Stiffelio was based on the play Le pasteur, ou L'évangile et le foyer by Émile Souvestre and Eugène Bourgeois and was originally censored due to it involving as it does a Protestant minister of the church with an adulterous wife.
Once regarded as Verdi's lost opera because of early censorship and controversy Stiffelio has now established its rightful place in Verdi's canon. In this 1993 ...
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