Books in the The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, Series 1: Operas series

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.