{"title":"Well Tempered Press Opera Vocal Score Library Ludwigmasters Sheet Music","description":"\u003ch2\u003eOpera Vocal Scores with Keyboard Accompaniment\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection features complete opera vocal scores from Well Tempered Press and LudwigMasters, spanning light operettas and serious operas by master composers. Find keyboard-accompanied scores for works including Lehár's The Merry Widow, Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, Verdi's Nabucco, Smetana's The Bartered Bride, and Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur. These vocal scores are ideal for singers, voice teachers, and opera companies preparing performances or studying canonical works across multiple musical traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"nabucco-complete-opera-36-w747691","title":"Nabucco (Complete Opera): Serious Opera, Keyboard Accompaniment, Choral Score","description":"NABUCCO, a retelling of the biblical story of Jewish exile under the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar, was Giuseppe Verdi's (1813-1901) first major operatic success, and was written reluctantly, following a difficult period in the composer's life. Having lost his young wife, Margherita, in the summer of 1840, and seeing his second opera, UN GIORNO DI REGNO, fail disastrously, closing after only a single performance in September 1840, Verdi was left understandably depressed and prepared to give up on music altogether. However, Bartolomeo Merelli, who ran the famed Milan opera house, La Scala, urged Verdi to write another opera. 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The libretto by Cesare Sterbini is based on a three-part series of French comedic plays under the same name by Pierre Beaumarchais, and other composers also borrowed from the source, including Mozart for his Marriage of Figaro, although that opera was based on the second comedy in the series. Rossini's The Barber of Seville uses the first comedy as its source, showing the exploits that Count Almaviva engages in to convince Rosina to love and marry him before her ward Bartolo marries her first, with the barber Figaro conniving to help Almaviva the entire time. Reprint edition. 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