The Politics of Verdi's Cantica

ISBN-13: 9780367669461 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str.

Roberta Montemorra Marvin

Opis

This study unpacks the history of Verdi's composition from its creation, performance, and publication in the 1860s through its appropriation as social and political commentary and its perception by American broadcast media as a 'weapon of art' in the mid-twentieth century. The project also offers the first fully documented study of the performances

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Verdi’s Cantica: behind the scenes; The public face of Verdi’s Cantica; Toscanini’s ’weapon of art’; Toscanini’s film: voices of protest and veiled messages; Appendices; Bibliography of sources consulted; Index.

O autorze

Roberta Montemorra Marvin is co-editor of six books, most recently Music in Print and Beyond (2013), and author of Verdi the Student - Verdi the Teacher (2010). She is also editor of The Cambridge Verdi encyclopedia (2013), and series editor for Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera and the Ashgate Library of Essays in Opera Studies.