From the Opera House to the Drawing Room --- VERDI e la ballata da salotto.

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Verdi e la ballata da salotto

The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi.

It was the early Verdi, familiar in the drawing-room of the Maffei, who realised that the 'drawing-room ballad' could provide an intense enjoyment when 'staged' -- hence his 'operas' -- and his enrichment of the 'drawing-room ballad' genre into a 'musical theatrical' venture.


MELODRAMME

1 -- Oberto, conte di San BonifacioAntonio Piazza, Temistocle Solera2 acts, ItalianTeatro alla Scala, Milan, November 17, 1839
2Un giorno di regno, later Il finto StanislaoFelice Romani2 acts, ItalianTeatro alla Scala, Milan, September 5, 1840
3NabuccoTemistocle Solera4 acts, ItalianTeatro alla Scala, Milan, March 9, 1842
4I Lombardi alla prima crociataTemistocle Solera4 acts, ItalianTeatro alla Scala, Milan, February 11, 1843
5ErnaniFrancesco Maria Piave4 acts, ItalianTeatro La Fenice, Venice, March 9, 1844
6I due FoscariFrancesco Maria Piave3 acts, ItalianTeatro Argentina, Rome, November 3, 1844
7Giovanna d'ArcoTemistocle Solera3 acts, ItalianTeatro alla Scala, Milan, February 15, 1845
8AlziraSalvadore Cammarano2 acts, ItalianTeatro San Carlo, Naples, August 12, 1845
9AttilaTemistocle Solera, Francesco Maria Piave3 acts, ItalianTeatro La Fenice, Venice, March 17, 1846
10MacbethFrancesco Maria Piave4 acts, ItalianTeatro della Pergola, Florence, March 14, 1847
11I masnadieriAndrea Maffei4 acts, ItalianHer Majesty's Theatre, London, July 22, 1847
12JérusalemAlphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz4 acts, FrenchParis Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) November 26, 1847French version of I Lombardi alla prima crociata with locations and characters changed to French ones
13Il corsaroFrancesco Maria Piave3 acts, ItalianTeatro Grande, Trieste, 25 October 1848
14La battaglia di LegnanoSalvadore Cammarano4 acts, ItalianTeatro Argentina, Rome, January 27, 1849
15Luisa MillerSalvatore Cammarano3 acts, ItalianTeatro San Carlo, Naples, December 8, 1849
16StiffelioFrancesco Maria Piave3 acts, ItalianTeatro Grande, Trieste, November 16, 1850
17RigolettoFrancesco Maria Piave3 acts, ItalianTeatro La Fenice, Venice, March 11, 1851
18Il trovatoreSalvatore Cammarano, Leone Emanuele Bardare4 acts, ItalianTeatro Apollo, Rome, January 19, 1853
19La traviataFrancesco Maria Piave3 acts, ItalianTeatro la Fenice, Venice, March 6, 1853
20Les vêpres siciliennesCharles Duveyrier, Eugène Scribe5 acts, FrenchParis Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) June 13, 1855
21Giovanna de GuzmanEugenio Caimi5 acts, ItalianTeatro Regio, Parma, December 26, 1855Italian 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
22Le trouvèreSalvatore Cammarano, Leone Emanuele Bardare4 acts, FrenchParis Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) 1857Revised version for Paris of Il trovatore with a ballet added
23Simon BoccanegraFrancesco Maria Piave3 acts, ItalianTeatro La Fenice, Venice, March 12, 1857
24AroldoFrancesco Maria Piave4 acts, ItalianTeatro Nuovo, Rimini, August 16, 1857Revision of Stiffelio with location moved to Anglo-Saxon England and characters' names changed. Act 3 is expanded and different from Stiffelio
25Un ballo in mascheraAntonio Somma3 acts, ItalianTeatro Apollo, Rome, February 17, 1859Final 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
26La forza del destinoFrancesco Maria Piave4 acts, ItalianBolshoi Kamenny Theatre, Saint Petersburg, November 10, 1862
27MacbethFrancesco Maria Piave4 acts, ItalianThéâtre Lyrique, Paris, April 21, 1865Revised version, with additions including Lady Macbeth's aria La luce langue and removal of Macbeth's final aria followed by his death off stage
28Don CarlosCamille du Locle, Joseph Méry5 acts, FrenchParis Opéra (Salle Le Peletier) March 11, 1867
29La forza del destinoFrancesco Maria Piave4 acts, ItalianTeatro alla Scala, Milan, February 27, 1869Revised version, with text addition by Antonio Ghislanzoni
30AidaAntonio Ghislanzoni4 acts, ItalianKhedivial Opera House, Cairo, December 24, 1871
31Don CarloCamille du Locle, Joseph Méry5 acts, ItalianTeatro San Carlo, Naples, 1872First revision of Don Carlos, translated into Italian by Achille de Lauzières, with additions by Antonio Ghislanzoni
32Simon BoccanegraFrancesco Maria Piave3 acts, ItalianTeatro alla Scala, Milan, March 24, 1881Revised and expanded version, with text changes by Arrigo Boito and the notable addition of the Act 1 Council Chamber finale
33La force du destinFrancesco Maria Piave4 acts, FrenchAntwerp, March 14, 1881Revised version of La forza del destino translated into French by Charles Nuitter and Camille du Locle[2]
34Don CarloCamille du Locle, Joseph Méry4 acts, FrenchTeatro alla Scala, Milan, January 10, 1884Second revision of Don Carlos with Camille du Locle and Charles Nuitter. Omitted Act 1 and the ballet.
35Don CarloCamille du Locle, Joseph Méry5 acts, ItalianTeatro Municipale, Modena, December 29, 1886Third revision of Don Carlos with Angelo Zanardini. Restored Act 1, Fontainebleau scene
36OtelloArrigo Boito4 acts, ItalianTeatro alla Scala, Milan, February 5, 1887
37FalstaffArrigo Boito3 acts, ItalianTeatro alla Scala, Milan, February 9, 1893

THE (non-OPERATIC) Songs of Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco VERDI

"Sei Romanze" (1838)

ROMANZA I:

"Non t'accostar all'urna"

Lirica da Jacopo Vittorelli

ROMANZA II:

"More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta"

Lirica da Tommaso Bianchi.

ROMANZA III

"In solitaria stanza"

Lirica da Jacopo Vittorelli.

ROMANZA IV:

"Nell'orror di note oscura"

Lirica da Carlo Angiolini.

ROMANZA V:

"Perduta ho la pace"

Lirica da Luigi Balestra tratto dal FAUSTO di Goethe.

ROMANZA VI:

"Deh, pietoso, o addolorata"

Lirica da Luigi Balestra, tratto dal FAUSTO di Goethe.


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BALLATA DA SALOTTO:

"L'esule"

(1839)

Lirica da Temistocle Solera

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BALLATA DA SALOTTO:

"La seduzione"

(1839)

Lirica da Luigi Balestra

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BALLATA DA SALOTTO:

"Guarda che bianca luna"

(notturno) (1839)

Lirica da Jacopo Vittorelli)-- For soprano, tenor, bass and flute obbligato

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"Album di Sei Romanze" (1845)

ROMANZA I:

Il tramonto

Lirica da Andrea Maffei

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ROMANZA II

La zingara

Lirica da S. Manfredo Maggioni

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ROMANZA III

Ad una stella

Lirica da Maffei

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ROMANZA IV

Lo Spazzacamino

Lirica da Felice Romani

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ROMANZA V

Il Mistero

Lirica da Felice Romani

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ROMANZA VI

Brindisi

Lirica da Maffei

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BALLATA DA SALOTTO

Il poveretto

 (1847)

Lirica da Maggioni


L'Abandonée (1849) (Escudier?)
Stornello (1869)

Lirica da anon.

Pietà Signor (1894)

Lirica da Verdi e Boito


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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):

I

Ave Maria: for mixed chorus

II

Stabat Mater: for mixed chorus

III


Laudi alla Vergine Maria: for female chorus

IV

Te Deum: for double chorus and orchestra


Other vocal works

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"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)


Non-vocal

Piano

Verdi 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 "Il gattopardo") (Visconti found inspiration in the famous Verdi portrait for the characterisation of Fabrizio, principe di Salina.

Chamber

String Quartet in E minor (1873)

Orchestral

Adagio for Orchestra

Sinfonia in B flat major

Sinfonia in C major

Capriccio for Bassoon and Orchestra

Sinfonia del M. Verdi in D major


Notes
^ Budden, Vol. 2, p.369
^ Opera Stanford

References
Budden, Julian, The Operas of Verdi, London: Cassell, Ltd., 1984, pp. 360–423 ISBN 0-304-31059-X

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