Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813 – 1901) was the most important of all Italian opera composers, and his operas still form the core of Italian repertoire.  His most important operas are:

• Nabucco #41 (9 March 1842) libretto by Temistocle Solera
• Ernani (9 March 1844) libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
• I due Foscari (3 November 1844) libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
• Attila (17 March 1846) libretto by Temistocle Solera, Francesco Maria Piave 
• Macbeth #61 (14 March 1847) libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
• Luisa Miller (8 December 1849) libretto by Salvatore Cammarano
• Rigoletto #10 (11 March 1851) libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
• Il trovatore #31 (19 January 1853) libretto by Salvatore Cammarano, Leone Emanuele Bardare
• La traviata #6 (6 March 1853) libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
• Les vêpres siciliennes (13 June 1855) libretto by Charles Duveyrier, Eugène Scribe
• Simon Boccanegra #58 (12 March 1857) libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
• Un ballo in maschera #18 (17 February 1859 ) libretto by Antonio Somma
• La forza del destino #57 (10 November 1862) libretto by Francesco Maria Piave
• Aida #15 (24 December 1871 ) libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni
• Don Carlo #36 (November/December 1872) libretto by Camille du Locle, Joseph Méry; Achille de Lauzières (Italian trans.)
• Otello #28 (5 February 1887) libretto by Arrigo Boito
• Falstaff #22 (9 February 1893) libretto by Arrigo Boito

Several of these operas appeared in different versions, some in French.  You may see these.