The Life of Verdi

ISBN-13: 9780521660112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 218 str.

John Rosselli

Opis

Verdi's long life spanned Napoleonic rule and the age of broadcasting. In this new biography, John Rosselli considers a boldly innovative artist whose twenty-eight operas still speak to us. He investigates Verdi's businesslike running of a landed estate as well as a highly successful career, and looks into his complex relationships with two women singers: his second wife Giuseppina Strepponi and his probable lover Teresa Stolz. At the same time Roselli reinterprets the operas with novel insights showing us why Verdi still fills theaters and rouses enthusiasm.

Recenzje

'I would require students, both performers and incipient musicologists, to read extensively from this volume, with full confidence that it would open their minds to the myriad problems inherent in editing and performing music and engender lively, thoughtful discussion.' The Opera Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction: truth and theatre; 1. The innkeeper's son, 1813–1842: Oberto to Nabucco; 2. The galley slave, 1842–1847: Nabucco to Macbeth; 3. Turning-points, 1847–49: I masnadieri to La battaglia di Legnano; 4. The people's composer, 1849–1859: Luisa Miller to Un ballo in maschera; 5. Complications, 1859–1872: La forza del destino, Don Carlos, and Aida; 6. Evergreen, 1872–1901: the Requiem, Othello and Falstaff.