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...
The critical edition of Adina (1818) constitutes an absolute novelty with regard to this Rossini opera. The only previous edition (Florence, OTOS, 196...
Casa Ricordi, together with Fondazione Rossini in Pesaro, has published a new critical edition of The Barber of Seville. Based on the now historical e...
This Edition is a first critical survey of Mefistofele in the version performed in Bologna in 1875. The autograph, preserved at the Archivio Storico...
As part of the project dedicated to revising Gioachino Rossini’s complete works, the foundation that bears the composer’s name has decided to publish ...
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