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Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Operas
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042431267
Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Operas
ISBN : STANFORD:36105126944029
Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Operas
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042486626
Author : Massimo Zicari
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783742165
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
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-26
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780226095073
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 : Giorgio Bagnoli
Publisher : Amadeus
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 157467448X
VERDI'S OPERAS: AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF PLOTS CHARACTERS SOURCES AND CRITICISM
Author : Susan Rutherford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107043824
Susan Rutherford explores Verdi's operas in the context of women's social, cultural and political history in 19th-century Italy.
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781942317272
A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE AND LIBRETTO of Verdi's ERNANI, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; a newly translated LIBRETTO with Italian and English translation side-by-side, with Music Highlight Examples; and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis.
Author : Gabriele Baldini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1980-11-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521297125
A translation of Baldini's acclaimed study of verdi's operatic masterpieces, with new editorial additions.
Author : Mary Ann Smart
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780520966574
The name Giuseppe Verdi conjures images of Italians singing opera in the streets and bursting into song at political protests or when facing the firing squad. While many of the accompanying stories were exaggerated, or even invented, by later generations, Verdi's operas—along with those by Rossini, Donizetti, and Mercadante—did inspire Italians to imagine Italy as an independent and unified nation. Capturing what it was like to attend the opera or to join in the music at an aristocratic salon, Waiting for Verdi shows that the moral dilemmas, emotional reactions, and journalistic polemics sparked by these performances set new horizons for what Italians could think, feel, say, and write. Among the lessons taught by this music were that rules enforced by artistic tradition could be broken, that opera could jolt spectators into intense feeling even as it educated them, and that Italy could be in the vanguard of stylistic and technical innovation rather than clinging to the glories of centuries past. More practically, theatrical performances showed audiences that political change really was possible, making the newly engaged spectator in the opera house into an actor on the political stage.
Author : Carolyn Abbate,Roger Parker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780520310810
Analyzing Opera: Verdi and Wagner explores the latest developments in opera analysis by considering, side by side, the works of the two greatest opera composers of the nineteenth century. Although the juxtaposition is not new, comparative studies have tended to view these masters as radically different both as musicians and as musical dramatists. Wagner and his "symphonic opera" set against Verdi "the melodist" is one of many familiar antitheses, and it serves to highlight the particular terms from which comparisons are often made. In this book some of the leading and most innovative music scholars challenge this view, suggesting that as we become more distant from the nineteenth century, we may see that Verdi and Wagner confronted largely similar problems, and even on occasion found similar solutions. But more than this, Analyzing Opera sets out to demonstrate the richness and variety of modern analytical approaches to the genre. As the editors point out in their introduction, today's musical scholars increasingly question the usefulness of organicist theories in analytical studies, and, as they do so, opera seems to become an ever more central area of investigation. Opera is peculiar: its clash of verbal, musical, and visual systems can produce incongruities and extravagant miscalculations. It invites a multiplicity of approaches, challenges orthodoxy, and embraces ambiguity. The sheer variety of essays presented here is witness to this fact and suggests that analyzing opera is one of the liveliest (and most polemical) areas in modern-day musical scholarship. Contributors: Philip Gossett, John Deathridge, James A. Hepokoski, Joseph Kerman, Thomas S. Grey, Matthew Brown, Anthony Newcomb, Martin Chusid, David Lawton, and Patrick McCreless. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989.
Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Opera
ISBN : OCLC:465814480
Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Operas
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042488374
Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015009610265
This is the first full-length study of all of Verdi's operas. This work of the British music critic Charles Osborne covers Verdi's complete operatic oeuvre--including the missing choral works, songs, a string quartet, and the Messa da Requiem. The operas of Shakespeare's Falstaff and Othello show how the legendary composer added both depth and dignity to the Italian operatic repertoire. In this volume, every Verdi opera is explored from four points of view: 1) Verdi's life at the time each was written; 2) the story, and the way it links with the music; 3) the libretto and librettist, and Verdi's relations with his publishers; 4) and the music itself, analyzed with examples from the score.