Il Trovatore (The Troubadour) has a convoluted (some might say silly) and hard-to-follow plot with more twists and turns than a mountain path, but it also has some of Giuseppe Verdi's best-beloved music, including those Big Tunes for operatic gypsies, Azucena's aria "Stride la vampa" (an account of punishment by flame) and the Anvil Chorus. Verdiphiles can check it all out (including those anvil parts) in this Dover reprint of a full orchestral score. The usual caveats apply: the full score is better suited to the music student than to the working singer or accompanist, and this is a reprint of an older score and so may contain errors corrected in more recent editions. Still, for the price, it's a bargain indeed.