List of Verdis Operas and some Details

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Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by

Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco
Maria Piave, based on the play Hernani by Victor
Hugo. Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La
Fenice in Venice to write an opera, but finding the
right subject took some time, and the composer
worked with the inexperienced Piave in shaping
first one and then another drama by Hugo into an
acceptable libretto.
Nabucco is an Italian-language opera in four acts
composed in 1841 by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian
libretto by Temistocle Solera. The libretto is based
on the Biblical story and the 1836 play by Auguste
Anicet-Bourgeois and Francis Cornue, although
Antonio Cortese's ballet adaptation of the play,
given at La Scala in 1836, was a more important
source for Solera than the play itself.

Ernani is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by

Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco
Maria Piave, based on the play Hernani by Victor
Hugo. Verdi was commissioned by the Teatro La
Fenice in Venice to write an opera, but finding the
right subject took some time, and the composer
worked with the inexperienced Piave in shaping
first one and then another drama by Hugo into an
acceptable libretto.
Aida, is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to
an Italian libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni, based
on a scenario often attributed to French
Egyptologist Auguste Mariette, although Verdi
biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz has argued
that the scenario was actually written by
Temistocle Solera. Aida was first performed at the
Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on 24 December
1871.