Autor: Fabrizio Della Seta

"I complain bitterly of the editions of my last operas, made with such little care, and filled with an infinite number of errors."-Giuseppe Verdi The University of Chicago Press, in …

Opera often seems to arouse either irrational enthusiasm or visceral dislike. Such madness, as Goethe wrote, is indispensable in all theater, and yet in practice, sentiment and passion must be …