Verdi to adapt Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet? From the archive, 30 November 1893

Perhaps no play of Shakespeare has been the theme of so many musical compositions as the story of the Veronese loversShakespeare has long been a prolific quarry for the writers of opera librettos, and inasmuch as the fact of one composer having already written a lyric drama on a given play does not prevent another from selecting the same, we see no reason why our great poet's dramas should not prove an inexhaustible resource for the librettists and arrangers.Because Rossini had composed "Otello,...

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