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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.
In the eleven years up to and including Traviata, Verdi had written sixteen operas. Over the next eighteen years (up to Aida ), he wrote only six new works for the stage. [ 84 ] Verdi was happy to return to Sant'Agata and, in February 1856, was reporting a "total abandonment of music; a little reading; some light occupation with agriculture and ...
1850 Stiffelio (Giuseppe Verdi). Verdi's tale of adultery among members of a German Protestant sect fell foul of the censors. [95] 1851 Rigoletto (Verdi). The first – and most innovative – of three middle period Verdi operas which have become staples of the repertoire. [96] 1853 Il trovatore (Verdi). This Romantic melodrama is one of Verdi ...
Pages in category "Operas by Giuseppe Verdi" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Aida;
La traviata (Italian: [la traviˈaːta,-aˈvjaː-]; The Fallen Woman) [1] [2] is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi set to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave.It is based on La Dame aux camélias (1852), a play by Alexandre Dumas fils, which he adapted from his own 1848 novel.
Il corsaro (The Corsair) is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, from a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on Lord Byron's 1814 poem The Corsair. The first performance was given at the Teatro Grande in Trieste on 25 October 1848.
Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi had read the ultra-Romantic play in April 1844, probably introduced to it by his friend Andrea Maffei who had written a synopsis. [2] A letter to Francesco Maria Piave (with whom he had worked on both Ernani and I due Foscari) had included the subject of Attila as opera number 10 on a list of nine other possible projects, [3] and in that same letter, he encouraged Piave ...
Don Carlos [1] is an 1867 five-act grand opéra composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French-language libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle.Its basis is Friedrich Schiller's play Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien, but it borrows from Eugène Cormon's play Philippe II, Roi d'Espagne, [2] as well.