List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi explained

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
1	Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio	Temistocle Solera	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	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	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
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
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 poem by Lord Byron
13	La battaglia di Legnano	Salvatore Cammarano	4	Italian	Teatro Argentina, Rome 27 Jan 1849
14	Luisa Miller	Salvatore Cammarano	3	Italian	San Carlo, Naples 8 Dec 1849	Loosely based on Kabale und Liebe by Friedrich Schiller
15	Stiffelio	Francesco Maria Piave	3	Italian	Teatro Grande, Trieste 16 Nov 1850
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
19	Les vêpres siciliennes	Charles Duveyrier Eugène Scribe	5	French	Salle Le Peletier, Paris 13 June 1855
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	Revision and translation of Il trovatore, with added ballet
20	Simon Boccanegra	Francesco Maria Piave	3	Italian	La Fenice, Venice 12 Mar 1857
15a	Aroldo	Francesco Maria Piave	4	Italian	, 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
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
23a	Don Carlo	Joseph Méry Camille du Locle	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
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	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
26	Falstaff	Arrigo Boito	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)

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 notte 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)

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):

1. Ave Maria (1889)

for mixed solo voices

1. Stabat Mater (1897)

for mixed chorus and orchestra

1. Laudi alla Vergine Maria (1888)

for female voices

1. 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
• Budden, Julian (1984), The Operas of Verdi, Vol. 3: From Don Carlos to Falstaff. London: Cassell. .
• Pitou, Spire (1990). The Paris Opéra: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers. Growth and Grandeur, 1815 - 1914. New York: Greenwood Press. .
• Walker, Frank, The Man Verdi, New York: Knopf, 1962; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982
• Rizzo, Dino, Verdi filarmonico e Maestro dei filarmonici bussetani, Parma, Istituto nazionale di Studi verdiani, 2005, Premio Rotary Club "Giuseppe Verdi" - 6.

Notes and References

1. Budden, Vol. 2, p.369
2. Pitou, p. 1333
3. Budden, Vol. 2, p. 107