Stiffelio

Part of Tutto Verdi series Stiffelio 2012 Parma Stiffelio is an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi from an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave The origin of this was the novel Le pasteur dhommes by Émile Souvestre which was published in 1838 This was adapted into the French play Le pasteur ou Lévangile et le foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois That was in turn translated into Italian by Gaetano Vestri as Stifellius this formed the basis of Piaves libretto