Friday, February 1, 2013

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

#TitleLibretto# Acts, LanguagePremiere detailsRemarks
1Oberto, 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

[edit] Songs

  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)
  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)

[edit] Sacred Works

  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)

[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
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

 

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