Il Barbiere Di Siviglia

Fondazione Rossini Pesaro

2009

4 vol. (2-vol. score: XLIX, 953 p. + 2-vol. critical comment.: 146, 229 p.)

Edizione critica delle opere di Gioachino Rossini. Sezione prima, Opere teatrali ; 17

Ricordi, together with Fondazione Rossini in Pesaro, has published a new critical edition of The Barber of Seville. Based on the now historical edition by Alberto Zedda, this modern edition – the work of the same scholar - has been entirely revised and updated both in the light of the discovery of new, unpublished sources and in line with the philological criteria that have developed over the course of the last forty years. The original critical edition of the Barber was published by Ricordi in 1968. Alberto Zedda had put forward a series of criticisms of Ricordi’s traditional score and he convinced the publishers to invest in a new edition of the opera based on Rossini’s original manuscript as well as a number of other sources, still considered today to be fundamental. They are: the New York Public Library’s manuscript copy, the copies originating from the copyist Cencetti, now held in the Library Media Centre of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, in the Biblioteca Palatina in Parma and in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; the Naples and Florence copies, the principle printed scores and reductions of the era, the first printed libretto and the various manuscript copies of Aureliano in Palmira, the opera in which Zedda recognised the source for the overture of the Barber.

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