The critical edition of Donizetti's operas is slowly being achieved but where operas have not been yet edited there are often good modern editions from other sources. Many are listed below together with scores for some non operatic works. The Fondazione Donizetti have an extensive (but not completely comprehensive) list of who owns what editions at http://www.donizetti.org/media/1/20070725-Proprietari.pdf .

Critical editions of Donizetti's operas

The creation of the Edizione critica  delle opere di Gaetano Donizetti is now underway under the general editorship of Gabriele Dotto and Roger Parker but their publication is proving quite a lengthy process.  The current status is given below.    They are published by Ricordi and are in Italian and English with separately available full and vocal scores.

Available

Available for hire for performance

In preparation

Donizetti Society editions of Donizetti operas

The Donizetti Society is able to offer the score and parts for L'esule di Roma, edited by Ian Schofield. Email the Donizetti Society chairman, Alexander Weatherson  ( Alexdonsoc@aol.com ) or  info@donizettisociety.com for details. The vocal score includes the "prison scene" that was missing from the previous edition.

Fondazione Donizetti editions of Donizetti operas

The Fondazione Donizetti  can provide scores of  Don Gregorio, Marino Faliero,  Parisina and Pietro il Grande edited by Maria Chiara Bertieri and of Gemma di Vergy edited by Livio Aragona. The Fondazione also have an extensive list of who owns what editions at http://www.donizetti.org/media/1/20070725-Proprietari.pdf .

Opera Rara editions of Donizetti operas

Opera Rara have usually produced their own editions for the operas they record.  These editions may be hired from Edition Peters in New York.

Other editions of Donizetti operas

Otos (search on Donizetti) offer vocal scores of Betly, Don Sebastiano,  Le Convenienze Teatrali,  Il Furioso all'isola di San Domingo,  I Pazzi per Progetto,  Il Giovedì Grasso,   Olivo e Pasquale and  Parisina d’Este.  Also the cantata Cristoforo  Colombo.

Casa Musicale Sonzogno offers Il diluvio universale, Il fortunato inganno and La zingara

A performing version score and parts of Belisario was created by Ottavio Sbragia  and used by the A.J. Fletcher Institute and North Carolina School of Arts in their 2005 production, see www.sbragia.info or email belisario_edition@sbragia.info.

When Buenos Aires Lirica produced Belisario  in 2010, Juan Casasbellas created a reduced score of the opera, which is now available for hire.  More details on the score here.

A score of Le Duc d'Albe (in French) is in preparation by Professor Roger Parker for performance by Vlaamse Opera in 2012.

There are a number of sites for tracing or buying old editions of scores and some can be downloaded free of charge. They include:-

http://www.michael-culture.org/en/home

http://www.bibliotecadigitaleitaliana.it/genera.jsp

http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/variations/scores/scores.html

http://www.internetculturale.it/moduli/digi/digi.jsp

http://www.classicalvocalrep.com/ , go to Rare Operas link

http://imslp.org/wiki/Main_Page (click on "composer name" at the top of the page and then on "D" and finally on "Donizetti").

Librettos

Librettos of Donizetti's operas in Italian can be found at

http://www.italianopera.org/donizetti/opera.html includes the librettos of most of Donizetti's operas.

http://www.librettidopera.it/index.html includes many Donizetti opera librettos.

http://www.operamanager.com/cgi-bin/process.cgi?azione=get_ricerca&tipo=OP, search on Donizetti. Includes a synopsis of each opera but not always a libretto.

The above sites also hold the librettos of many other composers' operas.

Otos (search on Donizetti) offer librettos of Don Sebastiano,  Le Convenienze Teatrali,  I Pazzi per Progetto,  Il Giovedì Grasso,   Olivo e Pasquale and  Parisina d’Este. 

http://opera.stanford.edu/iu/librettim.html includes links to various online libretto sites.

A number of,  usually 19^th , century librettos, some with English or French translations, can be found at www.archive.org .

Opera Rara have started to include librettos and English translations online for works that they are recording as have Dynamic  and probably other companies.

English translations of several of the more well known Donizetti operas (Anna Bolena, Betly, Daughter of the Regiment,  Don Pasquale,  The Elixir of Love,  Lucia di Lammermoor,  Lucrezia Borgia, Maria Padilla, Mary Stuart,  Roberto Devereux and The Tutor in a Tangle (L'Ajo Nell' Imbarazzo)  can be obtained from:- http://www.pocketopera.org/   then click on "LIBRETTI" .

Scores of some of Donizetti's non operatic works

John Stewart Allitt, Iris Dell ' Acqua, Sally Thomas, Ian Caddy, Donizetti's Songs written in the base clef, is a booklet of the texts, translations into English, analyses and comments on the songs.  It is available from UK: Caddy Publishing.  Scores of some of the songs including the cantata Canto d'Ugolino may also be found here.

Scores for G. Donizetti, String Quartets 7, 13, 18, Introduzione per archi and Or che le notte invita (song), available from UK: Caddy Publishing or email info@CaddyPublishing.co.uk

Edition Peters has an extensive collection of  scores of instrumental works of Donizetti  ( search on "Donizetti") as do  Boccaccini & Spada.

Musica Aperta, Bergamo has a good listing of scores of mainly religious works.

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