Incredible as it may seem, the score of Otello was the first opera of Verdi’s to have known the privilege of regular publication. This primogeniture c...
Verdi La forza del destino
114 years after its planned premiere at the Vienna Court Opera, which was cancelled after Gustav Mahler’s resignation, the score of “Der Traumgörge” f...
La rondine is a unique work in Puccini’s operatic output. Commissioned by Vienna’s Carltheater in 1914, it eventually premiered in Monte Carlo due to ...
The critical edition of the Operas of Giacomo Puccini, of which this Tosca is a part, breaks new ground in several areas of its critical approach to ...
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...
Verdi Giovanna dArco
Le trouvère, Verdi’s adaptation for the French stage of his very successful Italian opera Il trovatore, premiered at the Théâtre de l’Opéra in Paris o...
Jérusalem was Giuseppe Verdi’s first Grand opéra. Verdi had received his first invitation to Paris in 1845, but various commitments in Italy prevented...
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