This collection of essays addresses the issue of how to make Verdi's operas relevant to modern audiences while respecting the composer's intentions. Here, both scholars and music and stage practitioners reflect current thinking on matters such as "authentic" staging, performance practice, and the role of critical editions.
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"[A] timely and welcome contribution...[A]collection of instructive and perceptive essays that bridge the gap between scholarship and practice...[A] valuable source that will serve to enlighten readers about significant issues affecting the operatic experience today."--Journal of Musicological Research
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Alison Latham is Editor of The Oxford Companion to Music. Roger Parker is a Professor of Music, University of Cambridge.
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It is a hundred years since Verdi died, and more of his operas are now in the repertory than at any other period, whether during his lifetime or after it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
disposizione scenica, dance arias, alla prima crociata, staging manuals, stage manuals, original staging, character dance, forza del destino, autograph score, ballet music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
David Lawton, Philip Gossett, James Hepokoski, Covent Garden, Don Carlos, Giuseppe Verdi, Lucien Petipa, Simon Boccanegra, Andrew Porter, David Rosen, Marian Smith, Roger Parker, Will Crutchfield, Carlotta Grisi, Giulio Ricordi, Royal Opera, Second Empire, The Verdi Ballets, Francesco Degrada, Gabriele Dotto, Marie Taglioni, Carlo Ferrario, Emanuele Muzio, Fanny Elssler, Gilda's Act New!
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It is a hundred years since Verdi died, and more of his operas are now in the repertory than at any other period, whether during his lifetime or after it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
disposizione scenica, dance arias, alla prima crociata, staging manuals, stage manuals, original staging, character dance, forza del destino, autograph score, ballet music Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
David Lawton, Philip Gossett, James Hepokoski, Covent Garden, Don Carlos, Giuseppe Verdi, Lucien Petipa, Simon Boccanegra, Andrew Porter, David Rosen, Marian Smith, Roger Parker, Will Crutchfield, Carlotta Grisi, Giulio Ricordi, Royal Opera, Second Empire, The Verdi Ballets, Francesco Degrada, Gabriele Dotto, Marie Taglioni, Carlo Ferrario, Emanuele Muzio, Fanny Elssler, Gilda's Act New!
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- Don Carlos: Vocal Score by Walter Ducloux on 8 pages
- Simon Boccanegra: Vocal Score by Mario Parenti on 8 pages
- Luisa Miller: Melodramma tragico in Three Acts by Salvadore Cammaran, The Piano-Vocal Score (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi: Piano-Vocal Scores) by Giuseppe Verdi on 4 pages
- Simon Boccanegra by Verdi Giuseppe on page 111, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Don Carlo (Ma Non Troppograndes Compositores) (Spanish Edition) by Verdi Giuseppe on page 111, page 143, and Back Matter
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- Sing, Ariel: Essays and Thoughts for Alexander Goehr's Seventieth Birthday by Alison Latham in Front Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Verdi (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Scott L. Balthazar in Back Matter
- Opera: The Basics by Denise Gallo in Back Matter
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