IL TROVATORE FOR THE PIANOFORTE.* This opera ' it will be
remembered, was produced at the Royal Italian Opera at the beginning of the last season, when it served to introduce Madame Ney, the great tragedian and singer, to the acquaintance of the English' public. That lady's long illness, which consumed the greater part of her engagement, interrupted what would otherwise have been a successful run. It was then Verdi's last work; it has already been fol- lowed by. "Lee Vepres Siciliennes," which, we hear, will be produced this season at Covent Garden in an Italian dress. The music of ./1 TrO- Vatore is much superior to that of any of Verdi's previous operas. Like Donizetti, the fashionable coniposer appears to be gradually Germanizing his style, and Writing with increased solidity and real strength ; qualities especially perceptible in the concerted pieces and in the use of the or- chestra. II TrOoatore is well fitted to be arranged for the pianoforte ; and as this has been skilfully and judiciously done by Herr Nordmann, the present publication will afford an agreeable chamber raminisepnce of the beauties of the opera.
Verdi's Opera '17 Trovatore." Edited for the Pianoforte, by Rudolf Nord- mann. Published by Boosey and Sons.
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