1850 operas

opera by Richard Wagner

Stiffelio is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, from an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. The origin of this was the novel Le pasteur d’hommes, by Émile Souvestre, which was published in 1838. This was adapted into the French play ''Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer by Souvestre together with Eugène Bourgeois. (Its premiere was on 10 February 1849 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in Paris.) That play was in turn translated into Italian by Gaetano Vestri as Stifellius''; this formed the basis of Piave's libretto.

thumb|right|The composer in an 1850 daguerreotype

opera by Luigi Ricci and Federico Ricci

opera by Ambroise Thomas