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Luisa Miller ( Teatro San Carlo, Naples).Opera in 4 acts, Salvatore Cammarano, after the play La Battaille de Toulouse by Joseph Méry. La battaglia di Legnano ( Teatro Argentina, Rome).Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after George Gordon Byron's poem The Corsair. Opera in 4 acts, Alphonse Royer & Gustave Vaëz. Jérusalem ( Académie Royale de Musique, Paris).Opera in 4 acts, Andrea Maffei, after Friedrich Schiller's drama Die Räuber Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after William Shakespeare's play. Macbeth ( Teatro della Pergola, Florence).Opera in a prologue & 3 acts, Temistocle Solera (and Francesco Maria Piave), after the play Attila, König der Hunnen by Zacharias Werner. Opera in a prologue and 2 acts, Salvatore Cammarano, after Voltaire's tragedy Alzire, ou les Américains. Opera in a prologue & 3 acts, Temistocle Solera, after Friedrich Schiller's drama Die Jungfrau von Orleans. Giovanna d'Arco ( Teatro alla Scala, Milan).Opera in 3 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after Lord Byron's play The Two Foscari. I due Foscari ( Teatro Argentina, Rome).Opera in 4 acts, Francesco Maria Piave, after the play Hernani by Victor Hugo. Opera in 4 acts, Temistocle Solera, after the poem of the same name by Tommaso Grossi. I lombardi alla prima crociata ( Teatro alla Scala, Milan).Opera in 4 parts, Temistocle Solera, after the play Nabucodonosor by Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue. Nabucodonosor ( Teatro alla Scala, Milan) ( Nabucco).Melodramma giocoso in 2 acts, Felice Romani, after the comedy Le Faux Stanislas by Alexandre Vincent Pineu-Duval. Un giorno di regno ( Teatro alla Scala, Milan).

Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio ( Teatro alla Scala, Milan).

Some of the pieces were presented to the public for the first time in the modern era and were staged as part of the Grand Finale Week of the Cycle. They have also recently been performed by Sarasota Opera in Florida as part of The Verdi Cycle, a 28-year project to perform all of the composer’s works, which started in 1989 and has just concluded. The ‘Young Verdi’ pieces: Sinfonia in D major, Sinfonia in C major, Sinfonia in G minor, In Convertendo, Memento Domine David, Tantum Ergo and Io la vidi will be published in the critical edition in 2020. Professor Izzo, the General Editor, is working with The University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi to publish all of Verdi’s compositions in reliable, authoritative editions that will serve the purposes of informed, modern performances and provide scholars with novel insights into Verdi’s life and music. The critical edition The Works of Giuseppe Verdi addresses this by revisiting authentic sources. Over the years, these copies and editions were inevitably altered – sometimes straying from the original in numerous and significant ways. The project to edit and perform these early works is part of a wider one to create a complete critical edition of Verdi’s compositions, based on original sources and respectful of authorial intention.Īfter Verdi had hand-written his operas and other compositions, manuscript copies were made, and printed editions were prepared. Historical records tell us that several pieces, including a Sinfonia in D Major and Sinfonia in C Major are certainly by Verdi.” Certainly the manuscripts are in his hand, with his notation, but because they were composed while working as an apprentice, it is possible there is influence from his master, or that he was asked to copy or complete someone else’s work. “We cannot be sure if Verdi wrote all of these pieces himself. I have been working to revive these and bring them to an appropriate, authentic standard for publication and performance.

Many of these did not survive, however, a number of early works have surfaced. Professor Izzo, Head of Music at Southampton, comments: “Verdi is known to have worked on a number of pieces when he was young – while studying under Ferdinando Provesi in Busseto. The edition has painstakingly researched and brought together the original manuscripts in the composer’s hand, combining them with his interpretation of missing sections or parts – taking great care to stay true to the original scores. Professor Francesco Izzo has supervised the edition of these compositions, dating from the 1830s, while producing a ‘critical edition’* to republish works by Verdi. Published: 11 April 2016 Bust of Giuseppe VerdiĪ music scholar from the University of Southampton has breathed new life into seven pieces of music written by the 19th century composer Giuseppe Verdi when he was in his late teens or early 20s.