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Giuseppe Verdi.
Otello.
Milano, Ricordi, c.2002.
Acquired through the Lucie King Harris Book Fund.
Otello successfully premiered at La Scala in Milan in February 1887. Intending to retire, Verdi had not worked on any opera since Aida (1871), until he began Otello in 1884. Sixteen years separate the premieres of the two works, and in both musical and dramatic terms, Otello is quite different from Verdi's earlier operas. This color facsimile is a limited and numbered edition of the autograph full score, which is preserved in the Archivio storici Ricordi in Milan. In 1894 Otello was performed at the Opéra in Paris. The edition includes the ballet music to Act III, which Verdi added to suit French conventions. Also included are iconographic materials, costume and set designs, and an essay which discusses Verdi's and librettist Arrigo Boito's ideas. |
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