Dover Opera Scores: Otello in Full Score (Paperback)

Written in his 74th year and first performed at La Scala in 1887, Otello, Verdi's penultimate opera, is his tragic masterpiece.

Only the comic Falstaff, also adapted from Shakespeare, and also with an inspired libretto by Boito, would follow.

Technically and aesthetically in their mastery of orchestration, harmony, and vocal writing, these final works represent a profound leap forward from the earlier Verdi triumphs, a summation of his brilliant compositional powers.