Seven Verdi Librettos
- ISBN-10
- 0393008525
- ISBN-13
- 9780393008524
- Category
- Operas
- Pages
- 533
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1977
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Giuseppe Verdi
Description
Verdi, like most great opera composers, attached supreme importance to the words he was setting to music.
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