for SATB and piano or orchestra This chorus also appears in the anthology Opera Choruses. Orchestral material is available on hire

for SATB and piano or orchestra This chorus also appears in the anthology Opera Choruses. Orchestral material is available on hire

(Vocal Score). Italian Only Cloth Score.

The Black Dog Opera Library is the best, easiest and most informative and budget-friendly way to enjoy four of the greatest operas of all time. Finally available again, and packaged with gorgeous new covers, are four of the most popular operas in the Black Dog Opera Library: Carmen, La Boh?me, La Traviata, and The Marriage of Figaro.Each book in the library includes the complete opera on 2 CDs, featuring world-class performances and orchestras; the complete libretto, plus its English translation; an exciting history of the opera; a biography of the composer; a synopsis of the story, broken down by act and scene; and dozens of photographs and drawings depicting performances, singers, sets, costumes, and more.Carmen features Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers, Mirella Freni, and Kostas Paskalis, with Rafael Fru?beck de Burgos conducting the Orchestra of the Th??tre National de l'Op?ra.La Boh?me features Nicolai Gedda and Mirella Freni, with Thomas Schippers conducting the Orchestro e Coro del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma.La Traviata features Beverly Sills, Nicolai Gedda, and Rolando Panerai, with Aldo Ceccato conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.The Marriage of Figaro features Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Heather Harper, Judith Blegen, Geraint Evans, Teresa Berganza, and Birgit Finnil?, with Daniel Barenboim conducting the English Chamber Orchestra.Listen. Enjoy. Learn.Also available as individual titles.

I due Foscari enjoys pride of place among Verdi's early operas for its commanding music and striking use of recurring themes to identify the principal characters. Here, the young composer can be seen experimenting with new means of musical and dramatic expression. This critical edition, based on Verdi's autograph score and autograph corrections in the first manuscript copy, offers the full score including powerful passages later excised by Roman censors and appendices containing sketches, fragments, rejected passages, and a substitute cabaletta for Jacopo's cavatina. With an introduction and detailed critical commentary, this edition provides performers, conductors, students, and scholars with a superior version of the colorful drama.

Franco Zeffirelli directs this film of Verdi's classic opera. James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus and the lead characters are played by Teresa Stratas, Placido Domingo, Cornell MacNeil and Allan Monk.

The Metropolitan Opera give a live performance of Verdi's work adapted from Victor Hugo's play 'Le roi s'amuse'. In this version, which has been updated to a 1960s Las Vegas setting by director Michael Mayer, Piotr Beczala portrays the philandering Duke with Zeljko Lucic as his sidekick Rigoletto and Diana Damrau as Rigoletto's daughter Gilda, who has been kept a secret by her father and falls for the Duke while unaware of his true identity. Michelle Mariotti conducts the Metropolitan Orchestra.

for SATB and piano or orchestra This chorus also appears in the anthology Opera Choruses. Orchestral material is available on hire

Jose Cura and Dmitri Hvorostovsky lead the star cast of Verdi's blazingly passionate opera, in Elijah Moshinsky's 2002 Royal Opera House production co-produced with Teatro Real Madrid, with sets by the noted Italian film designer Dante Ferretti.

This collection includes twelve popular and lesser-known pieces by Verdi arranged for organ, covering a variety of styles and moods, and serving both church and concert organists.

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 binding.

A filmed version of a performance of Verdi's Macbeth in Belgium in 1987, featuring conductor Ricardo Chailly and the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Communale di Bologna. Mezzo-soprano Shirley Verrett and Baritone Leo Nucci perform the leading roles.

'La Traviata' was Giuseppe Verdi's eighteenth opera and shows him at the height of his middle-period powers. Adapted from 'La Dame aux Camelias' by Alexandre Dumas fils, it portrays the love between the courtesan Violetta Valery and the young Alfredo Germont in fashionable Parisian society, with its inevitable tragic outcome. It had its premiere at La Fenice in Venice in 1853 and has gone on to become one of the most performed and greatly loved of all operas. There are articles in the guide about Verdi's preparations for the first performances, a musical commentary, an overview of the opera's social background and an examination of how the libretto was adapted from Dumas's play. Also included are a survey of important performances and performers, sixteen pages of illustrations, a musical thematic guide, the full libretto and English translation, a discography, bibliography and DVD and website guides.

Stefan Blunier conducts this live concert by the Beethoven Orchester Bonn and the Opernchor des Theater Bonn at Opernhaus Bonn in 2016. Works featured in the gala concert include 'Arie Der Juliette Je Jeux Vivre' from Gounod's 'Romeo et Juliette', 'Arie Des Figaro Largo Al Factotum' from Rossini's 'Barbier Von Sevilla' and 'Arie Der Eboli O Don Fatale' from Verdi's 'Don Carlos'.