Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised Version) in Letters and Documents

Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised Version) in Letters and Documents
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1988
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

This groundbreaking study illuminates the creation and early productions of Otello and the revised version of Simon Boccanegra by featuring Verdi's correspondence with his librettist, Arrigo Boito, and their publisher, Giulio Ricordi. An indispensable guide to Verdi's late works, the book also contains reviews of the early performances, production books kept by Boito and Ricordi, and biographical notes on all correspondents.

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi
Author: Gregory W. Harwood
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 466
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1136317236

This comprehensive research guide surveys the most significant published materials relating to Giuseppe Verdi. This new edition includes research since the publication of the first edition in 1998.

Verdi

Verdi
Author: Julian Budden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2008-04-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0199886636

In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done much to promote, and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision. This concise study is an accessible, insightful, and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship, acquainting the non-specialist with the personal details Verdi's life, with the operatic world in which he worked, and with his political ideas, his intellectual vision, and his powerful means of communicating them through his music. In his survey of the music itself, Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well as the developing sophistication of Verdi's style. He covers all of the operas, the late religious works, the songs, and the string quartet. A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms current in Verdi's time.

Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016

Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation 1929-2016
Author: Robin Healey
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 1104
Release: 2019-03-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1487502923

Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey's Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

Verdi With a Vengeance

Verdi With a Vengeance
Author: William Berger
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2010-06-23
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0307756335

Everything you could possibly know about Verdi and his operas, from the brilliant and humorous author of Wagner Without Fear. If you want to know why La traviata was actually a flop at its premiere in 1853, it's in here. If you want to know why claiming to have heard Bjorling's Chicago performance of Il trovatore is the classic opera fan faux pas, it's in here. Even if you just want to know how to pronounce Aida, or what the plot of Rigoletto is all about, this is the place to look. From the composer's intense hatred of priests to synopses of the operas and a detailed discography of the best recordings to buy, it can all be found in Verdi with a Vengeance. William Berger has given another improbable performance, serving up a book as thorough as it is funny and as original as it is astute, an utterly indispensable guide for novice and expert alike.

Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts

Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts
Author: Mark Thornton Burnett
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 601
Release: 2011-10-12
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0748649344

This authoritative and innovative volume explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to a wide range of artistic practices and activities, past and present.

Opera Acts

Opera Acts
Author: Karen Henson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-01-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1316194175

Opera Acts explores a wealth of new historical material about singers in the late nineteenth century and challenges the idea that this was a period of decline for the opera singer. In detailed case studies of four figures - the late Verdi baritone Victor Maurel; Bizet's first Carmen, Célestine Galli-Marié; Massenet's muse of the 1880s and 1890s, Sibyl Sanderson; and the early Wagner star Jean de Reszke - Karen Henson argues that singers in the late nineteenth century continued to be important, but in ways that were not conventionally 'vocal'. Instead they enjoyed a freedom and creativity based on their ability to express text, act and communicate physically, and exploit the era's media. By these and other means, singers played a crucial role in the creation of opera up to the end of the nineteenth century.

The Urbanization of Opera

The Urbanization of Opera
Author: Anselm Gerhard
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1998-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226288574

Why do so many operas end in suicide, murder, and death? Why do many characters in large-scale operas exhibit neurotic behaviors worthy of psychoanalysis? Why are the legendary grands operas - much celebrated in their time - so seldom performed today?