List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi
The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901).
The list includes original creations as well as reworkings of the operas (some of which are translations, for example into French or from French into Italian) or subsequent versions of completed operas.
List of operas and revisions
Revision of earlier opera, including translations with material musical changes.
| # | Title | Libretto | Acts | Language | Premiere | Remarks |
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| 1 | Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio | 2 | Italian | La Scala, Milan 17 Nov 1839 |
Lightly revised three times after the première | |
| 2 | Un giorno di regno | Felice Romani | 2 | Italian | La Scala, Milan 5 Sep 1840 |
Later revision known as Il finto Stanislao |
| 3 | Nabucodonosor | Temistocle Solera | 4 | Italian | La Scala, Milan 9 Mar 1842 |
Later known as Nabucco |
| 4 | I Lombardi alla prima crociata | Temistocle Solera | 4 | Italian | La Scala, Milan 11 Feb 1843 |
Later revised in French as Jérusalem |
| 5 | Ernani | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 | Italian | La Fenice, Venice 9 Mar 1844 |
Based on work by Victor Hugo |
| 6 | I due Foscari | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 | Italian | Teatro Argentina, Rome 3 Nov 1844 |
Based on work by Lord Byron |
| 7 | Giovanna d'Arco | Temistocle Solera | 3 | Italian | La Scala, Milan 15 Feb 1845 |
Based on work by Friedrich Schiller |
| 8 | Alzira | Salvatore Cammarano | 2 | Italian | San Carlo, Naples 12 Aug 1845 |
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| 9 | Attila | Temistocle Solera Francesco Maria Piave |
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 | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 | Italian | La Pergola, Florence 14 Mar 1847 |
Based on work by William Shakespeare |
| 11 | I masnadieri | Andrea Maffei | 4 | Italian | Her Majesty's Theatre, London 22 Jul 1847 |
Based on work by Friedrich Schiller |
| 4a | Jérusalem | Temistocle Solera Alphonse Royer Gustave Vaëz |
4 | French | Salle Le Peletier, Paris 26 Nov 1847 |
Revision and translation of I Lombardi alla prima crociata |
| 12 | Il corsaro | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 | Italian | Teatro Grande, Trieste 25 Oct 1848 |
Based on work by Lord Byron |
| 13 | La battaglia di Legnano | Salvatore Cammarano | 4 | Italian | Teatro Argentina, Rome 27 Jan 1849 |
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| 14 | Luisa Miller | Salvatore Cammarano | 3 | Italian | San Carlo, Naples 8 Dec 1849 |
Based on work by Friedrich Schiller |
| 15 | Stiffelio | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 | Italian | Teatro Grande, Trieste 16 Nov 1850 |
Later revised as Aroldo |
| 16 | Rigoletto | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 | Italian | La Fenice, Venice 11 Mar 1851 |
Based on work by Victor Hugo |
| 17 | Il trovatore | Salvatore Cammarano Leone Emanuele Bardare |
4 | Italian | Teatro Apollo, Rome 19 Jan 1853 |
Cammarano died before completion; his libretto was restructured by Bardare |
| 18 | La traviata | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 | Italian | La Fenice, Venice 6 Mar 1853 |
Based on work by Alexandre Dumas fils |
| 19 | Les vêpres siciliennes | Charles Duveyrier Eugène Scribe |
5 | French | Salle Le Peletier, Paris 13 June 1855 |
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| 19a | Giovanna de Guzman | Charles Duveyrier Eugène Scribe Ettore Caimi |
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 | Salvatore Cammarano Leone Emanuele Bardare[2][3] |
4 | French | La Monnaie, Brussels 20 May 1856[2] |
Revision and translation of Il trovatore, with added ballet |
| 20 | Simon Boccanegra | Francesco Maria Piave | 3 | Italian | La Fenice, Venice 12 Mar 1857 |
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| 15a | Aroldo | Francesco Maria Piave | 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 | Antonio Somma | 3 | Italian | Teatro Apollo, Rome 17 Feb 1859 |
Revision of the unperformed Gustavo III |
| 22 | La forza del destino | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 | Italian | Bolshoi, Saint Petersburg 10 Nov 1862 |
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| 10a | Macbeth | Francesco Maria Piave | 4 | Italian | Théâtre Lyrique, Paris 21 Apr 1865 |
Revised version with cuts including Macbeth's final aria |
| 23 | Don Carlos | Joseph Méry Camille du Locle |
5 | French | Salle Le Peletier, Paris 11 Mar 1867 |
Based on work by Friedrich Schiller |
| 23a | Don Carlo | Joseph Méry Camille du Locle Achille de Lauzières |
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 | Francesco Maria Piave Antonio Ghislanzoni |
4 | Italian | La Scala, Milan 27 Feb 1869 |
Revised version, with text added by Ghislanzoni |
| 24 | Aida | Antonio Ghislanzoni | 4 | Italian | Khedivia, Cairo 24 Dec 1871 |
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| 23b | Don Carlo | Joseph Méry Camille du Locle Achille de Lauzières Antonio Ghislanzoni |
5 | Italian | San Carlo, Naples Nov / Dec 1872 |
Revised version, with text added by Ghislanzoni |
| 20a | Simon Boccanegra | Francesco Maria Piave Arrigo Boito |
3 | Italian | La 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 | Joseph Méry Camille du Locle Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter Achille de Lauzières Angelo Zanardini |
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 | Joseph Méry Camille du Locle Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter Achille de Lauzières Angelo Zanardini |
5 | Italian | Teatro Municipale, Modena 29 Dec 1886 |
Third revised version, restoring Act 1 |
| 25 | Otello | Arrigo Boito | 4 | Italian | La Scala, Milan 5 Feb 1887 |
Based on work by William Shakespeare |
| 26 | Falstaff | Arrigo Boito | 3 | Italian | La Scala, Milan 9 Feb 1893 |
Based on work by William Shakespeare |
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
- 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
- Messa da Requiem (22 May 1874, San Marco, Milan): mass in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra
- 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)
- Waltz in F Major (written 1859)
- 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
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
