Giuseppe Verdi: A Research and Information Guide, Gregory W. Harwood

Автор: Daniel Albright
Название: Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten: Great Shakespeareans: Volume XI
ISBN: 1472518519 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472518514
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.

In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner and Britten to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Автор: Petrobelli Pierluigi
Название: Music in the Theater: Essays on Verdi and Other Composers
ISBN: 0691603464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691603469
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Описание: Well-known for leading audiences to a new appreciation of Verdi as a subtle and elaborate musical thinker, Pierluigi Petrobelli here turns his attention to the intriguing question of how musical theater works. In this collection of lively, penetrating essays, Petrobelli analyzes specific operas, mainly by Verdi, in terms of historical context, musi

Автор: Rosselli, John
Название: Life of verdi
ISBN: 052166957X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521669573
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Verdi`s life spanned Napoleonic rule and the age of broadcasting. In this biography, John Rosselli considers a boldly innovative artist, offering novel insights into operas which still fill theatres today. He investigates Verdi`s businesslike running of a highly successful career, and his complex relationships with two women singers.

Автор: Smart Mary Ann
Название: Waiting for Verdi: Opera and Political Opinion in Nineteenth-Century Italy, 1815-1848
ISBN: 0520276256 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520276253
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Описание: 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.

Автор: Hutcheon Linda, Hutcheon Michael
Название: Four Last Songs: Aging and Creativity in Verdi, Strauss, Messiaen, and Britten
ISBN: 022642068X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226420684
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Описание: Aging and creativity can seem a particularly fraught relationship for artists, who often face age-related difficulties as their audience's expectations are at a peak. In Four Last Songs, Linda and Michael Hutcheon explore this issue via the late works of some of the world's greatest composers.

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), Richard Strauss (1864-1949), Olivier Messiaen (1908-92), and Benjamin Britten (1913-76) all wrote operas late in life, pieces that reveal unique responses to the challenges of growing older. Verdi's Falstaff, his only comedic success, combated Richard Wagner's influence by introducing young Italian composers to a new model of national music. Strauss, on the other hand, struggling with personal and political problems in Nazi Germany, composed the self-reflexive Capriccio, a "life review" of opera and his own legacy. Though it exhausted him physically and emotionally, Messiaen at the age of seventy-five finished his only opera, Saint Fran ois d'Assise, which marked the pinnacle of his career. Britten, meanwhile, suffering from heart problems, refused surgery until he had completed his masterpiece, Death in Venice. For all four composers, age, far from sapping their creative power, provided impetus for some of their best accomplishments.

With its deft treatment of these composers' final years and works, Four Last Songs provides a valuable look at the challenges--and opportunities--that present themselves as artists grow older.

Автор: Giger
Название: Verdi and the French Aesthetic
ISBN: 0521349540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521349543
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: When an Italian composer such as Giuseppe Verdi set out to write a work on French libretto, and for a French audience, he faced the challenges of understanding French poetic rhythms and adapting to French taste. This book illustrates Verdi`s gradual mastery of these challenges and their historical significance.

Автор: Rutherford
Название: Verdi, Opera, Women
ISBN: 1107043824 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107043824
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Описание: Verdi`s operas portray a striking diversity of female protagonists, including warrior women, courtesans, gypsies and feisty townswomen. Contextualising these characters within the social, cultural and political history of their period, Susan Rutherford examines the shifting and complex relationships between them and their female spectators in nineteenth-century Italy.

Автор: Kreuzer
Название: Verdi and the Germans
ISBN: 1107638402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107638402
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Описание: Drawing on an exceptionally broad range of sources, in this book Kreuzer explores how Italian opera, epitomised by Giuseppe Verdi, influenced ideas of German musical and national identity from the mid nineteenth century onwards. The book discusses the changing image of Verdi and the transnational dissemination, reception and political appropriation of his works.