Contents
- 1. Synopsis;
- 2. Creating the libretto: Verdi and Boito in collaboration;
- 3. The composition of the opera;
- 4. Compositional afterthoughts and revisions: Milan, Venice and Paris;
- 5. Of singers and staging: Verdi's ideas on performance;
- 6. A brief performance history William Ashbrook;
- 7. An introduction to the musical organization: the structures of Act II;
- 8. Shakespeare reinterpreted.