(Vocal). Cantolopera is an exceptional new series of book/CD packs from Ricordi that offers a fresh approach to great opera repertoire. The books include versions for voice and piano of the world's most famous arias. The CDs feature two versions of each aria: one with a 130-piece orchestra providing[...]

(Amadeus). An idealistic artist, a celebrated opera singer, and a corrupt police chief engage in a fierce battle of wills in this tempestuous tale of passion, intrigue, cruelty, and deception. Puccini's great melodrama may be set in 1800, amid the Napoleonic wars, but the conflicts between love and [...]

(Opera). Ricordi is proud to present the first titles in their new series of orchestral scores featuring engaging images (from Casa Ricordi's historical archives) and synopses in Italian, English, French and German. In addition, these scores feature heavier cover and paper stock plus stronger bindin[...]

(Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Martin. This revised edition features a new cover design and introductory plot synopsis in English.[...]

Puccini's operas are among the most popular and widely performed in the world, yet few books have examined his body of work from an analytical perspective. This volume remedies that lack in lively prose accessible to scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.[...]

One of the greatest favorites of the Italian operatic repertoire, whose productions at London's Covent Garden in 1905 (featuring Enrico Caruso, among other luminaries of the day) and New York's Metropolitan Opera the following year first brought it fame. Reprinted complete and unabridged from the au[...]

Sparkling staple of the repertoire, widely regarded as Puccini's most nearly perfect opera, offers an irresistible blend of gaiety and pathos that has enchanted audiences for over a century. Attractive, inexpensive new edition contains complete music for voice with piano reduction of orchestral part[...]

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) began his career at the end of the Romantic period and his death signaled the end of the last major age of Italian opera. During his lifetime and in posterity, the composer's popularity surpassed that of his peers, and three of his works -- La boheme, Tosca, and Madama B[...]

This book is intended primarily as a guide for the opera goer. It includes a synopsis of the plot, with indications of the themes and motifs used in it, and discusses the style of the opera, Tosca being a typical example of Italian naturalism in operas, verismo. It compares Puccini’s libretto [...]

(Instrumental Play-Along). Who needs a singer? With Play Puccini, instrumentalists can bathe themselves in luxurious Italian melody These ten opera arias are among the composer's most famous and distinctive achievements, here transcribed for intermediate level solo instrument and piano. The book in[...]

(Opera). This famous trilogy of Puccini one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, now appears in one complete opera vocal score.[...]