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

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 wrote Rigoletto, his seventeenth opera and one for which he himself had the highest regard, in the aftermath of the widespread European revoluti...

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...

The first performance of Cenerentola took place in Rome at the Teatro Valle on 25 January 1817. Because of the extremely limited time available to com...

Bianca e Falliero, the fifth and last opera Rossini would compose for Milan’s Teatro alla Scala, was premiered there on 26 December 1819 to inaugurate...