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Giuseppe Verdi

Italian opera composer (1813–1901)

13 dated entries naming Giuseppe Verdi, drawn from 11 separate years between 1839 CE and 1978 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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19th century

  • 1839November 17 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio, opens in Milan.source
  • 1842March 9 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres at La Scala in Milan; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost operatic composers.source
  • 1843February 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata premieres at La Scala in Milan.source
  • 1844March 9 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Ernani debuts at Teatro La Fenice, Venice.source
  • 1844November 3 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I due Foscari debuts at Teatro Argentina, Rome.source
  • 1851March 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.source
  • 1853January 19 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore premieres at Teatro Apollo in Rome.source
  • 1853March 6 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera La traviata premieres at La Fenice in Venice, but is poorly received at this time.source
  • 1874May 22 – Verdi's Requiem is first performed at San Marco in Milan, marking the first anniversary of Manzoni's death.source
  • 1887February 5 – The Giuseppe Verdi opera Otello premieres at La Scala, Milan.source

20th century

  • 1947December 6 – Arturo Toscanini conducts a concert performance of the first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello, for a broadcast on NBC Radio in the United States. The second half of the opera is broadcast a week later.source
  • 1949March 26 – The first half of Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida, conducted by legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini, and performed in concert (i.e. no scenery or costumes), is telecast by NBC, live from Studio 8H at Rockefeller Center. The second half is telecast a week later. This is the only complete opera that Toscanini ever conducts on television.source
  • 1978September 24 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers. This is the first complete television broadcast of the opera in the U.S. since the historic 1948 one.source

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