Editing Ernani (section)

==Performance history==
=== 19th century ===
[[File:Antonio Selva-bass.png|upright|thumb|[[Antonio Selva]], the first Silva]]
[[File:Sophie Löwe.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Sophie Löwe]], the first Elvira]]

Budden sums up the opening night success of ''Ernani'': nothing "prevented [the opera] from being a tremendous success. With it, Verdi's fame took a new leap which carried it at once across the boundaries of Italy. For better or worse, he was now a world composer ... [and] wherever there was an Italian opera house, ''Ernani'' arrived sooner or later."<ref name="BUDD3">Budden (1984), p. 146</ref> However, it was not all smooth sailing: due to Hugo's opposition, the first performances in Paris at the [[Théâtre des Italiens]] two years later required a change of title – to ''Il proscritto'' – and a change of characters' names: "The practice was followed in other cities where the names Victor Hugo and ''Hernani'' smacked of revolution."<ref name="BUDD3"/> In Palermo in 1845 it became ''Elvira d'Aragona'' and in Messina in 1847 the title became ''Il proscritto ossia Il corsaro di Venezia''. Overall, ''Ernani'' was staged in one form or another up to the mid-1850s, with "32 theatres [giving] the work in 1844, 60 in 1845, and at least 65 in 1846, not including revivals in houses that had already presented it."<ref>Phillips-Matz 1997, pp. 163–164, referencing Marcello Conati, "''Ernani'' di Verdi; le critiche del tempo" in ''Ernani ieri e oggi''.</ref>

The United Kingdom premiere, the first of Verdi's operas to be translated into English, took place at [[Her Majesty's Theatre]] in London on 8 March 1845 followed on 13 April 1847 by its US premiere in New York City.<ref name="KIMB"/>

=== 20th century and beyond ===
''Ernani'' appeared on the roster of the [[Metropolitan Opera]] as early as 1903 and has been given many times since then. The opera was revived in a series of new productions at the [[San Francisco Opera]] (1982), the Met (1983), the [[Lyric Opera of Chicago]] (1984), and at [[La Scala]] (1984). It was given as part of the 1997 season of the [[Sarasota Opera]]'s "Verdi Cycle". The [[Teatro Regio di Parma]], another company with the aim of presenting every Verdi opera, gave it in October 2005.
<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.teatroregioparma.org/verdifest2005/index.htm |title=Parma's 2005 "Festival Verdi" |access-date=2009-02-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090307141439/http://www.teatroregioparma.org/verdifest2005/index.htm |archive-date=2009-03-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Today ''Ernani'' receives numerous performances at opera houses around the world.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://operabase.com/oplist.cgi?id=none&lang=en&is=Ernani&by=&loc=&stype=abs&sd=1&sm=1&sy=2011&etype=abs&ed=&em=&ey= |title=Operabase |website=operabase.com |access-date=26 March 2018}}</ref>