Over the next few years, Véron brought on Auber's Gustave III ( 1833, libretto by Scribe, later adapted for Verdi's Un ballo in maschera ), and Fromental Halévy's La Juive ( 1835, libretto also by Scribe ), and commissioned Meyerbeer's next opera Les Huguenots ( 1836, libretto by Scribe and Deschamps ), whose success was to prove the most enduring of all grand operas during the 19th century.

1847 saw the premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's first opera for Paris, Jérusalem, an adaptation, meeting the grand opera conventions, of his earlier I Lombardi alla prima crociata.

Verdi's Aida, despite having only four acts, corresponds in many ways to the grand opera formula.

Le Perle was truly a ballet à grand spectacle: based on the un-staged danced scene La Pérégrina from Verdi's opera Don Carlos, which was to have been choreographed by Petipa's brother Lucien.

In 1847, the opera was significantly revised to become Verdi's first grand opera for performances in French at the Salle Le Peletier of the Paris Opera under the title of Jérusalem.

While it was not Verdi's first grand opera for Paris ( the first being his adaptation of I Lombardi in 1847 under the new title of Jerusalem ), the libretto which Verdi was using had been written about 20 years before at the height of the French grand opera tradition, which " meant that Verdi was writing his first ( original ) opéra at a point at which the genre was in a state of flux ".

Fing, a lean, chiseled, impeccable gentleman of the old school who was once mistaken on the street for Sir Cedric Hardwicke, is responsible for the rediscovery of Verdi's earliest, most raucous opera, Nabisco, a sumptuous bout-de-souffle with a haunting leitmotiv that struck me as being highly reminiscent of the Mudugno version of `` Volare ''.

On 12 April 2008, a version of Verdi's opera Un ballo in maschera directed by Johann Kresnik opened at the Erfurt Theater.

* 1843 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi receives its first performance in Milan.

* Falstaff ( 1893 ), Giuseppe Verdi's last opera, with a libretto by Arrigo Boito.

It was while he was working on his second opera, Un giorno di regno, that Verdi's wife died.

Due to a number of Parisian conventions that had to be honored ( including extensive ballets ), it became Verdi's first work in the French Grand opera style.

Some feel that although masterfully orchestrated, it lacks the melodic lustre so characteristic of Verdi's earlier, great, operas, while many critics consider it Verdi's greatest tragic opera, containing some of his most beautiful, expressive music and some of his richest characterizations.

Verdi's last opera, Falstaff, whose libretto was also by Boito, was based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor and Victor Hugo's subsequent translation.

With the possible exception of Giacomo Puccini, no composer of Italian opera has managed to match Verdi's popularity.

* 1853 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore receives its premiere performance in Rome.

* 1842 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan ; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.

* 1839 – Oberto, Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, opens at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan,

Verdi's opera choruses of an oppressed people inspired two generations of patriots in Italy, especially with " Va pensiero " ( Nabucco, 1842 ).

* March 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.

** Giuseppe Verdi's opera Otello makes its first appearance on Live from the Met, in a complete production of the opera starring Jon Vickers.

* November 17 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera, Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio, opens in Milan.

* March 9 – Giuseppe Verdi's third opera Nabucco premieres in Milan ; its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.

* February 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera I Lombardi premieres in Milan.

* March 11 – Giuseppe Verdi's opera Rigoletto is first performed at La Fenice in Venice.

For example, Verdi's opera Aida ( 1871 ) is set in Egypt as portrayed through the content and the visual spectacle.

The prolific operas of these composers, plus the works of Verdi's maturity, such as Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Don Carlos / Don Carlo, the revised Simon Boccanegra, Aida, Otello and Falstaff, blazed many new and rewarding performance pathways for baritones.

They included Giorgio Ronconi, who created the title role in Verdi's Nabucco ; Felice Varesi, who created the title roles in Macbeth and Rigoletto as well as Germont in La traviata ; Antonio Superchi, the originator of Don Carlo in Ernani ; Francesco Graziani, who was the original Don Carlo di Vargas in La forza del destino ; Leone Giraldoni, the creator of Renato in Un ballo in maschera and the first Simon Boccanegra ; Enrico Delle Sedie, who was London's first Renato ; Adriano Pantaleoni, renowned for his performances as Amonasro in Aida as well as other Verdi roles at La Scala, Milan ; Francesco Pandolfini, whose singing at La Scala during the 1870s was praised by Verdi ; Antonio Cotogni, a much lauded singer in Milan, London and Saint Petersburg, the first Italian Posa in Don Carlos and later a great vocal pedagogue, too ; and Giuseppe Del Puente, who sang Verdi to acclaim in the United States.

The theatre's opening on May 25, the Día de la Patria in Argentina, featured a performance of Verdi's Aida and it quickly became a world-famous operatic venue rivaling La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera in attracting most of the world's best opera singers and conductors.

Walter led Verdi's Aida at his debut.

Between 1948 and 1952, he conducted ten concerts telecast on NBC, including a two-part concert performance of Verdi's complete opera Aida starring Herva Nelli and Richard Tucker, and the first complete telecast of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

There were two Toscanini telecasts in 1949, both devoted to the concert performance of Verdi's Aida from studio 8H.

Ramfis and Rhadamés were named after characters in Giuseppe Verdi's opera Aida.

Typical roles for mezzo-sopranos include the stereotypical triad associated with contraltos of " witches, bitches, and britches ": witches, nurses, and wise women, such as Azucena in Verdi's Il trovatore ; villains and seductresses such as Amneris in Verdi's Aida ; and " trouser " characters ( male characters played by female singers ) such as Cherubino in Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro.

* December 24-Giuseppe Verdi's Opera Aida premieres.

In 1980, he directed Giuseppe Verdi's opera " Aida " starring Luciano Pavarotti at San Francisco Opera ( now broadcast version released as DVD ).

Opera also became increasingly popular during this period, and Giuseppe Verdi's Egyptian-themed Aida was premiered in Cairo on December 24, 1871.

Meanwhile, in her first season at the Met, 1886 – 87, Förster sang several roles in German, including the title role of the Queen of Sheba in Goldmark's Die Königin von Saba, Elsa in Lohengrin, Irene in Wagner's Rienzi, the title role in the U. S. premiere of Verdi's Aida and Elizabeth in Tannhäuser.

His other published complete opera recordings included La traviata with Rosanna Carteri, Cesare Valletti, and conductor Pierre Monteux, Pagliacci with Victoria de los Ángeles, Jussi Björling and Robert Merrill ; Tosca, Aida, and Il trovatore, each with Zinka Milanov and Jussi Björling ; a second recording of Il trovatore with his friend and final tenor co-star, Richard Tucker, featuring a young Leontyne Price in her Met debut role of Leonora ; and Verdi's Macbeth, with Leonie Rysanek and Carlo Bergonzi.

It originally gained prominence when it was included in the second act of Verdi's Aida for a performance in Lyon in 1886.

Similar plans were scheduled for Verdi's Aida in the 2005 – 2006 season, but were cancelled because of insufficient financial support.

* In the film, Caruso makes his American debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's Aida and is met with silence from the audience and scathing critical reviews.

In 1972, Norman debuted at La Scala, where she sang the title role in Verdi's Aida and at London's Royal Opera at Covent Garden, where she sang the role of Cassandra in Berlioz's Les Troyens.

She died at the age of thirty-five in 1943, just as she was reaching the peak of her powers as a singer and about to achieve her greatest dream: to star in the title role of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida.

The first 20th-century operatic production at the arena, a staging of Giuseppe Verdi's Aida, took place on 10 August of that year, to mark the birth of Verdi 100 years before in 1813.

After a year studying with Vera Nikolayevna Garina, she won a competition held by the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow ( with Rachmaninoff's song " O, Do Not Grieve " and Verdi's aria " O patria mia " from Aida ) in 1952.

In that year, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Aida in Giuseppe Verdi's opera of that name.