Stiffelio: Dramma Lirico in Three Acts by Francesco Maria Piave, the Piano-Vocal Score

by Giuseppe Verdi, Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell (Editor)

The critical edition of Stiffelio from which this score is derived was the first to reinstate significant portions of the opera that had been presumed lost for more than a century. It was used for the 1993 premiere of Stiffelio at New York's Metropolitan Opera, the first time the opera was performed as Verdi wrote it. This piano-vocal score gives musicians and admirers of Verdi the chance to possess Stiffelio in authoritative form.

360 pages, Paperback

First published July 20, 2003

About the author

Fullest artistic form of operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, included La Traviata in 1853, Aïda in 1871, and Otello in 1887; people credit him with raising the genre.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, mainly a Romantic, most influenced the 19th century. Houses frequently perform his works throughout the world, and some themes transcended the boundaries of the genre and long took root in popular culture:
* "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto
* "Va, pensiero" (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco , and
* "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (The Drinking Song).

Masterworks of Giuseppe Verdi used a generally diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom, and people sometimes criticized tendency toward melodrama, which dominates the standard repertoire a century and a half.