| It is also a very good recording including a sumptuous libretto and extensive historical notes. |
| The libretto was re-written for raciness and local flavour and sung in English with surtitles, which seems redundant but was surprisingly handy. |
| On the concerto disc is also a choral work with a libretto devised to show the cruelty of man to beast and bird. |
| In a letter of June, 1815, Rossini wrote to a poet concerning a proposed libretto for a new work for Rome. |
| The libretto contains an essay, a synopsis, and texts in English and transliterated Russian. |
| One may lament the absence of a libretto but the CD version will probably be in most collectors' libraries anyway. |
