Operas

The best known of Verdi's 28 operas are Nabucco (Nebuchadnezzar), Macbeth, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Les Vpres Siciliennes (The Sicilian Vespers), Simon Boccanegra, Un Ballo in Maschera (A Masked Ball), La Forza del Destino (The Force of Destiny), Don Carlos, Aida, Otello and Falstaff.

Church Music

In addition to settings of the Te Deum and the Stabat Mater, Verdi wrote an impressive large scale setting of the Requiem, its origin stemming from the death of Rossini in 1868 and the death of the writer Manzoni. The Requiem is a work of operatic magnificence, none the less moving for its theatrical elements. The Quattro pezzi sacri (Four Sacred Pieces) were written at various times in Verdi's later years. The first, 'Ave Maria sulla scala enigmatica', written in 1889, was followed, on publication, by a 'Stabat mater', the 'Laudi alla Vergine Maria', on a text from Dante, and a 'Te Deum' for double chorus and orchestra. The Four Pieces were published in 1898.

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