This book relates the life and experiences of composer Giuseppe Verdi, from his birth in 1813 to his death in 1901. Besides documenting Verdi's life and the music he created, it also goes further in discussing the times and culture in which he was living in 19th century Italy, both socially and politically. "A complete life-to-death biography, wonderfully comprehensive on both life and art, wonderfullly sensible, and splendidly gotten up." - The Boston Herald
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This book is a nice overview of Italian politics during the life of Verdi with a subplot regarding European politics.
The author spends pages describing the literary source of the operas, more pages describing the libretti and then after describing the Theater and singers intrigues, there is the most flimsy description of the music. Arias duets etc are hardly ever discussed in musical terms and details. Plot weaknesses and strengths are usually discussed. This is repeated for every opera. Poor Verdi and his music are reduced to comprimario status in this "Literary Opera". It is a pity because the author writes very lucidly. I just think he is off topic too often.
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This is a very good book, covering the whole of Verdi's life, and it gives a great overview of the Italian political scene throughout Verdi's life (which is a lot of politics!). The discussion of his relationship with Strepponi is judicious and not salacious. It is very clearly and finely written. I was captured by it. It is true, as another reviewer noted, that there isn't much on the music. There's a lot on the creation of the operas and the machinations around them, but no real music analysis. But there are other books for that.
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Pio Nono, Vittorio Emanuele, Don Carlo, Papal States, Mme Appiani, Contessa Maffei, Marie Louise, Philharmonic Society, Carlo Verdi, San Carlo, Carlo Alberto, Due Foscari, Simone Boccanegra, King Lear, Luisa Miller, Teresa Stolz, Dies Irae, Roman Republic, Don Alvaro, Kingdom of Italy, Lady Macbeth, Promessi Sposi, William Tell, Franz Josef, Prime Minister Browse Sample Pages:
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Pio Nono, Vittorio Emanuele, Don Carlo, Papal States, Mme Appiani, Contessa Maffei, Marie Louise, Philharmonic Society, Carlo Verdi, San Carlo, Carlo Alberto, Due Foscari, Simone Boccanegra, King Lear, Luisa Miller, Teresa Stolz, Dies Irae, Roman Republic, Don Alvaro, Kingdom of Italy, Lady Macbeth, Promessi Sposi, William Tell, Franz Josef, Prime Minister Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Cambridge Companion to Verdi (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Scott L. Balthazar in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Life and Times of Giuseppe Verdi (Masters of Music: The World's Greatest Composers) by Jim Whiting in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Cambridge History of Italian Literature by Peter Brand in Back Matter
- Verdi's Theater: Creating Drama through Music by Gilles de Van in Back Matter
- The Magic Of Opera (Da Capo Paperback) by J. Merrill Knapp on page 200
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