Author: Louis A. EspositoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Metamorphosis of Le Roi S'Amuse to Rigoletto
Author: Louis A. EspositoRigoletto
Author: Giuseppe VerdiRigoletto. A Lyric Drama, in Three Acts [by F.M. Piave, Founded on Victor Hugo's "Le Roi S'amuse"] ... Edited and Translated by M. Maggioni, as Represented at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. Ital. and Eng
Author: RIGOLETTO.The Operas of Verdi: From Oberto to Rigoletto
Author: Julian BuddenPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
An analysis of Verdi's entire operatic output done in great depth and detail and based on exhaustive research in European archives. The first volume of this monumental study is a reissue. Two additional volumes are in preparation.
Rigoletto ... As Represented at the Royal Opera, Covent Garden. Italian-English Edition, with the Music of the Principal Airs. [Libretto, by F.M. Piave, Founded on Victor Hugo's "Le Roi S'amuse."].
Author: Francesco Maria PiaveRigoletto. A Lyric Drama, in Three Acts [by F.M. Piave, Founded on Victor Hugo's "Le Roi S'amuse"] ... Edited and Translated by M. Maggioni, as Represented at the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden. Ital. and Eng
Author: RIGOLETTO.The Worlds of Rigoletto
Author: Mark WaltersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The purpose of this treatise will be to explore Verdi's development of the title role of his opera Rigoletto. The historical timeline will be followed from Verdi's first documented interest in Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse as a libretto to the critical reaction of the first performances of Rigoletto. The main body of this paper will focus on musical examples that demonstrate how the composer delineated the dual nature of Rigoletto's character: the deformed, bitter, court jester and the impassioned, loving father. Every aspect of Verdi's compositional technique -- melody, rhythm, harmony, dynamics, articulation, orchestration, and form -- will be explored to discover how he gave full range to Rigoletto's emotional expression and the dramatic development of his character.
Fire in the Minds of Men
Author: James H. BillingtonPublisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0765804719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 694
Book Description
This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became the most pronounced ideological export of the West to the rest of the world in the twentieth century. Billington is interested in revolutionaries--the innovative creators of a new tradition. His historical frame extends from the waning of the French Revolution in the late eighteenth century to the beginnings of the Russian Revolution in the early twentieth century. The theater was Europe of the industrial era; the main stage was the journalistic offices within great cities such as Paris, Berlin, London, and St. Petersburg. Billington claims with considerable evidence that revolutionary ideologies were shaped as much by the occultism and proto-romanticism of Germany as the critical rationalism of the French Enlightenment. The conversion of social theory to political practice was essentially the work of three Russian revolutions: in 1905, March 1917, and November 1917. Events in the outer rim of the European world brought discussions about revolution out of the school rooms and press rooms of Paris and Berlin into the halls of power. Despite his hard realism about the adverse practical consequences of revolutionary dogma, Billington appreciates the identity of its best sponsors, people who preached social justice transcending traditional national, ethnic, and gender boundaries. When this book originally appeared The New Republic hailed it as "remarkable, learned and lively," while The New Yorker noted that Billington "pays great attention to the lives and emotions of individuals and this makes his book absorbing." It is an invaluable work of history and contribution to our understanding of political life.
Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History
Author: Agnes Heller†Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004460128
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Completed shortly before her death in 2019, Tragedy and Philosophy. A Parallel History is the sum of Agnes Heller’s reflections on European history and culture, seen through the prism of Europe’s two unique literary creations: tragedy and philosophy.
The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La traviata
Author: Emilio SalaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110724451X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
How did Paris and its musical landscape influence Verdi's La traviata? In this book, Emilio Sala re-examines La traviata in the cultural context of the French capital in the mid-nineteenth century. Verdi arrived in Paris in 1847 and stayed for almost two years: there, he began his relationship with Giuseppina Strepponi and assiduously attended performances at the popular theatres, whose plays made frequent use of incidental music to intensify emotion and render certain dramatic moments memorable to the audience. It is in one of these popular theatres that Verdi probably witnessed one of the first performances of Dumas fils' La Dame aux camélias, which became hugely successful in 1852. Making use of primary source material, including unpublished musical works, journal articles and rare documents and images, Sala's close examination of the incidental music of La Dame aux camélias - and its musical context - offers an invaluable interpretation of La traviata's modernity.