16. Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
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Giuseppe Verdi

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Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio (Oberto, Count of San Bonifacio)

Milan , Teatro alla Scala, November 17, 1839 dramma; libretto by Temistocle Solera, from Antonio Piazza's libretto Rocester

Un giorno di regno (King for a Day)

Milan , Teatro alla Scala, September 5, 1840 melodramma; libretto by Felice Romani, after Alexandre Vincent Pineu-Duval's Le faux Stanislas

Nabucco

Milan , Teatro alla Scala, March 9, 1842 dramma lirico; libretto by Temistocle Solera, after Auguste Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornu's Nabuchodonosor and Antonio Cortesi's Nabuchodonosor

I Lombardi alla prima crociata (The Lombards )

Milan , Teatro alla Scala, February 11, 1843 dramma lirico; libretto by Temistocle Solera, after Tommaso Grossi

Ernani

Venice , Teatro La Fenice, March 9, 1844 dramma lirico; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Victor Hugo's Hernani

I due Foscari (The Two Foscari)

Rome , Teatro Argentina , November 3, 1844 tragedia lirica; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Byron's The Two Foscari

Giovanna d'Arco (Joan of Arc)

Milan , Teatro alla Scala, February 15, 1845 dramma lirico; libretto by Temistocle Solera, in part after Friedrich von Schiller's Die Jungfrau von Orleans

Alzira

Naples , Teatro di San Carlo, August 12, 1845 tragedia lirica; libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, after Voltaire's Alzire, ou Les Américains

Attila

Venice , Teatro La Fenice, March 17, 1846 dramma lirico; libretto by Temistocle Solera [and F. M. Piave], after Zacharias Werner's Attila, König der Hunnen

Macbeth

Florence , Teatro della Pergola, March 14, 1847 opera; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffei, after William Shakespeare

I masnadieri
(The Thieves)

London , Her Majesty's Theatre, July 22, 1847 melodramma; libretto by Andrea Maffei, after Friedrich von Schiller's Die Räuber

Jérusalem

Paris , Opéra, November 26, 1847 opera; libretto by Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaëz, from Temistocle Solera's 1843 libretto I Lombardi

Il corsaro (The Corsair)

Trieste , Teatro Grande, October 25, 1848 opera; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Byron's The Corsair

La battaglia di Legnano (The Battle of Legnano)

Rome , Teatro Argentina , January 27, 1849 tragedia lirica; libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, after Joseph Méry's La bataille de Toulouse

Luisa Miller

Naples , Teatro di San Carlo, December 8, 1849 melodramma; libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, after Friedrich von Schiller's Kabale und Liebe

Stiffelio

Trieste , Teatro Grande, November 16, 1850 opera; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Emile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois's Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer

Rigoletto

Venice , Teatro La Fenice, March 11, 1851 melodramma; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse

Il trovatore (The Troubadour)

Rome , Teatro Apollo, January 19, 1853 dramma; Salvadore Cammarano, after Antonio García Gutiérrez's El trovador

La traviata (The Fallen Woman)

Venice , Teatro La Fenice, March 6, 1853 opera; Francesco Maria Piave, after Alexandre Dumas fils's La dame aux camélias

Les vêpres siciliennes (The Sicilian Vespers)

Paris , Opéra, June 13, 1855 opera; libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier, after their libretto Le duc d'Albe

Simon Boccanegra

Venice , Teatro La Fenice, March 12, 1857 opera; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Antonio García Gutiérrez's Simón Bocanegra

Aroldo

Rimini , Teatro Nuovo, August 16, 1857 opera; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, from his libretto for Stiffelio

Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball)

Rome , Teatro Apollo, February 17, 1859 melodramma; libretto by Antonio Somma, from Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel-François-Esprit Auber's Gustave III, ou le bal masqué

La forza del destino
(The Force of Destiny)

St. Petersburg , Imperial Theatre, November 10, 1862 opera; libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Ángel de Saavedra's Don Alvaro, o La fuerza del sino

Don Carlos

Paris , Opéra, March 11, 1867 opera; libretto by Joseph Méry and Camille du Locle, after Friedrich von Schiller

Aïda

Cairo , Cairo Opera House, December 24, 1871 opera; libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, from Auguste Mariette's scenario

Otello

Milan , Teatro alla Scala, February 5, 1887 dramma lirico; libretto by Arrigo Boito, after William Shakespeare's Othello, or the Moor of Venice

Falstaff

Milan , Teatro alla Scala, February 9, 1893 commedia lirica; libretto by Arrigo Boito, after William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor and King Henry IV

Courtesy of Minnesota Opera

1. Madama Butterfly
2. La bohème
3. La traviata
4. Carmen
5. The Barber of Seville
6. The Marriage of Figaro
7. Don Giovanni
8. Tosca
9. Rigoletto
10. The Magic Flute
11. La Cenerentola
12. Turandot
13. Lucia di Lammermoor
14. Pagliacci
15. Cosî fan tutte
16. Aida
17. Il trovatore
18. Faust
19. Die Fledermaus
20. The Elixir of Love