OPERA VERDIANA

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

[edit] List of operas and revisions

#	Title	Libretto	# Acts, Language	Premiere details	Remarks
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)

1. Non t'accostar all'urna (Jacopo Vittorelli)
2. More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta (Tommaso Bianchi)
3. In solitaria stanza (Jacopo Vittorelli)
4. Nell'orror di note oscura (Carlo Angiolini)
5. Perduta ho la pace (trans. by Luigi Balestra from Goethe's Faust)
6. 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)

1. Il tramonto (Andrea Maffei)
2. La zingara (S. Manfredo Maggioni)
3. Ad una stella (Maffei)
4. Lo Spazzacamino (Felice Romani)
5. Il Mistero (Felice Romani)
6. 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):

1. Ave Maria: for mixed chorus
2. Stabat Mater: for mixed chorus
3. Laudi alla Vergine Maria: for female chorus
4. 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

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 The Leopard)

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

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Budden, Vol. 2, p.369
2. ^ 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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