Author: Hans BuschPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Verdi's Otello & Simon Boccanegra (Rev. Version) in Letters & Documents
Author: Hans BuschVerdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised Version) in Letters and Documents
Author: Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised Version) in Letters and Documents
Author: Verdi's Otello and Simon Boccanegra (revised Version) in Letters and Documents
Author: Giuseppe VerdiPublisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] : Clarendon Press ; Toronto : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
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.
Opera
Author: Guy A. MarcoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113557801X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 655
Book Description
Opera is the only guide to the research writings on all aspects of opera. This second edition presents 2,833 titles--over 2,000 more than the first edition--of books, parts of books, articles and dissertations with full bibliographic descriptions and critical annotations. Users will find the core literature on the operas of 320 individual composers and details of operatic life in 43 countries. All relevant works through to November 1999 have been considered, covering more than fifteen years of literature since the first edition was published.
Otello
Author: Giuseppe VerdiPublisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714544671
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
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 the supreme examples of Italian opera. Greeted with enormous enthusiasm at its premiere at La Scala in 1887, Otello immediately went on to huge success in all the major opera houses of the world. The richness of its musical and dramatic inventiveness is largely unmatched in Verdi's output, and its title role is perhaps the most demanding for the tenor in any Italian opera.This volume contains articles describing how Verdi was persuaded to write the opera and extracts from the extended correspondence between Verdi and Boito during the period of composition, as well as a detailed musical commentary and a historical survey of important productions and performers of the principal roles. The guide includes the full libretto with English translation, a discography, a bibliography, and DVD and website guides.Contains:The Moor of Venice, Milan and Sant'Agata, Avril BardoniOtello: Drama and Music, Benedict SarnakerOtello: A Selective Performance History, Hugo ShirleyOtello: Libretto by Arrigo Boito after the play Othello by William ShakespeareOtello: English translation by Avril Bardoni
Giuseppe Verdi
Author: Gregory W. HarwoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100052485X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
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.
Simon Boccanegra
Author: Giuseppe VerdiPublisher: Alma Books
ISBN: 0714544744
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
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, setting the events of the real life of Simon Boccanegra against the unification of Italy, which formed the political backdrop to the composition of both versions of Verdi's opera. James A. Hepokoski gives a detailed synopsis of the 1881 score, and indicates the ways in which Verdi radically revised the original and reworked it to fit his late style. Lastly, Desmond Shawe-Taylor discusses Verdi's attitude to his singers, and the critical reception that performances of both versions of the opera received.This edition contains over twenty illustrations, a thematic guide and the texts of the libretti in the original with literal translations. There is also a bibilography, discography and DVD guide, together with a list of websites that will allow the reader to explore the opera further.Contains:A Historical Perspective, Rodolfo CellettiAn Introduction to the 1881 Score, James HepokoskiVerdi and His Singers: The vocal character of the two versions of Simon Boccanegra in relation to the original casts, Desmond Shawe-TaylorA Performance and Reception History, George HallSimon Boccanegra: Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, with additions by Giuseppe Montanelli. Further additions and alterations for the revised version by Arrigo BoitoSimon Boccanegra: English translation of the 1881 libretto by Lionel SalterSimon Boccanegra: English translation of the 1857 libretto by Emanuela Guastella
Giuseppe Verdi
Author: Gregory W. HarwoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136317236
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
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
Author: Julian BuddenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190273984
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
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.