Books by Giuseppe Verdi

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Aonia edizioni. Aida è un'opera in quattro atti di Giuseppe Verdi, su libretto di Antonio Ghislanzoni, basata su un soggetto originale di Auguste Mariette. Ismail Pascià, kedivé d'Egitto, commissionò un inno a Verdi per celebrare l'apertura del Canale di Suez (1869) nel 1870, pagandolo 80.000 franchi, ma questi rifiutò, dicendo che non scriveva musica d'occasione. Invece quando venne l'invito di comporre un'opera per l'inaugurazione del nuovo teatro del Cairo, accettò. Tuttavia la prima dell'opera fu ritardata a causa della guerra franco-prussiana dato che i costumi e le scene erano a Parigi, sotto assedio. Il teatro del Cairo s'inaugurò invece con Rigoletto. Quando finalmente la prima di Aida ebbe luogo, l'opera ottenne un enorme successo e ancora oggi continua ad essere una delle opere liriche più famose. La prima rappresentazione in assoluto al mondo avvenne quindi al Teatro khediviale dell'Opera del Cairo. (Wik.)

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Based on the composer's autograph and on secondary sources, this edition provides a means for interpretation and study of Verdi's opera "I masnadieri". The commentary discusses ambiguities in the sources while an introduction traces the opera's genesis, sources, performance history and practices.

This critical edition presents the 1854 version as the main score, and also makes available the full score and the original 1853 settings of the revised pieces. For this text Fabrizio della Seta used the composer's autograph and many secondary sources, but also Verdi's previously unknown sketches.

With a glimpse of the daily life of European art and artists during the fertile last decades of the nineteenth century, this book is suitable for anyone passionate about opera.