List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi
The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901).
Giuseppe Verdi
List of operas and revisions
Revision of earlier opera, including translations with material musical changes. Librettists not directly involved in the preparation of a specific revision, but whose text (or a translation thereof) is included in the work, are shown in italics.
| # | Title | Libretto | Acts | Language | Premiere | Remarks |
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| 1 | Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio |
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2 | Italian | La Scala, Milan
17 Nov 1839 |
Lightly revised three times after the première. |
| 2 | Un giorno di regno | 2 | Italian | La Scala, Milan
5 Sep 1840 |
Later revision known as Il finto Stanislao. | |
| 3 | Nabucodonosor |
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4 | Italian | La Scala, Milan
9 Mar 1842 |
Later known as Nabucco. |
| 4 | I Lombardi alla prima crociata |
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4 | Italian | La Scala, Milan
11 Feb 1843 |
Based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi. |
| 5 | Ernani | 4 | Italian | La Fenice, Venice
9 Mar 1844 |
Partially based on work by Victor Hugo. | |
| 6 | I due Foscari |
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3 | Italian | Teatro Argentina, Rome
3 Nov 1844 |
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| 7 | Giovanna d'Arco |
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3 | Italian | La Scala, Milan
15 Feb 1845 |
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| 8 | Alzira |
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2 | Italian | San Carlo, Naples
12 Aug 1845 |
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| 9 | Attila |
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3 | Italian | La Fenice, Venice
17 Mar 1846 |
Acts 1 and 2 written, and Act 3 sketched, by Solera.
Act 3 completed by Piave. |
| 10 | Macbeth |
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4 | Italian | La Pergola, Florence
14 Mar 1847 |
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| 11 | I masnadieri | 4 | Italian | Her Majesty's Theatre, London
22 Jul 1847 |
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| 4a | Jérusalem |
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4 | French | Salle Le Peletier, Paris
26 Nov 1847 |
Revision and translation of I Lombardi alla prima crociata. |
| 12 | Il corsaro |
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3 | Italian | Teatro Grande, Trieste
25 Oct 1848 |
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| 13 | La battaglia di Legnano |
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4 | Italian | Teatro Argentina, Rome
27 Jan 1849 |
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| 14 | Luisa Miller |
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3 | Italian | San Carlo, Naples
8 Dec 1849 |
Loosely based on Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller. |
| 15 | Stiffelio |
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3 | Italian | Teatro Grande, Trieste
16 Nov 1850 |
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| 16 | Rigoletto |
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3 | Italian | La Fenice, Venice
11 Mar 1851 |
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| 17 | Il trovatore |
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4 | Italian | Teatro Apollo, Rome
19 Jan 1853 |
Cammarano died before completion; his libretto was restructured by Bardare. |
| 18 | La traviata |
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3 | Italian | La Fenice, Venice
6 Mar 1853 |
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| 19 | Les vêpres siciliennes | 5 | French | Salle Le Peletier, Paris
13 June 1855 |
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| 19a | Giovanna de Guzman |
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5 | Italian | Teatro Regio, Parma
26 Dec 1855 |
Revision and translation of Les vêpres siciliennes.
Also known as Batilda di Turenne in an 1858 Naples production[1]. After 1861 most commonly known as I vespri siciliani. |
| 17a | Le trouvère | 4 | French | La Monnaie, Brussels
20 May 1856[2] |
Revision and translation of Il trovatore, with added ballet. | |
| 20 | Simon Boccanegra |
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3 | Italian | La Fenice, Venice
12 Mar 1857 |
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| 15a | Aroldo |
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4 | Italian | Teatro Nuovo Communale, Rimini
16 Aug 1857 |
Revision of Stiffelio set in Anglo-Saxon Britain. Act 3 expanded. |
| 21 | Un ballo in maschera | 3 | Italian | Teatro Apollo, Rome
17 Feb 1859 |
Revision of the unperformed Gustavo III. | |
| 22 | La forza del destino |
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4 | Italian | Bolshoi, Saint Petersburg
10 Nov 1862 |
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| 10a | Macbeth |
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4 | Italian | Théâtre Lyrique, Paris
21 Apr 1865 |
Revised version with cuts including Macbeth's final aria. |
| 23 | Don Carlos | 5 | French | Salle Le Peletier, Paris
11 Mar 1867 |
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| 23a | Don Carlo |
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5 | Italian | Royal Italian Opera House, London
4 Jun 1867 |
Translation of Don Carlos, first performed with unauthorised amendments and cuts.
Italian première of this version took place on 4 Jun 1867 at the Teatro Comunale, Bologna. |
| 22a | La forza del destino |
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4 | Italian | La Scala, Milan
27 Feb 1869 |
Revised version, with text added by Ghislanzoni. |
| 24 | Aida |
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4 | Italian | Khedivia, Cairo
24 Dec 1871 |
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| 23b | Don Carlo |
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5 | Italian | San Carlo, Naples
Nov / Dec 1872 |
Revised version, with text added by Ghislanzoni. |
| 20a | Simon Boccanegra |
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3 | Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan
24 Mar 1881 |
Revised version, with text changed and added by Boito.
Act 1 Council Chamber finale added in this version. |
| 23c | Don Carlo |
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4 | Italian | La Scala, Milan
10 Jan 1884 |
Second revised version, omitting Act 1 and the ballet.
Initial revisions in French (from Don Carlos) by du Locle and Nuittier (working with Verdi). First performed in an Italian translation by Zanardini (incorporating previous work of de Lauzières). |
| 23d | Don Carlo |
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5 | Italian | Teatro Municipale, Modena
29 Dec 1886 |
Third revised version, restoring Act 1. |
| 25 | Otello |
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4 | Italian | La Scala, Milan
5 Feb 1887 |
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| 26 | Falstaff |
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3 | Italian | La Scala, Milan
9 Feb 1893 |
Incomplete projects
- Re Lear (King Lear), 1856. Librettist Antonio Somma worked with Verdi on completing a libretto for an opera based on Shakespeare's King Lear. This libretto was based on an incomplete one written by librettist Salvatore Cammarano before he died in 1852. It was never set to music.
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 notte 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)
Sacred works
- Messa da Requiem (22 May 1874, San Marco, Milan): mass in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra
- Libera me for Messa per Rossini (1869; premiered posthumously 11 September 1988, Stuttgart). Mass in memory of Gioachino Rossini. Verdi wrote the "Libera me", with contributions from 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 (1889): for mixed solo voices
- Stabat Mater (1897): for mixed chorus and orchestra
- Laudi alla Vergine Maria (1888): for female voices
- Te Deum (1896): for double chorus and orchestra
Other sacred works
- Tantum ergo in G major (1836)
- Tantum ergo in F major
- Messa in E-flat major
- Laudate pueri in D major
- Qui tollis in F major
Other vocal works (secular)
- Suona la tromba (1848) (Goffredo Mameli), a patriotic hymn
- Inno delle nazioni (1862, London) (Arrigo Boito), cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestra. (See Hymn (or Anthem) of the Nations)
Instrumental, orchestral, chamber works
Piano
- Romanza senza parole (written 1844, published 1865)
- Valzer (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)
Orchestral
- Sinfonia in B-flat major
- Sinfonia in C major
- Sinfonia del M. Verdi in D major
- with Giacomo Mori, Canto di Virginia Con Variazioni per Oboe Composte con accomp.to d'Orchestra quintetto
Chamber
- String Quartet in E minor (1873)
- Stramberia for violin and piano
References
Notes
- Budden, Vol. 2, p.369
- Pitou, p. 1333
- Budden, Vol. 2, p. 107
Sources
- Budden, Julian (1984), The Operas of Verdi, Vol. 2. London: Cassell, Ltd., 1984, pp. 360–423 ISBN 0-304-31059-X
- Budden, Julian (1984), The Operas of Verdi, Vol. 3: From Don Carlos to Falstaff. London: Cassell. ISBN 0-304-30740-8.
- Pitou, Spire (1990). The Paris Opéra: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers. Growth and Grandeur, 1815–1914. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-26218-0.
- Walker, Frank, The Man Verdi, New York: Knopf, 1962; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982 ISBN 0-226-87132-0
- Rizzo, Dino, Verdi filarmonico e Maestro dei filarmonici bussetani, Parma, Istituto nazionale di Studi verdiani, 2005, Premio Rotary Club "Giuseppe Verdi" - 6. ISBN 88-85065-26-0
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