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In April 1889, audiences at the Teatro alla Scala witnessed the first full-length opera by a young composer who would soon set the musical world on fi...

This volume in The Works of Giuseppe Verdi series comprises his only two surviving secular choral works: Inno popolare, or Hymn of the People, for una...

Alzira, Verdi's eighth opera, received its premiere on 12 August 1845 at the Teatro San Carlo, Naples. It was the first work that this important theat...

La scala di seta is the third of five farces that Rossini wrote for the Teatro San Moisè in Venice between 1810 and 1813. It went on stage on 9th May ...

Armida was first performed in Naples on 11 November 1817, which was followed by only five performances that season and it was not given again in compl...

Il Turco in Italia went on stage for the first time at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 14 August 1814. In the autumn of the following year Rossini w...

The Petite messe solenne/le is an integral and crowning part of Rossini’s last creative period, the musical outcome of which is the collection he enti...