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Author : Nicholas John
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780714540078
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Force of Destiny written by Nicholas John and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Massimo Zicari
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 178374216X
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book Verdi in Victorian London written by Massimo Zicari and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2016-07-11 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a byword for beauty, Verdi’s operas were far from universally acclaimed when they reached London in the second half of the nineteenth century. Why did some critics react so harshly? Who were they and what biases and prejudices animated them? When did their antagonistic attitude change? And why did opera managers continue to produce Verdi’s operas, in spite of their alleged worthlessness? Massimo Zicari’s Verdi in Victorian London reconstructs the reception of Verdi’s operas in London from 1844, when a first critical account was published in the pages of The Athenaeum, to 1901, when Verdi’s death received extensive tribute in The Musical Times. In the 1840s, certain London journalists were positively hostile towards the most talked-about representative of Italian opera, only to change their tune in the years to come. The supercilious critic of The Athenaeum, Henry Fothergill Chorley, declared that Verdi’s melodies were worn, hackneyed and meaningless, his harmonies and progressions crude, his orchestration noisy. The scribes of The Times, The Musical World, The Illustrated London News, and The Musical Times all contributed to the critical hubbub. Yet by the 1850s, Victorian critics, however grudging, could neither deny nor ignore the popularity of Verdi’s operas. Over the final three decades of the nineteenth century, moreover, London’s musical milieu underwent changes of great magnitude, shifting the manner in which Verdi was conceptualized and making room for the powerful influence of Wagner. Nostalgic commentators began to lament the sad state of the Land of Song, referring to the now departed "palmy days of Italian opera." Zicari charts this entire cultural constellation. Verdi in Victorian London is required reading for both academics and opera aficionados. Music specialists will value a historical reconstruction that stems from a large body of first-hand source material, while Verdi lovers and Italian opera addicts will enjoy vivid analysis free from technical jargon. For students, scholars and plain readers alike, this book is an illuminating addition to the study of music reception.
Author : Abramo Basevi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226094915
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (949 download)
Download or read book The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi written by Abramo Basevi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi’s operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer’s career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi’s operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857—from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, La traviata, and Aroldo. But while Basevi’s work is still widely cited and discussed—and nowhere more so than in the English-speaking world—no translation of the entire volume has previously been available. The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi fills this gap, at the same time providing an invaluable critical apparatus and commentary on Basevi’s work. As a contemporary of Verdi and a trained musician, erudite scholar, and critic conversant with current and past operatic repertories, Basevi presented pointed discussion of the operas and their historical context, offering today’s readers a unique window into many aspects of operatic culture, and culture in general, in Verdi’s Italy. He wrote with precision on formal aspects, use of melody and orchestration, and other compositional features, which made his study an acknowledged model for the growing field of music criticism. Carefully annotated and with an engaging introduction and detailed glossary by editor Stefano Castelvecchi, this translation illuminates Basevi’s musical and historical references as well as aspects of his language that remain difficult to grasp even for Italian readers. Making Basevi’s important contribution to our understanding of Verdi and his operas available to a broad audience for the first time, The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi will delight scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.
Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 071454499X
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Rigoletto written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The subject cannot fail!' exulted Verdi, when recommending Victor Hugo's play Le Roi s'amuse to his librettist. But the censors made every effort to stop it, and the baritone was not easily convinced that a hunchback role would suit him. Jonathan Keates gives a vivid insight into the composition of a masterpiece. Verdi long afterwards thought it his best work, and Roger Parker explains why. Peter Nichols, author of several bestselling books in Italy, picks out some of the peculiarly Italian attitudes and characters in the opera which make it timeless - and incredibly modern.Contents: Introduction, Jonathan Keates; Musical Commentary, Roger Parker; The Timelessness of 'Rigoletto', Peter Nichols; Rigoletto: Text by Francesco Maria Piave after Victor Hugo's 'Le Roi s'amuse'; Rigoletto: English translation by James Fenton
Author : Julian Budden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Operas of Verdi written by Julian Budden and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martin Chusid
Publisher : University Rochester Press
ISBN 13 : 158046422X
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Verdi's "Il trovatore" written by Martin Chusid and published by University Rochester Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study of Verdi's perennially popular opera Il trovatore, written by one of the world's great Verdi authorities. No full-length study has ever been written on Il trovatore, in his day Verdi's most successful stage work. This book by one of the world's great Verdi authorities fills that gap, providing a comprehensive look at the opera, from its genesis and structure to its early performance history and critical reception. Starting with the background of the opera, the volume traces the origins of the original play by Antonio García Gutiérrez, El trovador, and offers a new, more credible source for the drama. In addition, it examines the evolution of the libretto, the music, and the arrangement of the narrative, revealing innovative musical and dramatic features not seenby other critics. The book also includes a discussion of contemporary reviews and a section on some of the important performers in the twentieth century (for example, Toscanini and Caruso), as well as a consideration of several ofthe more unusual stagings of the work mounted during the final decades of the century. With these and other explorations, Martin Chusid offers a thorough survey of Verdi's Il trovatore and in the process deepens and enhances our encounter with one of the mainstays of the operatic reparatory. Martin Chusid is Professor Emeritus of Music, New York University, and founding director of the American Institute for Verdi Studies.
Author : Millicent Marcus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691209472
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Italian Film in the Light of Neorealism written by Millicent Marcus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The movement known as neorealism lasted seven years, generated only twenty-one films, failed at the box office, and fell short of its didactic and aesthetic aspirations. Yet it exerted such a profound influence on Italian cinema that all the best postwar directors had to come to terms with it, whether in seeming imitation (the early Olmi), in commercial exploitation (the middle Comencini) or in ostensible rejection (the recent Tavianis). Despite the reactionary pressures of the marketplace and the highly personalized visions of Fellini, Antonioni. And Visconti, Italian cinema has maintained its moral commitment to use the medium in socially responsible ways--if not to change the world, as the first neorealists hoped, then at least to move filmgoers to face the pressing economic, political, and human problems in their midst. From Rossellini's Open City (1945) to the Taviani brothers' Night of the Shooting Stars (1982). The author does close readings of seventeen films that tell the story of neorealism's evolving influence on Italian postwar cinematic expression. Other films discussed are De Sica's Bicycle Thief and Umberto D. De Santis's Bitter Rice, Comencini's Bread, Love, and Fantasy, Fellini's La strada, Visconti's Senso, Antonioni's Red Desert, Olmi's Il Posto, Germi's Seduced and Abandoned, Pasolini's Teorema, Petri's Investigation of a Citizen above Suspicion, Bertolucci's The Conformist, Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli, and Wertmuller's Love and Anarchy, Scola's We All Loved Each Other So Much provides the occasion for the author's own retrospective consideration of how Italian cinema has fulfilled, or disappointed, the promise of neorealism.
Author : Gabriele Baldini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521297127
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (971 download)
Download or read book The Story of Giuseppe Verdi written by Gabriele Baldini and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-11-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of Baldini's acclaimed study of verdi's operatic masterpieces, with new editorial additions.
Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393008524
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Seven Verdi Librettos : with the original italian written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1977 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verdi, like most great opera composers, attached supreme importance to the words he was setting to music.
Author : Arrigo Boito
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Falstaff. (Lyrische Comoedie in 3 Acten. Uebers. von V. J. Novotni. Musik von G. Verdi.) written by Arrigo Boito and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gregory W. Harwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100052485X
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Giuseppe Verdi written by Gregory W. Harwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Giuseppe Verdi already stood out as a distinctive and unusually significant composer by the time his career was barely underway. Today, Verdi scholars build their work on a vast foundation of earlier research. For researchers who have not spent years with the Verdi literature or who may just be starting to explore some aspect of this giant’s fife and works, this foundation may seem daunting indeed. It is primarily for these researchers that this guide is intended. Its purpose is to index and describe some of the most significant studies about the composer, presenting enough material in annotations that researchers may survey the many myriad directions Verdi research has gone, ascertain the relevance of individual items to their individual interests, and pursue significant patterns and threads in which they are interested.
Author : John Suchet
Publisher : Pegasus Books
ISBN 13 : 9781681777689
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (776 download)
Download or read book Verdi written by John Suchet and published by Pegasus Books. This book was released on 2018-07-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giuseppe Verdi remains Italy’s greatest operatic composer and a man of apparent contradictions—vividly brought to life through a nuanced examination of his life and monumental music. Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story. An obsessive perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from the start as dazzling feats of composition and characterization. From Rigoletto to Otello, La Traviatato to Aida, Verdi’s canon encompassed the full range of human emotion. His private life was no less complex: he suffered great loss, and went out of his way to antagonize supporters and his own family. An outspoken advocate of Italian independence and a sharp critic of the church, he was often at odds with nineteenth-century society. In Verdi: The Man Revealed, John Suchet attempts to get under the skin of perhaps the most private composer who ever lived. Unraveling his protestations, his deliberate embellishments and disavowals, Suchet reveals the true character of this great artist—and the art for which he will be forever known.
Author : Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198166009
Total Pages : 941 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Verdi written by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 941 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with exclusive access to the original Verdi family documents, this book explores the facts behind the myths of this extraordinary figure. Previously unknown aspects of Verdi's life are exposed in this biography, which took 30 years to write.
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1102009466
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Verdi's Il Trovatore written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher : Serenissima Music
ISBN 13 : 9781608742141
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (421 download)
Download or read book Don Carlos, Ballet de la Reine written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by Serenissima Music. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly edited and engraved score prepared by Howard K. Wolf of the third act ballet, Ballet de la Reine or La Peregrina, for the world premiere of Don Carlos given in Paris on March 11, 1867.
Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Home to Our Mountains written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victorien Sardou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781375769242
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (692 download)
Download or read book La Tosca written by Victorien Sardou and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
