The Operas of Gaetano Donizetti
Published by Casa Ricordi with the collaboration and contribution of Fondazione Donizetti, Bergamo
General editors:
Gabriele Dotto, Roger Parker
Full score with critical commentary included:
hardbound volumes, 26 x 36,5 cm (Historical Introduction and critical commentary in Italian and English)
Piano vocal score:
paper bound, 20 x 27 cm (Historical Introduction and critical commentary in Italian and English)
The musical and literary texts of many of Donizetti’s operas, as they have come down to us, pose numerous problems. These are due in part to the inevitable accumulation of layers of changes made by generation after generation of interpreters, whose tastes were ever further from the musical and dramatic aesthetics of Donizetti’s times. Changes, often made with the best of intentions, were motivated in some cases by the urge to modernize the orchestration, the phrasing or even the structure of some pieces; in other cases by the demands of local censorship or by the need to shorten the works or otherwise alter the structure for pragmatic reasons. Sometimes interpolations of extraneous material where made to accommodate the wishes of performers.
In this climate, and in the background of an ever-burgeoning “Donizetti Renaissance” in which almost all of the composer’s nearly seventy operas have been revived in the last forty years, a critical edition was badly needed. For these reasons Casa Ricordi, with the collaboration and contribution of the Comune di Bergamo, began the Donizetti Critical Edition in 1988.
The current project does not aim toward the publication of the complete operas, but rather seeks to offer a wide variety and complexity of Donizetti’s works for the theatre. Operas still in the repertory are of course included, but the series also publishes a selection of lesser-known titles that, for historical or musical reasons, are particularly significant for a better understanding of Donizetti’s career and the historical context in which he worked. While Donizetti’s critical edition has exceeded thirty years of activity, many of its scores have become the standard for performance.
Critical Editions available
Anna Bolena
Edited by Paolo Fabbri (2017)
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-LVIII, 1-442 / 443-944
NR 140357
Piano vocal score available
CP 140360
Betly
Edited by Ellen and Julia Lockart (2011)
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-XXXII, 1-294 / 295-614
NR 139909
Piano vocal score available
CP 139911
Il campanello
Edited by Ilaria Narici (1994)
One-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-XXXII, 1-318
NR 136116
Piano vocal score available
CP 136119
Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali
Edited by Roger Parker, Anders Wiklund (2002)
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-XXXII, 1-419 / 421-669
NR 136792
Piano vocal score available
CP 136795
Deux hommes et une femme (Rita)
Edited by Paolo A. Rossini with the collaboration of Francesco Bellotto (2008)
One-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-XXXVII, 1-340
NR 138368
Piano vocal score available
CP 138370
Dom Sébastien
Edited by Mary Ann Smart (2004)
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-XXXVIII, 1-490 / 491-965
NR 136543
Piano vocal score available
CP 136546
La Favorite
Edited by Rebecca Harris-Warrick (1997)
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-L, 1-462 / 463-903
NR 135544
Piano vocal score available
CP 135547
La fille du régiment
Edited by Claudio Toscani (2021)
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-LII, 1-356 / I-VII, 357-658
NR 140147
Piano vocal score available
CP 140150
Linda di Chamounix
Edited by Gabriele Dotto (2006)
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-LVIII, 1-318 / 319-845
NR 139210
Piano vocal score available
CP 139213
Lucia di Lammermoor
Edited by Roger Parker and Gabriele Dotto (2021)
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary
NR 138000
Lucrezia Borgia
Edited by Roger Parker and Rosie Ward
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-LXXXIV, 1-344 / 345
NR 141613
Piano vocal score available
CP 141616
Maria di Rohan
Edited by Luca Zoppelli
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-LI, 1-362 / 363-741
NR 137533
Piano vocal score available
CP 137536
Maria Stuarda
Edited by Anders Wiklund
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-XXXV, 1-370 / 371-780
NR 134913
Piano vocal score available
CP 134916
Les Martyrs
Edited by Flora Wilson
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-XLVI, 1-496 / 497-916
NR 140672
Piano vocal score available
CP 140675
Pia de’ Tolomei
Edited by Giorgio Pagannone
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-XLI, 1-313 / 314-898
NR 138861
Piano vocal score available
CP 138864
Poliuto
Edited by William Ashbrook, Roger Parker
Two-volume set: score + critical commentary pp. I-XXVII, 1-397 / 399-633
NR 135658
Piano vocal score available
CP 135661
In preparation
Adelia
Don Pasquale
La figlia del reggimento
Parisina