The main source for this critical edition is the autograph score. As many know Verdi’s usual working method was to begin with a general sketch of the ...

I due Foscari, Verdi’s sixth opera and his second on a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, was first performed in Rome at the Teatro Argentina on 3 Nov...

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A table in the critical account illustrates deviations from the main source. Meyerbeer’s original performance indications in French and Italian remain...

The score was thought to be lost in the second world war. An unknown manuscript copy made in the early 20th Century from Meyerbeer’s autograph in Berl...

La cambiale di matrimonio (The Marriage Contract) was Rossini’s first staged work, and enjoys a special place in the compendium of operas composed by ...

L’italiana in Algeri went on stage for the first time at the Teatro di San Benedetto in Venice on 22 May 1813. On various subsequent occasions (Vicenz...

L’occasione fa il ladro is the fourth of the five farse composed by Rossini in Venice between 1810 and 1813; the opera went on stage at the Teatro di ...

Il signor Bruschino is the last of the five farse composed by Rossini in Venice between 1810 and 1813; the opera went on stage at the Teatro di San Mo...

The critical edition of Torvaldo e Dorliska is the first complete printed score of the opera. It provides as the base text of the opera the version th...