Eduardo e Cristina was long considered nothing more than a pasticcio of pre-existing music assembled by Rossini in the spring of 1819, with the sole a...

Gioachino Rossini’s Messa di Ravenna – as this work has been known for several decades – is a fascinating example of early 19th-century Italian sacred...

Un ballo in maschera, like other Verdi titles, encountered numerous difficulties during its gestation due to the problems raised by censorship. The di...

Caterina Cornaro was the last of Donizetti’s revised melodramas to debut during composer’s lifetime. From what we’ve been able to reconstruct, a host ...

This edition offers a critical reading, based on the original sources, of Verdi’s Vêpres siciliennes, with the aim of restoring the poetic and musical...

The edition of Il corsaro, in common with almost all titles in the Verdi Critical Edition, uses as its principal source the composer’s autograph full ...

Attila, Verdi’s ninth opera and the second of fi ve he composed for the Gran Teatro La Fenice, had its premiere on 17 March 1846. Its genesis spans a ...

Why a new edition of Luisa Miller? Part of the answer lies in the circumstances of the opera’s genesis, Fittingly, Verdi’s decision to compose Luisa M...

Verdi’s eleventh opera, I masnadieri was the first he composed expressly for a foreign theater. The result of a joint commission from the Milanese pub...

La donna del lago, the eighth of the ten opere serie Rossini wrote for Naples between 1815 and 1822, was performed for the first time at the Teatro Sa...