Verdi Duecento

I want to commend Marion Lignana Rosenberg, whom I had admired from afar and now is a friend, for her splendid new Verdi blog, Verdi Duecento. As we close in on the Verdi bicentennial in 2013--one reason to look forward to the future--this blog will be an essential guide. Marion's scholarship and insights are superb, and she never posts unless she has something genuinely shrewd or new to impart. The three-segment interview with Philip Gossett, who is editing the Verdi critical edition, is a particular highlight.