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Works
Edition:

The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, ed. P. Gossett and others (Chicago and Milan, 1983) [V]

Operas
Title Genre, acts Libretto First performance; remarks

V; autograph

Genre and librettist (when not in square brackets) are as stated on the libretto of the first performance (except for I masnadieri, which the London libretto describes as a tragic opera and Macbeth, Il corsaro, Stiffelio, La traviata, Simon Boccanegra and Aroldo, in which the libretto gives no genre). Oberto, conte di dramma, 2 T. Solera, from A. Piazza's lib. Rocester Milan, Scala, 17 I-Mr San Bonifacio Nov 1839 Un giorno di melodramma F. Romani, [? rev. Solera], from Romani's Milan, Scala, 5 Mr regno [Il finto giocoso, 2 lib. for A. Gyrowetz's Il finto Stanislao Sept 1840; Stanislao] (1818), after A.V. Pineu-Duval: Le faux alternative title first Stanislas (play, 1808) used 1845 Nabucodonosor dramma Solera, after A. Anicet-Bourgeois and F. Milan, Scala, 9 1/iii; Mr [Nabucco] lirico, 4 pts Cornu: Nabuchodonosor (play, 1836) and March 1842 A. Cortesi: Nabuccodonosor (ballet, 1838) I Lombardi alla dramma Solera, after T. Grossi (poem, 1826) Milan, Scala, 11 Mr prima crociata lirico, 4 Feb 1843 Ernani dramma F.M. Piave, after V. Hugo: Hernani (play, Venice, Fenice, 9 1/v; Mr lirico, 4 pts 1830) March 1844 I due Foscari tragedia Piave, after Byron: The Two Foscari (play, Rome, Argentina, Mr lirica, 3 1821) 3 Nov 1844 Giovanna dramma Solera, in part after F. von Schiller: Die Milan, Scala, 15 Mr

Giovanna d'Arco Alzira Attila Macbeth rev. version I masnadieri

dramma lirico, prol., 3 tragedia lirica, prol., 2 dramma lirico, prol., 3 opera, 4

Solera, in part after F. von Schiller: Die Jungfrau von Orleans (play, 1801) S. Cammarano, after Voltaire: Alzire, ou Les Amricains (play, 1736) Solera [and Piave], after Z. Werner: Attila, Knig der Hunnen (play, 1808) [Piave and A. Maffei], after W. Shakespeare (play, 16056) opra, 4 Piave, from 1847 lib.; Fr. trans. by C. Nuitter and A. Beaumont melodramma, [Maffei], after Schiller: Die Ruber (play, 4 pts 1781) opra, 4 opera, 3 tragedia lirica, 4 melodramma tragico, 3 opera, 3 A. Royer and G. Vaz, from Solera's 1843 lib. I Lombardi alla prima crociata Piave, after Byron: The Corsair (poem, 1814) Cammarano, after J. Mry: La bataille de Toulouse (play, 1828) Cammarano, after Schiller: Kabale und Liebe (play, 1784) Piave, after E. Souvestre and E. Bourgeois: Le pasteur, ou L'vangile et le foyer (play, 1849)

Jrusalem Il corsaro La battaglia di Legnano Luisa Miller Stiffelio

Milan, Scala, 15 Feb 1845 Naples, S Carlo, 12 Aug 1845 Venice, Fenice, 17 March 1846 Florence, Pergola, 14 March 1847 Paris, Lyrique, 21 April 1865 London, Her Majesty's, 22 July 1847 Paris, Opra, 26 Nov 1847 Trieste, Grande, 25 Oct 1848

Mr 1/viii; Mr Gb-Lbl I-Mr F-Pn (part autograph) I-Mr

F-Pn 1/xiii; I-Mr Mr 1/xv; Mr Mr

Rigoletto Il trovatore La traviata Les vpres siciliennes Simon Boccanegra rev. version Aroldo Un ballo in maschera La forza del destino

rev. version Don Carlos rev. version, Don Carlo

Rome, Argentina, 27 Jan 1849 Naples, S Carlo, 8 Dec 1849 Trieste, Grande, 16 Nov 1850; autograph used for Aroldo, 1857 melodramma, Piave, after Hugo: Le roi s'amuse (play, Venice, Fenice, 11 3 1832) March 1851 dramma, 4 Cammarano [and L.E. Bardare], after A. Rome, Apollo, 19 pts Garca Gutirrez: El trovador (play, 1836) Jan 1853 opera, 3 Piave, after A. Dumas fils: La dame aux Venice, Fenice, 6 camlias (play, 1852) March 1853 opra, 5 E. Scribe and C. Duveyrier, after their lib. Le Paris, Opra, 13 duc d'Albe (1838) June 1855 opera, prol., Piave [and G. Montanelli], after Garca Venice, Fenice, 12 3 Gutirrez: Simn Bocanegra (play, 1843) March 1857 melodramma, Piave [rev. A. Boito], from 1857 lib. Milan, Scala, 24 prol., 3 March 1881 opera, 4 Piave, from his lib. Stiffelio (1850) Rimini, Nuovo, 16 Aug 1857 melodramma, A. Somma, from Scribe's lib. for Auber's Rome, Apollo, 17 3 Gustave III, ou Le bal masqu (1833) Feb 1859 opera, 4 Piave, after A. de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas: St Petersburg, Don Alvaro, o La fuerza del sino (play, Imperial, 10 Nov 1835) with a scene from Schiller: 1862 Wallensteins Lager (play, 1799), trans. by Maffei opera, 4 Piave [rev. A. Ghislanzoni], from his 1862 Milan, Scala, 27 lib. Feb 1869 opra, 5 Mry and C. Du Locle, after Schiller's Paris, Opra, 11 dramatic poem (1787) March 1867 opera, 4 [rev. Du Locle] from Mry's and Du Locle's Milan, Scala, 10 1867 lib.; It. trans. by A. de Lauzires and A. Jan 1884 Zanardini

1/xvii; Mr 1/xviii; Mr 1/xix; Mr F-Pn I-Mr Mr Mr Mr Mr

Mr F-Pn I-Mr

Aida

Cairo, Opera, 24 Mr Dec 1871 Otello dramma Boito, after Shakespeare: Othello, or the Milan, Scala, 5 Feb Mr lirico, 4 Moor of Venice (play, 16045) 1887 Falstaff commedia Boito, after Shakespeare: The Merry Wives Milan, Scala, 9 Feb Mr lirica, 3 of Windsor (play, 160001) and King Henry 1893 IV (plays, 15978) For alternative or additional numbers in Oberto, Nabucco, I Lombardi, Ernani, I due Foscari, Giovanna d'Arco and Attila, see D. Lawton and D. Rosen: Verdi's Non-definitive Revisions: the Early Operas, Studi verdiani III: Milan 1972, 189237.

opera, 4

Ghislanzoni, from A. Mariette's scenario

Other works Choral

Messa di Gloria, S, A, T, B, mixed vv, orch, 18324; first perf. 15 Sept 1835, Busseto, BScr (collab. with F. Provesi) Inno popolare (Suona la tromba) (G. Mameli), TTB, pf, 1848 (1848) Inno delle nazioni (A. Boito), solo v, mixed vv, orch, 1862, London, Her Majesty's, 24 May 1862, vs (1862) Libera me, S, mixed vv, orch, 18689 [from collab. Requiem for Rossini; incorporated in Messa da Requiem, 1874] Messa da Requiem, S, A, T, B, mixed vv, orch, 1874, Milan, S Marco, 22 May 1874, vs (1874); with new setting of Liber scriptus, 1875, London, Albert Hall, May 1875, vs (1875), fs pr. (c1877), pubd (1913), autograph [with both settings of Liber scriptus] I-Ms, facs. (1941); facs. of Libera me (1988); V, 3/i Pater noster (attrib. Dante), SSATB, 1880 (1880), Mr Quattro pezzi sacri, pubd together in vs (1898), fs (London, 1973): Ave Maria (Scala enigmatica armonizzata a quattro voci miste), SATB, orig. version, 1889, Parma, 1895, 8 bars in GMM, l (1895), 454; rev. version (1898) Laudi alla Vergine Maria (Dante: Paradiso, xxxiii), S, S, A, A, c1890, Paris, 7 April 1898 (1898) Te Deum, SATB, SATB, orch, 18956, Paris, 7 April 1898, fs pr. (1898), pubd (Leipzig, c1935) Stabat mater, SATB, orch, 18967, Paris, 7 April 1898, fs pr. (1898), pubd (Leipzig, c1935)

Songs and vocal trio

for 1 voice, piano unless otherwise stated
Edition:

G. Verdi: Composizioni da camera per canto e pianoforte (Milan, 1935) [CC]

Brindisi (Maffei), 1st version, ?1835 (1935), CC, Mr 6 romanze (1838), CC, Mr: Non t'accostare all'urna (J. Vittorelli), More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta (T. Bianchi), In

6 romanze (1838), CC, Mr: Non t'accostare all'urna (J. Vittorelli), More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta (T. Bianchi), In solitaria stanza (Vittorelli), Nell'orror di notte oscura (C. Angiolini), Perduta ho la pace (Goethe, trans. L. Balestra), Deh, pietoso, oh Addolorata (Goethe, trans. Balestra) Notturno (Guarda che bianca luna) (Vittorelli), S, T, B, fl obbl, pf (1838), Ms L'esule (Solera) (1839), CC, Mr La seduzione (Balestra) (1839), CC, Mr Chi i bei di m'adduce ancora (Goethe, trans. ?Balestra), 1842, ed. in MR, ix (1948), 13 la vita dun mar daffanni, 1844 Era bella ancor piu bella, 1844 Il tramonto (Maffei), 1st version, 1845, US-NYpm 6 romanze (1845), CC, I-Mr: Il tramonto (Maffei) [2nd version], La zingara (S.M. Maggioni), Ad una stella (Maffei), Lo spazzacamino (F. Romani), Il mistero (Romani), Brindisi (Maffei) [2nd version] Il poveretto (Maggioni) (1847), CC L'abandonne (M. L. E[?scudier]) (1849) Barcarola (Piave), 1850, facs. in G. Stefani: Verdi e Trieste (Trieste, 1951) Sgombra, o gentil, 1858 La preghiera del poeta (N. Sole), ?1858, ed. in RMI, xlv (1941), 230 Il brigidino (F. dall'Ongaro), 1861, facs. in Scenario, x/2 (1941) Stornello (anon.) (1869), CC Cupo il sepolcro e mutolo, 1873, Ms Piet, Signor (Boito) (1894)

Other vocal
Io la vidi (from C. Bassi: Il solitario ed Eloisa), aria, T, [T], orch, ?18325, US-NYpm, facs. 3 pp. [of 24] in Verdiana, vi (1951), 14ff, in Abbiati: Verdi, i (1959), facing p.160, and in M. Chusid: A Catalog of Verdi's Operas (Hackensack, NJ, 1974), 19, ed. in Inediti per tenore (Milan, 1978) Tantum ergo, T, orch, 1836, Ms, ed. in Inediti per tenore (Milan, 1978) Ave Maria (Dante), S, str, 1880, arrs. incl. for v, pf (1880), Mr

Instrumental
Sinfonia, A, orch, BScr Adagio, tr, orch, BScr Sinfonia, D, orch, ?18325, Ms, facs. in Studi verdiani, ix (1993) Romanza senza parole, pf, 1844 (1865) Waltz, pf, facs. in Discoteca, iv/30 (1963), 19 String Quartet, e, 1873 (1876), Nc
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