Exact translations and corresponding original texts of the librettos for Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Un Ballo in Maschero, Aida, Otello, and Falstaff, representing major achievements of each of Verdi's significant creative periods[...]

A dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In "Verdi's Shakespeare, " Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Garry Wills explores the writing and staging of Verdi's three triumphant Shakespearian operas: "Macbeth, Othello, "[...]

In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done much to promote, and demonstrating t[...]

Each entry in the New Grove Guides series of composers and their operas is based on articles in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, that feature information on the lives of individual composers, their works, their librettists and interpreters, and the places where they performed. These unique books c[...]

The first part of a three-volume survey of the operas of Verdi, this study traces the growth and development of the composer's style from 1839-1851. It examines each opera in detail, with an account of its dramatic and historical origins and a critical evaluation.[...]

Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857 - from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, La traviata, and Arold[...]

Complete, unabridged orchestral score of immensely popular, often recorded work. One of Verdi's finest compositions -- called by some his greatest opera -- the "Requiem" is scored for 4 solo voices (soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, bass), chorus, and orchestra. New translations of German frontmatter, [...]