You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

After listening to Verdi's Requiem the German prolific and eloquent in his comments on some other composers stated "It would be best not to say anything. These included his I Lombardi in 1843 and Ernani in 1844. Works

Verdi's operas and their date of première are:
Oberto 17 November 1839
Un giorno di regno 5 September 1840
Nabucco 9 March 1842
I Lombardi alla prima crociata 11 February 1843
Ernani 9 March 1844
I due Foscari 3 November 1844
Giovanna d'Arco 15 February 1845
Alzira 12 August 1845
Attila 17 March 1846
Macbeth 14 March 1847
I masnadieri 22 July 1847
Jérusalem (a revision and translation of I Lombardi alla prima crociata) 26 November 1847
Il corsaro 25 October 1848
La battaglia di Legnano 27 January 1849
Luisa Miller 8 December 1849
Stiffelio 16 November 1850
Rigoletto 11 March 1851
Il trovatore 19 January 1853
La traviata 6 March 1853
Les vêpres siciliennes 13 June 1855
Simon Boccanegra (Original Version) 12 March 1857
Aroldo (A major revision of Stiffelio) 16 August 1857
Un ballo in maschera 17 February 1859
La forza del destino 10 November 1862
Don Carlos 11 March 1867
Aida 24 December 1871
Simon Boccanegra (Revised Version) 24 March 1881
Otello 5 February 1887
Falstaff 9 February 1893


Political significance
Unlike most of the visual arts opera was commercially profitable accessible to most classes of society and thus an effective means of reaching the 19th-century public.

Some of his themes have long since taken root in popular culture – such as "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto "Va pensiero" (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (The Drinking Song) from La traviata and the "Grand March" from Aida.