Carlo | Camille du Locle, Joseph Méry | 5 acts, Italian | Teatro Municipale, Modena, December 29, 1886 | Third revision of Don Carlos with Angelo Zanardini. Restored Act 1, Fontainebleau scene |
36 | Otello | Arrigo Boito | 4 acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 5, 1887 | |
37 | Falstaff | Arrigo Boito | 3 acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 9, 1893 |
[edit] Songs
- Sei Romanze (1838)
- Non t'accostar all'urna (Jacopo Vittorelli)
- More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta (Tommaso Bianchi)
- In solitaria stanza (Jacopo Vittorelli)
- Nell'orror di note oscura (Carlo Angiolini)
- Perduta ho la pace (trans. by Luigi Balestra from Goethe's Faust)
- Deh, pietoso, o addolorata (trans. by Luigi Balestra from Goethe's Faust)
- L'esule (1839) (Temistocle Solera)
- La seduzione (1839) (Luigi Balestra)
- Guarda che bianca luna: notturno (1839) (Jacopo Vittorelli)--For soprano, tenor, bass and flute obbligato
- Album di Sei Romanze (1845)
- Il tramonto (Andrea Maffei)
- La zingara (S. Manfredo Maggioni)
- Ad una stella (Maffei)
- Lo Spazzacamino (Felice Romani)
- Il Mistero (Felice Romani)
- Brindisi (Maffei)
- Il poveretto (1847) (Maggioni)
- L'Abandonée (1849) (Escudier?)
- Stornello (1869) (anon.)
- Pietà Signor (1894) (Verdi and Boito)
[edit] Sacred Works
- Messa da Requiem (22 May 1874, San Marco, Milan): mass in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra
- Messa per Rossini (1869; premiered posthumously 11 September 1988, Stuttgart): mass in memory of Gioachino Rossini, of Verdi (Libera me) together with twelve other composers
- Pater Noster (1873): for 5-part chorus
- Ave Maria (1880): for soprano and strings
- Quattro Pezzi Sacri (7 April 1898, Grande Opéra, Paris):
- Ave Maria: for mixed chorus
- Stabat Mater: for mixed chorus
- Laudi alla Vergine Maria: for female chorus
- Te Deum: for double chorus and orchestra
[edit] Other vocal works (non-Sacred)
- Suona la tromba (1848) (Giuseppe Mameli), a patriotic hymn
- Inno delle Nazioni (1862, London) (Boito), cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestra. (c.f. Hymn (or Anthem) of the Nations)
[edit] Non-vocal
PianoVerdi only wrote two piano pieces, both very short:
- Romanza Senza Parole (written 1844, published 1865)
- Waltz (written by Verdi for piano, but not published until 1963 when Nino Rota adapted it for orchestra in his score for Luchino Visconti's film The Leopard)
- String Quartet in E minor (1873)
- Adagio for Orchestra
- Sinfonia in B flat major
- Sinfonia in C major
- Capriccio for Bassoon and Orchestra
- Sinfonia del M. Verdi in D major
[edit] Notes
- ^ Budden, Vol. 2, p.369
- ^ Opera Stanford
[edit] References
- Budden, Julian, The Operas of Verdi, London: Cassell, Ltd., 1984, pp. 360–423 ISBN 0-304-31059-X
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