Author: Giuseppe Verdi

Aida is, for most of us, the quintessence of Ancient Egypt but it is certainly not just for archaeologists. Michael Rose points out that it is real...

La Traviata was Giuseppe Verdis eighteenth opera and shows him at the height of his middle-period powers. Adapted from La Dame aux Camelias by Alex...

In this guide, Julian Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and how, in some previously unpub...

This edition of Messa da Requiem is based on Verdi's autograph score and other authentic sources. The appendixes include two pieces from the compos...

Verdis Simon Boccanegra exists in two versions: that of the 1857 original and that of the 1881 revision. The texts of the libretto of both versions...

Verdis War and Peace, writes Peter Conrad of this epic opera composed in 1862. It encompasses the extremes of a religious and secular existence th...

A lyric comedy unlike any other, wrote Verdi about his last opera. That the last work of a composer who was almost notorious for his preference for...

Verdi''s Attila , his ninth opera, had its premiere at Venice''s Teatro La Fenice in March 1846. Based on the German play Attila, King of the Huns...

It used to be thought that Verdi miscalculated with this attempt at a grand opera in the French style. This guide demonstrates that Don Carlos was ...

'See how the drama is turned into laughter,' comment the chorus, as they witness the destruction of a marriage and a friendship. Here Pierluigi Pet...

Aonia edizioni. Aida e un''opera in quattro atti di Giuseppe Verdi, su libretto di Antonio Ghislanzoni, basata su un soggetto originale di Auguste ...

La traviata e un''opera in tre atti di Giuseppe Verdi su libretto di Francesco Maria Piave, tratto dalla piece teatrale di Alexandre Dumas (figlio)...

Verdi came to Shakespeare through Italian translation and had never seen Macbeth on stage when he wrote his first version of the opera in 1847. Gio...