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<div class="image-info__caption"><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Verdi">Giuseppe Verdi</a>'s <em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_forza_del_destino">La forza del destino</a>.</em></p></div> <div class="image-info__credit"><p>Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="hidden"> <div class="2051976387" id="2051976387"> <div class="media-image has-image-info"> <div class="media-image__image"> <picture> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/featured_image_page/public/2018-06/Alexandre_Charles_Lecocq_-_Giuseppe_Verdi_-_La_forza_del_destino.jpg?h=1ab77882&itok=pKYDO-dq 1x" media="(min-width: 1024px)" type="image/jpeg" width="1200" height="800"/> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/featured_image_page/public/2018-06/Alexandre_Charles_Lecocq_-_Giuseppe_Verdi_-_La_forza_del_destino.jpg?h=1ab77882&itok=pKYDO-dq 1x" media="(min-width: 700px)" type="image/jpeg" width="1200" height="800"/> <source 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class="project__body"> <section class="paragraph paragraph--type-text paragraph--display-mode-default l-section"> <div class="l-section__content "> <div class="field-body-rte"><p>The critical edition of the complete works of Giuseppe Verdi is a joint publication of the University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi in Milan, which aims to make available to scholars, students, and performers, reliable editions of Verdi's music that are both faithful to the sources and suitable for performance. The works included in the project are at the core of the nineteenth-century operatic repertory, from <em>Rigoletto</em>, <em>Trovatore</em>, and <em>La traviata</em>, to <em>Un ballo in maschera</em>, <em>Otello </em>and <em>Falstaff</em>.</p></div> </div> </section> </div> <div class="project__actions"> <div class="project__actions-item"> <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/sites/verdi/index.html" class="button button--tertiary button--small" >View Project</a> </div> <div class="project__actions-item"> <a href="https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?q=1&a=0&n=0&o=1&ov=University%20of%20Chicago&ot=0&k=1&kv=Giuseppe%20Verdi&kj=or&w=0&f=0&s=0&cd=0&p=1&pv=193&d=1&dv=6&y=0&prd=0&cov=0&prz=0&wp=0&ob=year&or=DESC" class="project__details-link">NEH Award Details</a> </div> </div> </div> <aside class="l-right-sidebar__sidebar"> <div class="stickykit-container"> <section class="l-section l-section--small-title l-section--underlined-title"> <h3 class=" l-section__title">Explore 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