Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (birth registry: Joseph Fortunin François Verdi; baptized Joseph Fortuninus Franciscus) Born: Le Roncole, near Busseto, Duchy of Parma, 10 Oct. 1813 Died: Milan, Italy, 27 Jan. 1901

Operas

• Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio (17.11.1839 Teatro alla Scala, Milan). Opera in 2 acts, Temistocle Solera.
• Un giorno di regno (5.9.1840 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) [Il finto Stanislao]. Melodramma giocoso in 2 acts, Felice Romani, after the comedy Le Faux Stanislas by Alexandre Vincent Pineu-Duval.
• Nabucodonosor (9.3.1842 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) (Nabucco). Opera in 4 parts, Temistocle Solera, after the play Nabucodonosor by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue.
• I lombardi alla prima crociata (11.2.1843 Teatro alla Scala, Milan). Opera in 4 acts, Temistocle Solera, after the poem of the same name by Tommaso Grossi.
• Ernani (9.3.1844 Teatro la Fenice, Venice). Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the play Hernani by Victor Hugo.
• I due Foscari (3.11.1844 Teatro Argentina, Rome). Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after Lord Byron's play The Two Foscari.
• Giovanna d'Arco (15.2.1845 Teatro alla Scala, Milan). Opera in a prologue & 3 acts, Temistocle Solera, after Schiller's drama Die Jungfrau von Orleans.
• Alzira (12.8.1845 Teatro San Carlo, Naples). Opera in a prologue and 2 acts, Salvatore Cammarano, after Voltaire's tragedy Alzire, ou les Américains.
• Attila (17.3.1846 Teatro la Fenice, Venice). Opera in a prologue & 3 acts, Temistocle Solera (and Francesco Maria Piave), after the play Attila, König der Hunnen by Zacharias Werner.
• Macbeth (14.3.1847 Teatro della Pergola, Florence). Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after Shakespeare's play.
• I masnadieri. (22.7.1847 Her Majesty's Theatre, London). Opera in 4 acts, Andrea Maffei, after Schiller's drama Die Räuber
• Jérusalem [rev of I lombardi] (26.11.1847 Académie Royale de Musique, Paris). Opera in 4 acts, Alphonse Royer & Gustave Vaëz.
• Il corsaro (25.10.1848 Teatro Grande, Trieste). Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after Lord Byron's poem The Corsair.
• La battaglia di Legnano (27.1.1849 Teatro Argentina, Rome). Opera in 4 acts, Salvatore Cammarano, after the play La Battaille de Toulouse by Joseph Méry.
• Luisa Miller (8.12.1849 Teatro San Carlo, Naples). Opera in 3 acts, Salvatore Cammarano, after Schiller's drama Kabale und Liebe.
• Stiffelio (16.11.1850 Teatro Grande, Trieste). Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the play Le Pasteur, ou L'Évangile et le Foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois.
• Rigoletto (11.3.1851 Teatro la Fenice, Venice). Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the drama Le Roi s'amuse by Victor Hugo.
• Il trovatore (19.1.1853 Teatro Apollo, Rome). Opera in 4 acts, Salvatore Cammarano (and Leone Emanuele Bardare), after the play El Trovador by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
• La traviata (6.3.1853 Teatro la Fenice, Venice). Opera in 4 parts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the play La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils.
• Les vêpres siciliennes (13.6.1855 Académie Impériale de Musique, Paris). Grand opera in 5 acts, Augustin Eugène Scribe & Charles Duveyrier, after their libretto Le Duc d'Albe
• Giovanna de Guzman (I vespri siciliani) [rev of Les vêpres siciliennes] (26.12.1855 Teatro Regio, Parma). Scribe & Eugenio Caimi.
• Simon Boccanegra (12.3.1857 Teatro la Fenice, Venice). Opera in a prologue and 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave (and Giuseppe Montanelli), after the play Simon Bocanegra by Antonio García Gutiérrez.
• Aroldo [rev of Stiffelio] (16.8.1857 Teatro Nuovo, Rimini). Opera in 4 parts, Francesco Maria Piave
• Un ballo in maschera (17.2.1859 Teatro Apollo, Rome) Opera in 3 acts, Antonio Somma, after Scribe's libretto Gustave III.
• La forza del destino (10.11.1862 Bol'shoy Kamennïy Teatr, St. Petersburg). Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, (and Andrea Maffei) after the play Don Alvaro, o La Fuerza del sino by Angel de Saavedra, Duke of Rivas, and Schiller's drama Wallensteins Lager.
• Macbeth [rev] (19.4.1865 Théâtre Lyrique, Paris).
• Don Carlos (11.3.1867 Académie Impériale de Musique, Paris) Grand opera in 5 acts, Joseph Méry & Camille du Locle, after Schiller's dramatic poem Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien
• La forza del destino [rev] (27.2.1869 Teatro alla Scala, Milan). Libretto additions by Antonio Ghislanzoni
• Aida (24.12.1871 Opera House, Cairo). Opera in 4 acts, Antonio Ghislanzoni, from a scenario by Auguste Mariette.
• Don Carlo [rev of Don Carlos] (1872, Naples). Translation by Achille de Lauzières, with additions by Antonio Ghislanzoni.
• Simon Boccanegra [rev] (24.3.1881 Teatro alla Scala, Milan). Libretto additions and changes by Arrigo Boïto.
• La force du destin [rev of La forza del destino] (14.3.1883, Antwerp). Libretto translated and adapted by Charles Nuitter & Camille du Locle.
• Don Carlo [rev 2 of Don Carlos] (10.1.1884 Teatro alla Scala, Milan). Opera in 4 acts.
• Don Carlo [rev 3 of Don Carlos] (29.12.1886, Modena). Opera in 4 acts.
• Otello (5.2.1887 Teatro alla Scala, Milan). Opera in 4 acts, Arrigo Boïto, after Shakespeare's Othello.
• Falstaff (9.2.1893 Teatro alla Scala, Milan). Opera in 3 acts, Arrigo Boïto, after Shakespeare's Falstaff and Henry IV, (1 & 2).

Other Larger Works

• Inno delle Nazioni (1862, London)
• String Quartet in e (1873)
• Requiem (22.5.1874, Church of San Marco, Milan): mass in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra
• Pater noster (1873): for 5-part chorus
• Ave Maria (1880): for soprano and strings
• Quatro Pezzi sacri (7.4.1898, Grande Opéra, Paris):
  • Ave Maria: for mixed chorus
  • Stabat Mater: for mixed chorus
  • Laudi alla Vergine Maria: for female chorus
  • Te Deum: for double chorus and orchestra

Creators of Roles

Portraits

1. Painting (JPEG; 9080)
2. Photograph, c. 1875 (JPEG; 24527)

A Verdi Discography

References

• Budden, Julian: The Operas of Verdi, Revised edition, Oxford University Press, 1973, 1992.