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List Of Verdi’s Works |
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I. OPERAS
1. Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, opera in 2 acts by Temistocle Solera (probably adapted from Rocester by Antonio Piazza). Milan, Scala, 17.11.1839.
2. Un giorno di regno (later Il finto Stanislao), melodramma giocoso in 2 acts by Felice Romani (after Le faux Stanislas, comedy by Alexnadre Vincent Pineu-Duval). Milan, Scala, 3.9.1840.
3. Nabucodonosor (later Nabucco), opera in 4 parts by Temistocle Solera (after Nabucodonosor, play by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue). Milan, Scala, 9.3.1842.
4. I Lombardi alla prima crociata, opera in 4 acts by Temistocle Solera (after poem of the same title by Tommaso Grossi). Milan, Scala, 11.2.1843.
5. Ernani, opera in 4 acts by Francesco Maria Piave (after Hernani, play by Victor Hugo). Venice, Fenice, 9.3.1844.
6. I due Foscari, opera in 3 acts by Francesco Maria Piave (after The two Foscari, play by Lord Byron). Rome, Argentina. 3.11.1844.
7. Giovanna d’Arco, opera in a prologue and 3 acts by Temistocle Solera (after Die Jungfrau von Orleans, play by Schiller). Milan, Scala, 15.2.1845.
8. Alzira, opera in a prologue and 2 acts by Salvatore Cammarano (after Alzire, ou les Américains, tragedy by Voltaire). Naples, San Carlo, 12.8.1845.
9. Attila, opera in a prologue and 3 acts by Temistocle Solera, additions by Francesco Maria Piave (after Attila, König der Hunnen, play by Zacharias Werner). Venice, Fenice, 17.3.1846.
10. Macbeth, opera in 4 acts by Francesca Maria Piave, with additions by Andrea Maffei (after Shakespeare). Florence, Pergola, 14.3.1847; revised version Paris, Théâtre Lyrique, 19.4.1865.
11. I masnadieri, opera in 4 acts by Andrea Maffei (after Die Räuber, play by Schiller). London, Her Majesty’s, 22.7.1847.
12. Jérusalem, opera in 4 acts by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz (adapted from I Lombardi). Paris, Opéra, 22.11.1847.
13. Il corsaro, opera in 3 acts by Francesco Maria Piave (after The corsair, poem by Lord Byron). Trieste, Teatro Grande, 25.10.1848.
14. La battaglia di Legnano, opera in 4 acts by Salvatore Cammarano (after La battaille de Toulouse, play by Joseph Méry). Rome, Argentina, 27.1.1849.
15. Luisa Miller, opera in 3 acts by Salvatore Cammarano (after Kabale und Liebe, play by Schiller). Naples, San Carlo, 8.12.1849.
16. Stiffelio, opera in 3 acts by Francesco Maria Piave (after Le pasteur, ou L’évangile et le foyer, play by Emile Silvestre and Eugène Bourgeois). Trieste, Teatro Grande, 16.10.1850.
17. Rigoletto, opera in 3 acts by Francesco Maria Piave (after Le roi s’amuse, play by Victor Hugo) Venice, Fenice, 11.3.1851.
18. Il Trovatore, opera in 4 parts by Salvatore Cammarano, with additions by Leone Emanuele Bardare (after El trovador, play by Antonio Garcia Gutiérrez). Rome, Apollo, 19.1.1853.
19. La Traviata, opera in 3 acts by Francesco Maria Piave (after La dame aux camélias, play by Alexandre Dumas, fils). Venice, Fenice, 6.3.1853.
20. Les vêspres siciliennes, opera in 5 acts by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier (after Le duc d’Albe, Libretto by the same authors). Paris, Opéra, 13.6.1855.
21. Simon Boccanegra, opera in a prologue and 3 acts by Francesco Maria Piave, with additions by Giuseppe Montanelli (after Simon Boccanegra, play by Antonio Garcia Gutiérrez). Venice, Fenice, 12.3.1857; revised version with additions by Arrigo Boito, Milan, Scala, 24.3.1881.
22. Araldo, opera in 4 acts by Francesco Maria Piave (adapted from Stiffelio). Rimini, Teatro Nuovo, 18.8.1857.
23. Un ballo in maschera, opera in 3 acts by Antonio Somma (after Gustave III ou le bal masqué, libretto Eugène Scribe). Rome, Apollo, 17.2.1859.
24. La forza del destino, opera in 4 acts by Angel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, with a scene added from Schiller’s Wallensteins Lager, translated by Andrea Maffei). St. Petersburg, Bolshoi, 10.11.1862; revised version with addition by Antonio Ghislanzoni, Milan, Scala, 27.2.1869.
25. Don Carlos, opera in 5 acts by Joseph Méry and Camille Du Locle (after Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien, play by Friedrich Schiller). Paris, Opéra, 11.3.1867; revised version in 4 acts, additions to French text by Du Locle, Italian translation by Angelo Zanardini based on that original version by Achille De Lauzières, Milan, Scala, 10.1.1884.
26. Aida, opera in 4 acts by Antonio Ghislanzoni (after scenario by Auguste Mariette). Cairo, Opera House, 24.12.1871.
27. Otello, opera in 4 acts by Arrigo Boito (after Shakespeare). Milan, Scala, 5.2.1887.
28. Falstaff, opera in 3 acts by Arrigo Boito (after Shakespeare). Milan, Scala, 9.2.1893.
II. MISCELLANEOUS OPERATIC COMPOSITIONS
Io la vidi for tenor and orchestra, text from Il Solitario ed Elodia by Giuseppe Persiani, comp. 1832-5 (?).
Pria che scende sull’indegno, duet for Leonora and Cuniza in Oberto, probably a relic from Rocester and removed before first performance; composed c.1837 (?).
D’innocenza I cari inganni, cavatina for Cuniza in Oberto, composed 1840 for Luigia Abbadia, text by Solera (?).
Ah Riccardo, a mia ragione, duet for Cuniza and Riccardo in Oberto composed 1840 for Luigia Abbadia and Lorenzo Salvi, text by Solera (?).
Dove corri, o sciagurata?, duet for Leonora and Oberto in Oberto, composed 1841 for Antonietta Rainieri-Marini and Ignazio Marini. Text unknown.
Ma fin che un brando vindice, cabaletta for Oberto in Oberto composed summer 1841 for Ignazio Marini, text by Solera (?). (pub. In vocal score of Ernani as “Infin che un brando vindice”).
Oh, dischius’ è il firmamento, alternative setting of Fenena’s prayer from Nabucco composed late 1842 for Almerinda Granchi, text by Solera.
Come poteva un angelo, alternative setting of Oronte’s cabaletta from I Lombardi composed summer 1843 for Antonio Poggi, text by Solera. (pub. in vocal score).
Odi il voto, O grande Iddio, aria for title role in Ernani composed late summer-autumn 1844 for Nicola Ivanoff, text by Piave (?) pub. Suvini Zerboni.
Potrei lasciar la margine, cavatina for Giovanna in Giovanna d’Arco composed winter 1845-6 for Sofia Loewe, text unknown, music lost.
Si, lo sento, Iddio mi chiama, cabaletta for Jacopo in I due Foscari composed summer 1846 for Giovanni Mario, text by Piave (?).
Sventurato! Alla mia vita, romanza for Foresto in Attila composed late summer 1846 for Nicola Ivanoff, text by Piave, (music inaccessible).
Oh dolore! Ed io vivea, romanza for Foresto in Attila composed autumn 1846 for Napoleone Moriani, text by Piave (?).
O toi que j’ai chérie, romance for Henri in Les vêspres siciliennes composed 1863 for Villaret, text unknown.
Overture: Aida: composed 1872 then withdrawn; pub. Suvini Zerboni.
Prends pitié de sa jeunesse, mélodie for Maddalena in Rigoletto adapted from romanza, Il poveretto (1847).
III. CHORAL AND RELIGIOUS WORKS
Tantum Ergo for tenor and orchestra, composed 1863 for Luigi Machiavelli.
Suona la tromba for 3-part male chorus and orchestra, composed summer 1849, text by Goffredo Mameli.
Inno delle nazioni for tenor, chorus and orchestra, composed 1862 for London’s Great Exhibition, text by Arrigo Boito.
Libera me for soprano, chorus and orchestra composed 1869 for composite requiem in memory of Rossini.
Messa da Requiem for SATB soloists, chorus and orchestra composed 1873-4 to commemorate anniversary of death of Alessandro Manzoni.
Ave Maria for soprano and string orchestra, composed 1879-80 for benefit concert, text attributed to Dante.
Pater Noster, for 5-part unaccompanied chorus composed 1879-80 for benefit concert, text attributed to Dante.
Laudi alla Vergine Maria for 4-part female voices composed 1887-8, pub. 1898 as no. 3 of Quattro pezzi sacri; text by Dante from the final canto of Paradiso.
Ave Maria sulla scala enigmatica for 4-part unaccompanied chorus composed 1889, pub. As no. 1 of Quattro pezzi sacri.
Pietà, Signor! For tenor and piano composed 1894 and pub. in periodical Fata Morgana for victims of earthquakes in Sicily and Calabria, text adapted from De profundis by Arrigo Boito.
Te Deum for double chorus and orchestra composed 1895-6, pub. 1898 as no. 4 of Quattro pezzi sacri.
Stabat Mater for chorus and orchestra, composed 1896-7(?), pub. 1898 as no. 2 of Quattro pezzi sacri.
IV. VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC
Sei romanze (pub. 1838)
Non t’accostare all’urna, poem by Jacopo Vittorelli.
More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta, poem by Tommaso Bianchi.
In solitaria stanza, poem by Jacopo Vittorelli.
Nell’orror di notte oscura, poem by Carlo Angiolini.
Perduta ho la pace, poem by Goethe, translated by Luigi Balestra.
Deh, pietoso, oh Addolorata, poem by Goethe, translated by Luigi Balestra.
Guarda che bianca luna, notturno for STB, flute and piano, poem by Jacopo Vittorelli (pub. 1839).
L’esule (pub. ?1839), poem by Temistocle Solera.
La seduzione (pub. ?1839), poem by Luigi Balestra.
Chi I bei dì m’adduce ancora, poem by Goethe translated by Luigi Balestra (?), composed 1842 for autograph album of Sofia De’Medici, Marchesa di Marignano, pub. Frank Walker in The Music Review, Vol. 9 no. 1, Feb. 1948.
Sei romanze (pub. 1845)
Il tramonto, poem by Andrea Maffei.
La Zingara, poem by Manfredo Maggioni.
Ad una stella, poem by Andrea Maffei.
Lo spazzacamino, poem by Manfredo Maggioni.
Il Mistero, poem by Felice Romani.
Brindisi, poem by Andrea Maffei (earlier version ‘according to the autograph’ pub. by Ricordi as no. 16 in their Composizioni di camera 1935, reprinted 1948).
Il poveretto (pub. 1847), poem by Manfredo Maggioni (see also [II]) Prends pitié de sa jeunesse).
L’abandonnée (pub. 1849), poem by Marie and Léon Escudier (reprinted 1882 by Heugel).
Fiorellin che sorgi appena, barcarole, poem by Francesco Maria Piave (comp. Nov 1850 for Giovanni Severi; pub. in facsimile in G. Steffani Verdi e Trieste (Trieste 1951).
La preghiera del poeta, poem by Nicola Sole (comp. 1858; pub. in Rivista Musicale Italiana. Vol. XLV, anno 1941).
Il Brigidino, poem by Francesco Dall’Ongaro (comp. 1863 for niece of Piroli; pub. by Sonzogno, 1948).
Stornello, poem anon. (contribution to Album Piave, pub. 1869).
V. INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Sinfonia in D
Valzer
Romanza senza parole for piano (pub. 1865 in Gioie e sospiri by Canti).
String Quartet in E minor (comp. 1873, pub. 1876). |
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