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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.
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== List of operas and revisions ==

{{legend2|#B9FFC7}} Revision of earlier opera, including translations with material musical changes.<!-- Librettists not directly involved in the preparation of a specific revision, but whose text (or a translation thereof) is included in the work, are shown in ''italics''.-->

{| class="wikitable"
!#
!|Title
!Libretto
!Acts
!Language
!Premiere
!Remarks

|-
|1
|''[[Oberto (opera)|Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio]]''
|
{{Interlanguage link|Antonio Piazza (writer)|it|Antonio Piazza (giornalista)|lt=Antonio Piazza}}<br/>[[Temistocle Solera]]
|2 
|Italian
|[[La Scala]], [[Milan]]<br/>17 Nov 1839
|Lightly revised three times after the première
|-
|2
|''[[Un giorno di regno]]''
|[[Felice Romani]]
|2 
|Italian
|La Scala, Milan<br/>5 Sep 1840
|Later revision known as ''Il finto Stanislao''
|-
|3
|''[[Nabucodonosor]]''
|Temistocle Solera
|4 
|Italian
|La Scala, Milan<br/>9 Mar 1842
|Later known as ''Nabucco''
|-
|4
|''[[I Lombardi alla prima crociata]]''
|Temistocle Solera
|4 
|Italian
|La Scala, Milan<br/>11 Feb 1843
|Later revised in French as ''Jérusalem''
|-
|5
|''[[Ernani]]''
|{{nowrap|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]}}
|4
|Italian
|[[La Fenice]], [[Venice]]<br/>9 Mar 1844
|Based on [[Hernani (drama)|work]] by [[Victor Hugo]]
|-
|6
|''[[I due Foscari]]''
|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|3 
|Italian
|[[Teatro Argentina]], Rome<br/>3 Nov 1844
|Based on [[The Two Foscari (Byron)|work]] by [[Lord Byron]]
|-
|7
|''[[Giovanna d'Arco]]''
|Temistocle Solera
|3 
|Italian
|La Scala, Milan<br/>15 Feb 1845
|Based on [[The Maid of Orleans (play)|work]] by [[Friedrich Schiller]]
|-
|8
|''[[Alzira (opera)|Alzira]]''
|[[Salvatore Cammarano]]
|2 
|Italian
|[[Teatro di San Carlo|San Carlo]], [[Naples]]<br/>12 Aug 1845
|
|-
|9
|''[[Attila (opera)|Attila]]''
|Temistocle Solera<br/>[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|3 
|Italian
|La Fenice, Venice<br/>17 Mar 1846
|Acts 1 and 2 written, and Act 3 sketched, by Solera<br/>Act 3 completed by Piave.
|-
|10
|''[[Macbeth (Verdi)|Macbeth]]''
|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|4 
|Italian
|[[Teatro della Pergola|La Pergola]], [[Florence]]<br/>14 Mar 1847
|Based on [[Macbeth|work]] by [[William Shakespeare]]
|-
|11
|''[[I masnadieri]]''
|[[Andrea Maffei]]
|4 
|Italian
|[[Her Majesty's Theatre]], London<br/>22 Jul 1847
|Based on [[The Robbers|work]] by [[Friedrich Schiller]]
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|4a
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[Jérusalem]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Temistocle Solera<br/>[[Alphonse Royer]]<br/>[[Gustave Vaëz]]
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|4
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|French
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|[[Salle Le Peletier]], Paris<br/>26 Nov 1847
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Revision and translation of ''I Lombardi alla prima crociata''
|-
|12
|''[[Il corsaro]]''
|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|3 
|Italian
|[[Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi|Teatro Grande]], [[Trieste]]<br/>25 Oct 1848
|Based on [[The Corsair|work]] by [[Lord Byron]]
|-
|13
|''[[La battaglia di Legnano]]''
|Salvatore Cammarano
|4 
|Italian
|Teatro Argentina, Rome<br/>27 Jan 1849
|
|-
|14
|''[[Luisa Miller]]''
|Salvatore Cammarano
|3 
|Italian
|San Carlo, Naples<br/>8 Dec 1849
|Based on [[Kabale und Liebe|work]] by [[Friedrich Schiller]]
|-
|15
|''[[Stiffelio]]''
|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|3 
|Italian
|Teatro Grande, Trieste<br/>16 Nov 1850
|Later revised as ''Aroldo''
|-
|16
|''[[Rigoletto]]''
|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|3 
|Italian
|La Fenice, Venice<br/>11 Mar 1851
|Based on [[Le roi s'amuse|work]] by [[Victor Hugo]]
|-
|17
|''[[Il trovatore]]''
|Salvatore Cammarano<br/>[[Leone Emanuele Bardare]]
|4
|Italian
|[[Teatro Apollo]], Rome<br/>19 Jan 1853
|Cammarano died before completion; his libretto was restructured by Bardare
|-
|18
|''[[La traviata]]''
|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|3 
|Italian
|La Fenice, Venice<br/>6 Mar 1853
|Based on [[The Lady of the Camellias|work]] by [[Alexandre Dumas fils]]
|-
|19
|''[[Les vêpres siciliennes]]''
|[[Charles Duveyrier]]<br/>[[Eugène Scribe]]
|5
|French
|Salle Le Peletier, Paris<br/>13 June 1855
|
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|19a
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[I vespri siciliani|Giovanna de Guzman]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Charles Duveyrier<br/>Eugène Scribe<br/>[[Ettore Caimi]]
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|5 
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Italian
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|[[Teatro Regio di Parma|Teatro Regio]], [[Parma]]<br/>26 Dec 1855
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Revision and translation of ''Les vêpres siciliennes''<br/>Also known as ''Batilda di Turenne'' in an 1858 Naples production<ref>Budden, Vol. 2, p.369</ref><br/>After 1861 most commonly known as ''I vespri siciliani''
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|17a
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[Il trovatore|Le trouvère]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Salvatore Cammarano<br/>Leone Emanuele Bardare<ref name="Pitou1333">Pitou, p. 1333</ref><ref>Budden, Vol. 2, p. 107</ref>
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|4 
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|French
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|[[La Monnaie]], Brussels<br/>20 May 1856<ref name="Pitou1333" />
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Revision and translation of ''Il trovatore'', with added ballet
|-
|20
|''[[Simon Boccanegra]]''
|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|3 
|Italian
|La Fenice, Venice<br/>12 Mar 1857
|
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|15a
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[Aroldo]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|4 
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Italian
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|{{ill|Teatro Nuovo Communale|it|Teatro Amintore Galli}}, [[Rimini]]<br/>16 Aug 1857
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Revision of ''Stiffelio'' set in [[Anglo-Saxon]] [[Great Britain|Britain]]<br/>Act 3 expanded
|-
|21
|''[[Un ballo in maschera]]''
|[[Antonio Somma]]
|3 
|Italian
|Teatro Apollo, Rome<br/>17 Feb 1859
|Revision of the unperformed ''[[Gustavo III (Verdi)|Gustavo III]]''
|-
|22
|''[[La forza del destino]]''
|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|4 
|Italian
|[[Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre|Bolshoi]], [[Saint Petersburg]]<br/>10 Nov 1862
|
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|10a
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[Macbeth (Verdi)|Macbeth]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|4 
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Italian
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|[[Théâtre Lyrique]], Paris<br/>21 Apr 1865
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Revised version with cuts including Macbeth's final aria
|-
|23
|''[[Don Carlos]]''
|[[Joseph Méry]]<br/>[[Camille du Locle]]
|5
|French
|Salle Le Peletier, Paris<br/>11 Mar 1867
|Based on [[Don Carlos (play)|work]] by [[Friedrich Schiller]]
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|23a
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[Don Carlos|Don Carlo]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Joseph Méry<br/>Camille du Locle<br/>{{ill|Achille de Lauzières|it}}
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|5 
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Italian
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|[[Royal Opera House|Royal Italian Opera House]], London<br/>4 Jun 1867
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Translation of ''Don Carlos'', first performed with unauthorised amendments and cuts<br/>Italian première of this version took place on 4 Jun 1867 at the [[Teatro Comunale di Bologna|Teatro Comunale]], [[Bologna]].
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|22a
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[La forza del destino]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]<br/>Antonio Ghislanzoni
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|4 
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Italian
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|La Scala, Milan<br/>27 Feb 1869
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Revised version, with text added by Ghislanzoni
|-
|24
|''[[Aida]]''
|Antonio Ghislanzoni
|4 
|Italian
|[[Khedivial Opera House|Khedivia]], Cairo<br/>24 Dec 1871
|
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|23b
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[Don Carlos|Don Carlo]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Joseph Méry<br/>Camille du Locle<br/>Achille de Lauzières<br/>Antonio Ghislanzoni
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|5
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Italian
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|San Carlo, Naples<br/>Nov / Dec 1872
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Revised version, with text added by Ghislanzoni
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|20a
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[Simon Boccanegra]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|[[Francesco Maria Piave]]<br/>Arrigo Boito
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|3
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Italian
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|La Scala, Milan<br/>24 Mar 1881
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Revised version, with text changed and added by Boito<br/>Act 1 Council Chamber finale added in this version
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|23c
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[Don Carlos|Don Carlo]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Joseph Méry<br/>Camille du Locle<br/>Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter<br/>Achille de Lauzières<br/>{{ill|Angelo Zanardini|it}}
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|4
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Italian
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|La Scala, Milan<br/>10 Jan 1884
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Second revised version, omitting Act 1 and the ballet<br/>Initial revisions in French (from ''Don Carlos'') by du Locle and Nuittier (working with Verdi)<br/>First performed in an Italian translation by Zanardini (incorporating previous work of de Lauzières)
|-
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|23d
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|''[[Don Carlos|Don Carlo]]''
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Joseph Méry<br/>Camille du Locle<br/>Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter<br/>Achille de Lauzières<br/>Angelo Zanardini
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|5
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Italian
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|[[Teatro Municipale di Reggio|Teatro Municipale]], [[Modena]]<br/>29 Dec 1886
|style="background:#B9FFC7"|Third revised version, restoring Act 1
|-
|25
|''[[Otello]]''
|Arrigo Boito
|4
|Italian
|La Scala, Milan<br/>5 Feb 1887
|Based on [[Othello|work]] by [[William Shakespeare]]
|-
|26 
|''[[Falstaff (opera)|Falstaff]]''
|Arrigo Boito
|3
|Italian
|La Scala, Milan<br/>9 Feb 1893
|Based on [[The Merry Wives of Windsor|work]] by [[William Shakespeare]]
|}

==Incomplete projects==
*''[[Re Lear]]'' (''King Lear''), 1856. Librettist [[Antonio Somma]] worked with Verdi on completing a libretto for an opera based on Shakespeare's ''[[King Lear]]''. This libretto was based on an incomplete one written by librettist [[Salvatore Cammarano]] before he died in 1852. It was never set to music.

== Songs ==
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* ''[[Sei Romanze (Verdi)|Sei Romanze]]'' (1838)
#''Non t'accostar all'urna'' ([[Jacopo Vittorelli]])
#''More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta'' ([[Tommaso Bianchi (songwriter)|Tommaso Bianchi]])
#''In solitaria stanza'' (Jacopo Vittorelli)
#''Nell'orror di notte oscura'' ([[Carlo Angiolini]])
#''Perduta ho la pace'' (trans. by [[Luigi Balestra]] from [[Goethe]]'s ''[[Goethe's Faust|Faust]]'')
#''Deh, pietoso, o addolorata'' (trans. by Luigi Balestra from Goethe's ''Faust'')
* ''L'esule'' (1839) ([[Temistocle Solera]])
* ''La seduzione'' (1839) (Luigi Balestra)
* ''Guarda che bianca luna: notturno'' (1839) (Jacopo Vittorelli) for soprano, tenor, bass and flute obbligato
* ''Album di Sei Romanze'' (1845)
#''Il tramonto'' ([[Andrea Maffei]])
#''La zingara'' (S. Manfredo Maggioni)
#''Ad una stella'' (Maffei)
#''Lo Spazzacamino'' ([[Felice Romani]])
#''Il Mistero'' (Felice Romani)
#''Brindisi'' (Maffei)
* ''Il poveretto'' (1847) (Maggioni)
* ''L'Abandonée'' (1849) ([[Léon Escudier|Escudier]])
* ''Stornello'' (1869) (anon.)
* ''Pietà Signor'' (1894) (Verdi and Boito)
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== Sacred works ==
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* ''[[Libera me]]'' for ''[[Messa per Rossini]]'' (1869; premiered posthumously 11 September 1988, Stuttgart). Mass in memory of [[Gioachino Rossini]]. Verdi wrote the "Libera me", with contributions from twelve other composers.
* ''[[Pater Noster (Verdi)|Pater Noster]]'' (1873): for 5-part chorus
* ''[[Requiem (Verdi)|Messa da Requiem]]'' (22 May 1874, [[San Marco (Milan)|San Marco]], Milan): mass in memory of [[Alessandro Manzoni]], for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra
* ''[[Ave Maria (1880 Verdi)|Ave Maria]]'' (1880): for soprano and strings
* ''[[Quattro pezzi sacri]]'' (7 April 1898, Grande Opéra, Paris):
#''[[Ave Maria (Verdi)|Ave Maria (1889)]]'': for mixed solo voices
#''[[Stabat Mater (Verdi)|Stabat Mater (1897)]]'': for mixed chorus and orchestra
#''[[Laudi alle Vergine Maria (Verdi)|Laudi alla Vergine Maria (1888)]]'': for female voices
#''[[Te Deum (Verdi)|Te Deum (1896)]]'': for double chorus and orchestra
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== Other sacred works ==
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* ''Tantum ergo'' in G major (1836)
* ''Tantum ergo'' in F major
* ''Messa'' in E-flat major
* ''Laudate pueri'' in D major
* ''Qui tollis'' in F major
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== Other vocal works (secular) ==
* ''[[Suona la tromba]]'' (1848) ([[Goffredo Mameli]]), a patriotic hymn
* ''[[Inno delle nazioni]]'' (1862, London) ([[Arrigo Boito]]), cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestra. (See ''[[Hymn of the Nations|Hymn (or Anthem) of the Nations]]'')

==Instrumental, orchestral, chamber works==
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'''Piano'''
* ''Romanza senza parole'' (written 1844, published 1865)
* Waltz in F Major (written 1859)
* ''Valzer'' (written by Verdi for piano, but not published until 1963 when [[Nino Rota]] adapted it for orchestra in his score for [[Luchino Visconti]]'s film ''[[The Leopard (1963 film)|The Leopard]]'')
'''Orchestral'''

* Sinfonia in B-flat major
* Sinfonia in C major
* ''Sinfonia del M. Verdi in D major ''
* with Giacomo Mori, ''Canto di Virginia Con Variazioni per Oboe Composte con accomp.to d'Orchestra quintetto''

'''Chamber'''
* [[String Quartet (Verdi)|String Quartet in E minor]] (1873)
* ''Stramberia'' for violin and piano
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==References==
'''Notes'''
{{reflist}}

'''Sources'''
*[[Julian Budden|Budden, Julian]] (1984), ''The Operas of Verdi'', Vol. 2. London: Cassell, Ltd., 1984, pp.&nbsp;360–423 {{ISBN|0-304-31059-X}}
*Budden, Julian (1984), ''The Operas of Verdi'', Vol. 3: From ''Don Carlos'' to ''Falstaff''. London: Cassell. {{ISBN|0-304-30740-8}}.
*Pitou, Spire (1990). ''The Paris Opéra: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers. Growth and Grandeur, 1815&ndash;1914''. New York: Greenwood Press. {{ISBN|978-0-313-26218-0}}.
*Walker, Frank, ''The Man Verdi'', New York: Knopf, 1962; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982  {{ISBN|0-226-87132-0}}
*Rizzo, Dino, ''Verdi filarmonico e Maestro dei filarmonici bussetani'', Parma, Istituto nazionale di Studi verdiani, 2005, Premio Rotary Club "Giuseppe Verdi" - 6. {{ISBN|88-85065-26-0}}

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