Jordan Barker

Giuseppe Verdi's 'Il Trovatore' was based on a play by Gutierrez, adapted by Salvtor Cammerano. Although the critics may complain about its lack of subtlety - it is filled with exactly the kinds of tw...

Scribe's libretto to Verdi's 'A Masked Ball' concerns the real-life assassination of King Gustave III of Sweden at a masked ball in 1792 but adds a love story to what was probably a political murder....

The libretto for Giuseppe Verdi's 'Rigoletto' was adapted by Francesco Maria Piave from Victor Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse which was so controversial it had been banned in Paris after one performance....

Libretto by Joseph Mery and Camille Du Locle. English alternative by Walter Ducloux.

Giuseppe Verdi was always fascinated by the plays of Shakespeare and wrote three operas based on them. The music for 'Macbeth', whose libretto is by Francesco Maria Piave and Andrea Maffeiis, is drama...

La Forza del Destino' is a product of the rich middle period of Verdi's long creative life, and marks an important development in his style. The entire work is pervaded by a dark, brooding feeling. Ve...

An Opera score composed by Giuseppe Verdi.

Accompaniment: John Wustman, piano - Nineteenth-century Italian composer and national hero Giuseppe Verdi provides the collection of bravura soprano pieces on this album, and John Wustman accompanies...