| # | Title | Libretist | Act, Language | Premiere details | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Oberto | Antonio Piazza | Two acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, November 17, 1839 | |
| 2 | Un giorno di regno | Felice Romani | Two acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, September 5, 1840 | |
| 3 | Nabucco | Temistocle Solera | Four acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 9, 1842 | |
| 4 | I Lombardi alla prima crociata | Temistocle Solera | Four acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 11, 1843 | |
| 5 | Ernani | Francesco Maria Piave | Four acts, Italian | Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 9, 1844 | |
| 6 | I due Foscari | Francesco Maria Piave | Three acts, Italian | Teatro Argentina, Rome, November 3, 1844 | |
| 7 | Giovanna d'Arco | Temistocle Solera | Three acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 15, 1845 | |
| 8 | Alzira | Salvatore Cammarano | Two acts, Italian | Teatro San Carlo, Naples, August 12, 1845 | |
| 9 | Attila | Temistocle Solera | Three acts, Italian | Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 17, 1846 | |
| 10 | Macbeth | Francesco Maria Piave | Four acts, Italian | Teatro della Pergola, Florence, March 14, 1847 | |
| 11 | I masnadieri | Andrea Maffei | Four acts, Italian | Her Majesty's Theatre, London, July 22, 1847 | |
| 12 | Jérusalem | Alphonse Royer, Gustave Vaëz | Four acts, French | Paris Opéra, Paris, November 26, 1847 | French version of I Lombardi alla prima crociata |
| 13 | Il corsaro | Francesco Maria Piave | Three acts, Italian | Teatro Grande, Trieste, 25 October, 1848 | |
| 14 | La battaglia di Legnano | Salvatore Cammarano | Four acts, Italian | Teatro Argentina, Rome, January 27, 1849 | |
| 15 | Luisa Miller | Salvatore Cammarano | Three acts, Italian | Teatro San Carlo, Naples, December 8, 1849 | |
| 16 | Stiffelio | Francesco Maria Piave | Three acts, Italian | Teatro Grande, Trieste, November 16, 1850 | |
| 17 | Rigoletto | Francesco Maria Piave | Three acts, Italian | Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 11, 1851 | |
| 18 | Il trovatore | Leone Emanuele Bardare, Salvatore Cammarano | Four acts, Italian | Teatro Apollo, Rome, January 19, 1853 | |
| 19 | La traviata | Francesco Maria Piave | Three acts, Italian | Teatro la Fenice, Venice, March 6, 1853 | |
| 20 | Les vêpres siciliennes | Charles Duveyrier, Eugène Scribe | Five acts, French | Paris Opéra, Paris, June 13, 1855 | |
| 21 | Giovanna de Guzman | Eugenio Caimi | Five acts, Italian | Teatro Regio, Parma, December 26, 1855 | Italian version of Les vêpres siciliennes |
| 22 | Le trouvère | Leone Emanuele Bardare, Salvatore Cammarano | Four acts, Italian | Paris Opéra, Paris, 1857 | Revised version of Il trovatore with a ballet added |
| 23 | Simon Boccanegra | Francesco Maria Piave | Three acts, Italian | Teatro La Fenice, Venice, March 12, 1857 | |
| 24 | Aroldo | Francesco Maria Piave | Four acts, Italian | Teatro Nuovo, Rimini, August 16, 1857 | Revision of Stiffelio |
| 25 | Un ballo in maschera | Antonio Somma | Three acts, Italian | Teatro Apollo, Rome, February 17, 1859 | |
| 26 | La forza del destino | Francesco Maria Piave | Four acts, Italian | Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre, Saint Petersburg, November 10, 1862 | |
| 27 | Macbeth | Francesco Maria Piave | Four acts, Italian | Théâtre Lyrique, Paris, April 21, 1865 | Revised version |
| 28 | Don Carlos | Camille du Locle, Joseph Méry | Five acts, French | Paris Opéra, Paris, March 11, 1867 | |
| 29 | La forza del destino | Francesco Maria Piave | Four acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 27, 1869 | Revised version with text addition by Antonio Ghislanzoni |
| 30 | Aida | Antonio Ghislanzoni | Four acts, Italian | Khedivial Opera House, Cairo, December 24, 1871 | |
| 31 | Don Carlo | Camille du Locle, Joseph Méry | Five acts, Italian | Teatro San Carlo, Naples, 1872 | First revision of Don Carlos, translated by Achille de Lauzières, with additions by Antonio Ghislanzoni |
| 32 | Simon Boccanegra | Francesco Maria Piave | Three acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, March 24, 1881 | Revised version with text changes by Arrigo Boito |
| 33 | La force du destin | Francesco Maria Piave | Four acts, French | Antwerp, March 14, 1881 | Revised version of La forza del destino translated by Charles Nuitter and Camille du Locle |
| 34 | Don Carlo | Camille du Locle, Joseph Méry | Four acts, French | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, January 10, 1884 | Second revision of Don Carlos with Camille du Locle and Charles Nuitter. Omitted act 1 and the ballet. |
| 35 | Don Carlo | Camille du Locle, Joseph Méry | Five acts, Italian | Teatro Municipale, Modena, December 29, 1886 | Third revision of Don Carlos with Angelo Zanardini (Fontainebleau scene) |
| 36 | Otello | Arrigo Boito | Four acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 5, 1887 | |
| 37 | Falstaff | Arrigo Boito | Three acts, Italian | Teatro alla Scala, Milan, February 9, 1893 | |