GIUSEPPE VERDI (b.1813, d.1901): ‘Rigoletto’, opera to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, after Victor Hugo; [1850s]. Italian text. With performance markings in pencil and red and blue crayon: Act III. ff. ii + 118.
Act IV; [1882-1883]. In a French translation by Édouard Duprez. Corresponds to Act III of the Italian version. With the imprint of Gio. Ricordi of Milan in the margins of the paper. The cover bears the imprint both of Gio. Ricordi and of Léon Grus, 31, Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle, Paris. Léon Grus took over the rights to Rigoletto in 1882; Grus moved from 31, Boulevard Bonne-Nouvelle in 1884. See A. Devriès and F. Lesure, Dictionnaire des éditeurs de musique français, vol. 2. (Geneva, 198...
GIUSEPPE VERDI (b.1813, d.1901): ‘Der Troubadour’, opera in 4 acts to a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano with additions by Leone Emanuele Bardare, after Antonio García Gutiérrez, in a German translation by Heinrich Proch; 19th cent: Acts I and II. ff. i + 275.
GIUSEPPE VERDI (b.1813, d.1901): ‘Der Troubadour’, opera in 4 acts to a libretto by Salvatore Cammarano with additions by Leone Emanuele Bardare, after Antonio García Gutiérrez, in a German translation by Heinrich Proch; 19th cent: Acts III and IV. ff. i + 228.