Gustavo III (Verdi) to meet commitments regarding "Lear". Finally, in a letter which he wrote to Torelli in September 1857, Verdi confessed that he had "looked through an infinite number of plays...but not one of them will do for me..." but he then described an existing libretto which interested him, one which was written by the French playwright and librettist Eugene Scribe for Daniel Auber's very successful 1833 opera, "Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué": Verdi turned to the historical subject of King Gustav III of Sweden, who was shot while attending a masked ball in Stockholm in 1792 and died thirteen days
Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings (Bo Hansson album) 1988 as an "extended remixed version", with an additional eleven bonus tracks taken from Hansson's other 1970s albums "Magician's Hat" and "Attic Thoughts". It was then reissued on CD for a second time in 1993 by Resource Records, again in a remixed version but without any bonus tracks. In 2002, the album was re-issued again by Silence Records and Virgin Records, with the inclusion of the previously unreleased bonus track "Early Sketches from Middle Earth". Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings (Bo Hansson album) Music Inspired by Lord of the Rings is an instrumental progressive rock album by Swedish