Jérusalem is a grand opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto was to be an adaptation and partial translation of the composer's original 1843 Italian opera, I Lombardi alla prima crociata. I
"Tancred of Hauteville, the siege of Jerusalem" by Émile Signol
Giuseppina Strepponi (c. 1845) (Museo Teatrale alla Scala)
Adolphe Louis Joseph Alizard as Roger in Jérusalem
I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata is an operatic dramma lirico in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Temistocle Solera, based on an epic poem by Tommaso Grossi, which was "very much a
"The departure of the Lombards for the Crusade"
Temistocle Solera, the librettist of the opera
Title page of an 1843 libretto of I Lombardi