Otello

Otello

Author: James A. Hepokoski

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1987-06-18

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9780521277495

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Summarises what is currently known about Otello and interprets its significance within Verdi's career.


Verdi's Otello

Verdi's Otello

Author: Giuseppe Verdi

Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0977145522

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A comprehensive guide to Verdi's OTELLO, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, a complete, newly translated LIBRETTO with Italian/English translation side-by-side and music examples, selected Discography and Videography, Dictionary of Opera and Musical Terms, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer.


Verdi's Otello

Verdi's Otello

Author: Burton D. Fisher

Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing

Published: 2001-08-15

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 1102009504

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Verdi in Victorian London

Verdi in Victorian London

Author: Massimo Zicari

Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Published: 2016-07-11

Total Pages: 211

ISBN-13: 178374216X

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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.


The Cambridge Companion to Verdi

The Cambridge Companion to Verdi

Author: Scott L. Balthazar

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-11-18

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1139825836

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This 2004 Companion provides a biographical, theatrical and social-cultural background for Verdi's music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. Aspects of Verdi's milieu, style, creative process and critical reception are explored in essays by highly reputed specialists. Individual chapters address themes in Verdi's life, his role in transforming the theater business, and his relationship to Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento. Chapters on four operas representative of the different stages of Verdi's career, Ernani, Rigoletto, Don Carlos and Otello synthesize analytical themes introduced in the more general chapters and illustrate the richness of Verdi's creativity. The Companion also includes chapters on Verdi's non-operatic songs and other music, his creative process, and scholarly writing about Verdi from the nineteenth-century to the present day.


Verdi

Verdi

Author: Julian Budden

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 439

ISBN-13: 0190273984

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In this third edition of the classic Verdi, renowned authority Julian Budden offers a comprehensive overview of Verdi the man and the artist, tracing his ascent from humble beginnings to the status of a cultural patriarch of the new Italy, whose cause he had done much to promote, and demonstrating the gradual enlargement over the years of his artistic vision. This concise study is an accessible, insightful, and engaging summation of Verdi scholarship, acquainting the non-specialist with the personal details Verdi's life, with the operatic world in which he worked, and with his political ideas, his intellectual vision, and his powerful means of communicating them through his music. In his survey of the music itself, Budden emphasizes the unique character of each work as well as the developing sophistication of Verdi's style. He covers all of the operas, the late religious works, the songs, and the string quartet. A glossary explains even the most obscure operatic terms current in Verdi's time.


The Verdi-Boito Correspondence

The Verdi-Boito Correspondence

Author: Giuseppe Verdi

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1994-07-25

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 9780226853048

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These 301 letters between Verdi and Bioto show a picture of daily life of European art and artists during the last decades of the 19th century.


Verdi's Theater

Verdi's Theater

Author: Gilles de Van

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-09-15

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780226143705

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But in the musical drama reality begins to blur, the musical forms lose their excessively neat patterns, and doubt and ambiguity undermine characters and situations, reflecting the crisis of character typical of modernity. Indeed, much of the interest and originality of Verdi's operas lie in his adherence to both these contradictory systems, allowing the composer/dramatist to be simultaneously classical and modern, traditionalist and innovator.


The Verdi Baritone

The Verdi Baritone

Author: Geoffrey Edwards

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 9780253220394

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One of the most significant developments in 19th-century Italian opera was the genesis of the Verdi baritone. The authors argue that the composer's baritone characters embody "a quintessential humanity, expressing needs and temptations, confusions and understandings, griefs and joys that transcend the particulars of time and place." The Verdi Baritone explores seven of the most fascinating roles in the repertory, revealing how they were conceived and executed. This eloquent book opens with a discussion of Verdi's early triumph, Nabucco; proceeds with Ernani, Macbeth, Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Simon Boccanegra; and concludes with his final great tragedy, Otello. Voice students, professional performers, their teachers and coaches, and opera lovers, will gain insight into Verdi's masterful use of text, music, and staging to portray each character's inner self.