The critical edition of Donizetti's operas is slowly being achieved but many operas have still to be done but, in some cases, there are good modern editions. These are listed below together with scores for some non operatic works.

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

Anders Wiklund, ed.,  Maria Stuarda.

Ilaria Narici, ed. Il campanello.

Rebecca Harris Warrick, ed.   La Favorite.

William Ashbrook and Roger Parker, eds. Poliuto.

Roger Parker and Anders Wiklund, eds.  Le convenienze ed inconvenienze teatrali.

Mary Ann Smart,ed. Dom Sébastien.

Gabriele Dotto, ed. Linda di Chamounix

Paolo Rossini, ed. with Francesco Bellotto, Rita

Giorgio Paganone, ed. Pia de'Tolomei.

Available for hire for performance

Ellen Lockhart and Julia Lockhart, eds., Betly.

Luca Zoppelli, ed. Maria di Rohan.

Roger Parker, ed. Adelia

Gabriele Dotto and Roger Parker, eds. Lucia di Lammermoor.

Others in preparation

Claudio Toscani, ed. La Fille du régiment / La figlia del reggimento

Paolo Fabbri,ed. Anna Bolena

Roger Parker, ed. Lucrezia Borgia

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.

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

More information on the score and parts of the performing version of Belisario by Ottavio Sbragia  was available at http://www.sbragia.info   but the site no longer seems to be working.

There are a number of sites for tracing old scores, some of which can be downloaded free of charge.  They include http://www.michael-culture.org/en/home, http://www.bibliotecadigitaleitaliana.it/genera.jsp  and http://www.internetculturale.it/moduli/digi/digi.jsp .

Librettos

Librettos, usually in the original language, can be found at

http://www.italianopera.org/compositori/D/c217901.htm includes all the librettos of Donizetti's operas but it is a very confused site to navigate as the search does not work properly.  Unfortunately you need to work through the pages, which list the operas in alphabetical order, until you find the opera of interest.

http://wwwsys.informatik.fh-wiesbaden.de/weber1/opera/libretto.htm includes some pointers but most are to http://www.karadar.com , which, since changing their website, are no longer displaying librettos.

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") .

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

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