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Author Giuseppe Verdi
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Rigoletto - Vocal Score
Remarkable for its bold characterisation, colour, atmosphere, and a plot unsurpassed for superb drama, Verdi’s opera Rigoletto was an immediate success at its premiere in Venice in 1851 Today it remains…
Macbeth - English National Opera Guide 41 (includes libretto)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretto from Macbeth is included in both the original language…
The Masked Ball - English National Opera Guide 40 (includes libretto)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretto from The Masked Ball is included in both the original…
Simon Boccanegra - English National Opera Guide 32 (includes libretto)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretto from Simon Boccanegra is included in both the original…
Rigoletto - English National Opera Guide 15 (includes libretto)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretto from The Flying Dutchman is included in both the original…
Falstaff - English National Opera Guide 10 (includes libretto)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretto from Falstaff is included in both the original language…
Otello - English National Opera Guide 7 (includes libretto)
The opera is described in detail - with many articles that cover its history and information about the composer and his times The complete libretto from Otello is included in both the original language…
La Forza del Destino - English National Opera Guide 23 (includes libretto)
Verdi’s War and Peace, writes Peter Conrad of this epic opera composed for St. Petersburg in 1862. It encompasses the extremes of a religious and secular existence - the worlds of the lovers pursued by…
Il Trovatore - English National Opera Guide 20 (includes libretto)
‘If I were not afraid of being called Utopian, I should be tempted to say that to reach perfection in a musical work a single mind should create the verses and the music’ - not Wagner, but Cammarano to…
La Traviata - English National Opera Guide 5 (includes libretto)
In this Guide, Julian Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and how, in some previously unpublished letters, Verdi fought their views on casting the…
Rigoletto - Libretto
The libretto for Giuseppe Verdi’s Rigoletto was adapted by Francesco Maria Piave from Victor Hugo’s play Le Roi s’amuse which was so controversial it had been banned in Paris after one…
