Luisa Miller: Melodramma tragico in Three Acts by Salvadore Cammaran, The Piano-Vocal Score (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi: Piano-Vocal Scores)

Verdi's work with the Teatro San Carlo of Naples stumbled when he elected to giveLa battaglia di Legnanoto another theater--an annulment of contract to which the Teatro San Carlo responded by threatening to have librettist Salvatore Cammarano thrown in jail. Verdi provided a new opera instead, entering into a dense correspondence with Cammarano to develop, in Verdi's words, "a short drama with plenty of interest, plenty of action, and a huge amount of passion." Cammarano turned to Friedrich Schiller'sKabale und Liebe(Intrigue and Love) to develop a bourgeois tragedy calledLuisa Miller, which opened at the Teatro San Carlo on December 8, 1849. This volume presents Jeffrey Kallberg's critical edition of the autograph score, reconstructed from the smallest details to the recovery, where possible, of original versions (included in the Appendix): the original version of Luisa'scantabileand the alteration to the instrumental parts of the chorus "Quale un sorriso d'amica sorte." An historical introduction draws on Verdi and Cammarano's well-documented correspondence to lend additional context to the opera.Giuseppe Verdi is the author of 'Luisa Miller: Melodramma tragico in Three Acts by Salvadore Cammaran, The Piano-Vocal Score (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi: Piano-Vocal Scores)', published 2004 under ISBN 9788875926977 and ISBN 8875926972.