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This project is ongoing.

These 38 image restorations (not counting some minor work) were created as part of Adam Cuerden's Verdi Image Project restoration drive in mid-2015 to early 2016, in honour of long-standing project member Viva-Verdi, who died earlier that year. They are on a subpage because it was slowing down the loading of the talk page.

Not every restoration is Verdi, of course, but Viva-Verdi never limited himself to Verdi either.

Verdi

Other opera

Other Verdi images

Better than nothing

Images that have problems, but are still better than what we had. Sometimes, there just isn't any decent source material.

Non-restorations

Images that are probably able to make featured picture status, but which needed little or no work on my part.


By Verdi opera

Operas in red have no known image at present, operas in bold have only a low-res image or unaltered image. Goal is at least 2/3rds of the operas with at least some sort of image.

  1. Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio (1839)
  2. Un giorno di regno (1840)
  3. Nabucco (1842)
  4. I Lombardi alla prima crociata (1843) File:Giuseppe Verdi, Lombardi alla prima crociata. Libretto, 1843 - Restoration.jpg
  5. Ernani (1844)
  6. I due Foscari (1844)
  7. Giovanna d'Arco (1845) File:Giuseppe Verdi, Giovanna d'Arco, Vocal Score - Restoration.jpg
  8. Alzira (1845)
  9. Attila (1846) File:Illustrated London News - Giuseppe Verdi's Attila at Her Majesty's Theatre, London.jpg (unrestored)
  10. Macbeth (1847) (unrestored)
  11. I masnadieri (1847) File:Costumes for Act I of Giuseppe Verdi's I masnadieri - Original.png (unrestored)
  12. Jérusalem (1847) See below. Too many choices.
  13. Il corsaro (1848)
  14. La battaglia di Legnano (1849)
  15. Luisa Miller (1849)
  16. Stiffelio (1850) - Low-res available.
  17. Rigoletto (1851) File:Giuseppe Verdi, Rigoletto, Vocal score illustration by Roberto Focosi - Restoration.jpg
  18. Il trovatore (1853) - See below.
  19. La traviata (1853) File:Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata title page - Restoration.jpg
  20. Les vêpres siciliennes / I vespri siciliani (1855) (It would be nice to have one each, but...) http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWireIndex=index&lang=EN&q=Les+v%C3%AApres+siciliennes&p=1&f_typedoc=images
  21. Simon Boccanegra (1857/1881) File:Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra sheet music cover.jpg (unrestored)
  22. Aroldo (1857)
  23. Un ballo in maschera (1859) File:Giuseppe Verdi, Un Ballo in maschera, Vocal score frontispiece - restoration.jpg
  24. La forza del destino (1862) File:Alexandre Charles Lecocq - Giuseppe Verdi - La forza del destino.jpg
  25. Don Carlos (1867) http://pds.lib.harvard.edu/pds/view/2710309 (low res) - Gallica has tons, from http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84373641/f1.zoom.r=don%20carlo%20verdi.langEN to http://gallica.bnf.fr/Search?ArianeWireIndex=index&f_typedoc=images&q=don+carlos+verdi&lang=EN&n=15&p=2&pageNumber=2 - File:Giuseppe Barberis - Carlo Cornaglia - Giuseppe Verdi's Don Carlo at La Scala.jpg to start.
  26. Aida (1871) File:Set design by Philippe Chaperon for Act4 sc2 of Aida by Verdi 1880 Paris.jpg et al.
  27. Otello (1887) - Gallica has some stuff.
  28. Falstaff (1893) File:Ettore Tito -The Production of Verdi's Falstaff at Milan - Falstaff Concealed in the Buck-Basket in Ford's House original scan.png (unrestored)