The Verdi-Boito Correspondence
Edited by Marcello Conati and Mario Medici
With an Introduction by Marcello Conati
English-language edition prepared by William Weaver
English-language edition prepared by William Weaver
384 pages
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14 halftones, music examples throughout, 6 x 9
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6 x 9
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© 1994
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Preface by William Weaver
Introduction by Marcello Conati
Letters
Appendix
Index
Introduction by Marcello Conati
Letters
Appendix
Index
Review Quotes
Kirkus
“Verdi, who had previously considered librettists good only for translating into verse dramatic outlines he had already created, learned to work with an equal; Boito was a superb poet, passionately devoted to the renewal of the musical theater, who had to be treated as a peer, not a subordinate. The letters, stuffed with fascinating detail, catch the two titans in the process of creating the revised Simon Boccanegra, then Otello and Falstaff; sections of text, structural and musical ideas, even production concepts fly back and forth between Milan and Sant’Agata. . . . A must-have for every music lover’s shelf.”
Publishers Weekly
"Opera lovers will be pleased."
Opera Quarterly
“The letters are engrossing. . . . With or without transition, Verdi and Boito can shift mercurially from discussions of high art to commentary on the mundane. Woven into the fabric of life in nineteenth-century Italy are, among others, threads of politics, medicine, and labor unrest. . . . Fascinating.”
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