The Works of    Le Opere di    Giuseppe Verdi


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book coverUn giorno di regno Edited by Francesco Izzo
854 pages | 6 halftones, 100 musical examples, 6 tables | 10½×14½ | ©2021

This critical edition, based on Verdi’s autograph manuscript, offers the first publication of the opera in full score. Editor Francesco Izzo contextualizes Un giorno di regno in his introductory discussion of the work’s origins, sources, and performances. In addition, appendices provide alternative musical readings and reconstruct lost versions of segments of the musical numbers, while the critical commentary explores editorial problems and answers.

 

About the Series 

The Works of Giuseppe Verdi (WGV) is a joint publication of the University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi. Established in the mid-1970s under the early leadership of Philip Gossett, in cooperation with Verdi scholars Julian Budden, Martin Chusid, Francesco Degrada, Ursula Günther, and Giorgio Pestelli, it is the first critical edition of the composer’s oeuvre and upon completion will include his songs, choral music and sacred pieces, string quartet and other instrumental works, as well as the operas. Since its inception, WGV has aimed to make available editions that are rigorously faithful to authentic sources and eminently suitable for performance. In addition to the full score, each publication includes a separately bound critical commentary that gives an account of the source research underpinning the edition, along with page-by-page critical notes to accompany the score. Piano-vocal reductions of the operas are also made available, as well as orchestral and choral parts prepared for rental by our partners at Casa Ricordi.

WGV, which is a bilingual publication in English and Italian, follows a comprehensive set of editorial principles designed to give uniformity and consistency throughout the series. These principles, set out in abbreviated form in the general preface to each volume, explain as well the typographical distinctions employed to enable readers to differentiate easily Verdi’s actual markings from those extended by analogy with similar passages in the score, those derived from secondary sources, and those added by the volume editor.

 

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Philip Gossett, 1941—2017
Founding General Editor

Francesco Izzo,
General Editor

Roberta Montemorra Marvin,
Associate General Editor

Marta Tonegutti,
Managing Editor

Fabrizio Della Seta
Gabriele Dotto
Andreas Giger
Helen Greenwald
Kathleen Kuzmick Hansell
David Lawton
Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Giorgio Pestelli
David Rosen
Emilio Sala
Julian Budden
Martin Chusid
Francesco Degrada
Ursula Günther
Pierluigi Petrobelli