Critical edition of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Un giorno di regno.
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
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- 71142013
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component
- Open access status
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- 2021
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- Yes
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- Within this multi-component piece, the critical edition of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un giorno di regno, edited by Francesco Izzo for The Works of Giuseppe Verdi (ISBN 9780226388786), is forthcoming. The work has long been complete. The publication had been expected by the end of 2020, and the production has been delayed due to the effects of Covid 19 on the publisher's workflow. We include the authors proofs instead.
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- Interdisciplinary
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- The life of Giuseppe Verdi’s Un giorno di regno (1840) currently survives by a thread. Witnesses to its survival are the autograph in the Archivio Storico Ricordi in Milan and early C19th prints of individual numbers. Performances before 2014 have had to rely on inaccurate and incomplete attempts to recreate the work. Unlike all the other compositions in the series ‘Works of Giuseppe Verdi’, this edition of the composer’s Un giorno di regno is the first time that the complete work has appeared in the public domain. The research first assembled all the surviving material: the autograph, printed libretto, printed musical material and ephemera. Much of this material relates to a later (1845) production of the work under the title Il finto Stanislao and has at best a tangential relationship with Verdi’s original 1840 conception. It was immediately apparent that the modern point of contact for the work (Ricordi’s handwritten hire material) was not only missing endless passages that Verdi had revised and replaced but also two entire movements that were omitted by Verdi just before the premiere. The edition’s point of departure was the inclusion of everything that Verdi had written for the 1840 premiere that could be recovered from the autograph, and this is supported by a historical introduction (15,000 words) and the critical commentary (80,000 words). In its draft form, the edition has already served as the basis for productions in Rieti (2014), Martina Franca’s Festival della Valle d’atria (2017) and at the Parma Verdi Festival at Verdi’s own theatre in Busseto (2018). The Martina Franca production has been commercially recorded. The edition was scheduled to appear in the series ‘Works of Giuseppe Verdi’ in late 2020 (ISBN xxx-xxx) in three formats: orchestral score with critical commentary, piano-vocal score and study score.
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- Non-English
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