VERDIANA: The Operas of Verdi

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 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	Il finto Stanislao di Polonia, ossia, un giorno di regno,	Felice Romani	2 acts, Italian	Teatro alla Scala, Milan, September 5, 1840
3	Nabuccodonosor: un oratorio.	Temistocle Solera	4 acts, Italian	Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 9, 1842
4	I Lombardi alla prima crociata, tratto dell'epopea di Grossi.	Temistocle Solera	4 acts, Italian	Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 11, 1843
5	Ernani, ossia l'onor castigliano	Francesco Maria Piave	4 acts, Italian	Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 9, 1844
6	I due Foscari, tratto da Byron.	Francesco Maria Piave	3 acts, Italian	Teatro Argentina, Rome, November 3, 1844
7	Giovanna d'Arco, ossia la pulzella d'Orleans	Temistocle Solera	3 acts, Italian	Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 15, 1845
8	Alzira, ossia gli americani	Salvadore Cammarano	2 acts, Italian	Teatro San Carlo, Naples, August 12, 1845
9	Attila, ossia il re degli uni	Temistocle Solera, Francesco Maria Piave	3 acts, Italian	Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 17, 1846
10	Macbetto (tratto da Guglielmo Shakespeare)	Francesco Maria Piave	4 acts, Italian	Teatro della Pergola, Florence, March 14, 1847
11	I masnadieri	Andrea Maffei	4 acts, Italian	Italian Opera House, Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, London, July 22, 1847
12	Gerusalemme	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 (tratto da Byron)	Francesco Maria Piave	3 acts, Italian	Teatro Grande, Trieste, 25 October 1848
14	Barbarossa ossia La battaglia di Legnano	Salvadore Cammarano	4 acts, Italian	Teatro Argentina, Rome, January 27, 1849
15	Intrigo ed amore, ossia Luisa Miller	Salvatore Cammarano	3 acts, Italian	Teatro San Carlo, Naples, December 8, 1849
16	Stiffelio, ossia AROLDO	Francesco Maria Piave	3 acts, Italian	Teatro Grande, Trieste, November 16, 1850
17	Il duca di Mantova, ossia Rigoletto! La maledizione	Francesco Maria Piave	3 acts, Italian	Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 11, 1851
18	Il trovatore, ossia la tromba guerriera di Manrico	Salvatore Cammarano, Leone Emanuele Bardare	4 acts, Italian	Teatro Apollo, Rome, January 19, 1853
19	La signora alle camelie, ossia La traviata	Francesco Maria Piave	3 acts, Italian	Teatro la Fenice, Venice, March 6, 1853
20	I vespri siciliani	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, ossia l'ultimo dei re sassoni, tratto da Bulwer Lytton.	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	Il conte di Warwich, ossia il 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	Don Alvaro, ossia La potenza del fato.	Francesco Maria Piave	4 acts, Italian	Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, Saint Petersburg, November 10, 1862
27	Macbetto (tratto da Guglielmo Shakespeare).	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 Carlo	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	Il moro di Venezia, ossia Otello -- tratto da Guglielmo Shakespeare	Arrigo Boito	4 acts, Italian	Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 5, 1887
37	Le comare di Windsor, ossia, Falstaff -- tratto da Guglielmo Shakespeare	Arrigo Boito	3 acts, Italian	Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 9, 1893