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Aida by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Giuseppe Verdi; Edmund Tracey (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
Aida is, for most of us, the quintessence of Ancient Egypt, but it is certainly not just for archaeologists. Michael Rose points out that it is really about patriotism - an issue of burning importance to Verdi and his contemporaries. Music critic William Mann reflects that even a short look at the score ...Show more
Don Carlos by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Giuseppe Verdi
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
It used to be thought that Verdi miscalculated with this attempt at a "grand opera" in the French style. This guide demonstrates that Don Carlos was - and remains - an extraordinary achievement in melding two opposing visions of opera: the spectacular public aspect of the French tradition with the drama ...Show more
Falstaff by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Giuseppe Verdi; Andrew Porter (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
"A lyric comedy unlike any other", wrote Verdi about his last opera. That the last work of a composer who was almost notorious for his preference for tragic and gloomy subjects should be a brilliant human comedy was and remains one of the wonders of music. Michael Rose considers its status in Italian co ...Show more
Il Trovatore by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Giuseppe Verdi; Tom Hammond (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
In this guide to Verdi's popular opera, Marcello Conati of the Institute for Verdi Studies points out that, although audiences have always adored it, critics are only now coming to see that it represents a step forward, not back, from the revolutionary drama of Rigoletto, completed a year before. Profes ...Show more
La Forza Del Destino by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Giuseppe Verdi; Andrew Porter (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
"Verdi's War and Peace", writes Peter Conrad of this epic opera composed in 1862. It encompasses the extremes of a religious and secular existence - the worlds of the lovers pursued by an uncompromising fate and of the people in the scenes at the inn and on the battlefield. Despite its beautiful score, ...Show more
La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
A complete guide to Giuseppe Verdi's 18th opera, showing him at the height of his middle-period powers Adapted from "La dame aux Camelias" by Alexandre Dumas, fils, "La Traviata" portrays the love of the courtesan Violetta Valery and the young Alfredo Germont in fashionable Parisian society, with its in ...Show more
Macbeth by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Giuseppe Verdi; Jeremy Sams (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
Verdi came to Shakespeare through Italian translation and had never seen Macbeth on stage when he wrote his first version of the opera in 1847. Giorgio Melchiori draws a parallel between the conditions in which the playwright and the composer were working and compares their achievements. The supernatura ...Show more
Otello by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Giuseppe Verdi
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
Winton Dean relates how Otello came into being as much because of the persistence of Verdi's publisher as of the composer's lifelong passion for Shakespeare, and the collaboration of the brilliant poet Arrigo Boito. Benedict Sarnaker argues that this magnificent large-scale opera rivals Shakespeare in i ...Show more
Otello by Giuseppe Verdi
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Otello, Verdi's penultimate opera, was composed more than a dozen years after Aida, which he had intended to be his last work for the stage. He was persuaded by his publisher Giulio Ricordi to work with the librettist Arrigo Boito on an adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello; the resulting work is one of t ...Show more
Rigoletto by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Giuseppe Verdi; James Fenton (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
Rigoletto was first produced at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, in 1851, and is generally seen as marking the beginning of Giuseppe Verdi's extraordinary middle period. It was followed in quick succession by Il trovatore and La traviata, and even after the great success of these two works Verdi regarded i ...Show more
Simon Boccanegra by English National Opera Staff (Contribution by); Giuseppe Verdi; Gary Khan (Volume Editor)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Verdi's Simon Boccanegra exists in two versions: that of the 1857 original and that of the 1881 revision. The texts of the libretto of both versions are included in this guide, with a number of essays which focus on the differences between the two. Rodolfo Celleti provides the story's historical context ...Show more
Un Ballo in Maschera by Nicholas John (Volume Editor); Giuseppe Verdi
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
"See how the drama is turned into laughter", comment the chorus, as they witness the destruction of a marriage and a friendship. Here Pierluigi Petrobelli shows how the irony woven into the tragedy results from the meeting of French and Italian traditions. Is this really a ridiculous libretto mangled by ...Show more
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