Ricordi Vocal Score Series

The present volume contains all three settings by Vivaldi of the Marian antiphon Salve Regina that have come down to us. All three are for solo voice: soprano in the case of RV 617, and contralto in t...

Giustino was composed by Vivaldi in 1724 as the second carnival opera for the Teatro Capranica in Rome. It shows the composer on the verge of modernising his style while summing up the most individual...

The present reduction derives from the critical edition of the score, published in this catalog in November 2019. Antonio Vivaldi's La Dorilla, a heroic-pastoral opera on a libretto by Antonio Maria L...

Some few months after returning to Naples from Rome, where he had gone to follow the premiere of L'Olimpiade at the Teatro Tordinona during the 1735 carnival season, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi -- not...

Gaetano Donizetti’s Roberto Devereux, written to a libretto by Salvadore Cammarano, was first performed at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples on 29 October 1837. Although it largely disappeared from th...

Caterina Cornaro was the last of Donizetti’s revised melodramas to debut during composer’s lifetime. From what we’ve been able to reconstruct, a host of anomalies regarding the work’s ontogeny come to...

Critical Edition.

The present reduction derives from the critical edition of the score published in this catalog in 2002 (PR 1362). Although it is not possible to establish with certainty the time and the occasion for...

Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia was premiered at Milan's Teatro alla Scala on 26 December 1833 and is considered one of the composer's most important and innovative operas of the 1830s. Although, because...