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Critical Edition

First performance

Librettist
(Literary source)

1

Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio (2)  Luke Jensen Milan,
17 Nov 1839
[T. Solera] (? after A. Piazza's libretti Rocester, Lord Hamilton

2

Un giorno di regno
(Il finto Stanislao) (2)
Francesco Izzo Milan,
5 Sep 1840
[F. Romani, ? rev. Solera] (after Romani's Il finto Stanislao for Gyrowetz, 1812, after A. V. Pineux-Duval: Le faux Stanislau)

3

Nabucodonosor
(Nabucco) (4)
Roger Parker Milan,
9 Mar 1842
T. Solera (after A. Cortesi's ballet, 1838, after A. Anicet-Bourgeois and F. Cornu's play, 1836)

4

I Lombardi alla prima crociata (4) David Kimbell Milan,
1 Feb 1843
T. Solera (after T. Grossi's poem, 1826)

5

Ernani (4) Claudio Gallico Venice,
9 Mar 1844
F. M. Piave (after Hugo's play Hernani, 1830)

6

I due Foscari (3) Andreas Giger Rome,
3 Nov 1844
F. M. Piave (after Byron's play The Two Foscari, 1821)

7

Giovanna d'Arco (4) Alberto Rizzuti Milan,
15 Feb 1845
T. Solera (after Schiller's play Die Jungfrau von Orleans, 1801)

8

Alzira (3) Stefano Castelvecchi with Jonathan Cheskin Naples,
12 Aug 1845
S. Cammarano (after Voltaire's play Alzire, ou Les Américains, 1736)

9

Attila (prologue, 3) Helen Greenwald Venice,
17 Mar 1846
T. Solera [and Piave] (after
Z. Werner's play, Attila, König der Hunnen, 1808)

10

Macbeth
(first version, 1847; rev. 1865) (4)
 David Lawton Florence, 14 Mar 1847;
Paris, 21 Apr 1865
F. M. Piave and A. Maffei (after Shakespeare); Fr tr by C. Nuitter and A. Beaumont

11

I masnadieri (4) Roberta Montemorra Marvin London,
22 July 1847
A. Maffei (after Schiller's play Die Räuber, 1781)

12

Jérusalem (4) Alessandra Carlotta Pellegrini and Arrigo Quattrocchi Paris,
26 Nov 1847
A. Royer and G. Vaëz (from 1843
I Lombardi
libretto)

13

Il corsaro (3) Elizabeth Hudson Trieste,
25 Oct 1848
F. M. Piave (after Byron's poem The Corsair, 1814)

14

La battaglia di Legnano (4) Douglas Ipson Rome,
27 Jan 1849
S. Cammarano (after J. Méry's play La Bataille de Toulouse, 1828)

15

Luisa Miller (3) Jeffrey Kallberg Naples,
8 Dec 1849
S. Cammarano (after Schiller's play Kabale und Liebe, 1784)

16

Stiffelio (3) Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell Trieste,
16 Nov 1850
F. M. Piave (after E. Souvestre and E. Bourgeois's play Le Pasteur, ou L’Évangile et le foyer, 1849)

17

Rigoletto (3) Martin Chusid Venice,
11 Mar 1851
F. M. Piave (after Hugo's play Le Roi s'amuse, 1832)

18A

Il trovatore (4) David Lawton Rome,
19 Jan 1853
S. Cammarano [and L. E. Bardare] (after A. García Gutiérrez's play El trovador, 1836)

18B

Le Trouvère David Lawton  Paris,
12 Jan 1857
E. Pacini and Verdi (from 1853 Il trovatore libretto)

19

La traviata (3) Fabrizio Della Seta Venice,
6 Mar 1853
F. M. Piave (after Dumas fils' play La Dame aux camélias, 1852)

20

Les Vêpres siciliennes (5)   Paris,
13 June 1855
E. Scribe and C. Duveyrier (after Scribe’s libretto for Donizetti's Le Duc d'Albe, 1839)

21

Simon Boccanegra (first version, 1857)
(prologue, 3)
  Venice,
12 Mar 1857
F. M. Piave [and G. Montanelli] (after A. García Gutiérrez's play Simón Bocanegra, 1843)

22

Aroldo (4)   Rimini,
16 Aug 1857
F. M. Piave (after Stiffelio, 1850)

23

Un ballo in maschera (3) Ilaria Narici Rome,
17 Feb 1859
 A. Somma (after E. Scribe's libretto for Auber's Gustave III, 1833)

24

La forza del destino (4) Philip Gossett and William Holmes St. Petersburg,
10 Nov 1862
(rev. by A. Ghislanzoni for Milan, 27 Feb
1869)
F. M. Piave (after A. P. de Saavedra's play Don Alvaro, o La fuerza del sino, 1835, with scenes from Schiller's play Wallensteins Lager, 1799)

25

Don Carlos
(first version, 1867) (5)
Gabriele Dotto Paris,
11 Mar 1867
J. Méry and C. Du Locle (after Schiller's play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien, 1787, W. H. Prescott's History of Philip II, 1856, and E. Cormon's play Philippe II, roi d'Espagne, 1849)

26

Aida (4) Philip Gossett  Cairo,
24 Dec 1871
 A. Ghislanzoni (from A. Mariette's scenario amplified as Fr prose libretto by C. Du Locle)

27

Simon Boccanegra (second version, 1881) (prologue, 3)   Milan,
24 Mar 1881
F. M. Piave [rev. A. Boito] (from 1857 libretto)

28

Don Carlo
(second version, 1884) (4)
Gabriele Dotto Milan,
10 Jan 1884
J. Méry and C. Du Locle [rev. Du Locle] (after 1867 libretto and Schiller's play, 1787; It tr A. de Lauzières and A. Zanardini)

29

Otello (4)   Milan,
5 Feb 1887
A. Boito (after Shakespeare’s play Othello, or The Moor of Venice)

30

Falstaff (3) Gabriele Dotto Milan,
9 Feb 1893
A. Boito (after Shakespeare's plays The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV)

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