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.


Verdi's Theater

Verdi's Theater

Author: Gilles de Van

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1998-09-15

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 9780226143699

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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 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: 9780521635356

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This Companion provides a biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's operas, 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. Like others in the series this Companion is aimed primarily at students and opera lovers.


Verdis Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz

Verdis Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz

Author: Caroline Ellsmore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-14

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 1351731637

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This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi’s attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi’s professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional socio-sexual structure of patria potestà, in the context of women’s changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi’s creativity at the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Each was an essential emotional benefactor without whom Verdi’s career would not have been the same. The subject of the Strepponi-Verdi marriage and the impact of Strepponi’s past deserve further detailed and nuanced discussion. This book demonstrates Verdi’s shifting power-balance with Strepponi as she sought to retain intellectual self-respect while his success and control increased. The negative stereotypes concerning operatic ‘divas’ do not withstand scrutiny when applied either to Strepponi or to Stolz. This book presents a revisionist appraisal of Stolz through close examination of her letters. Revealing Stolz’s value to Verdi, they also provide contemporary operatic criticism and behind-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time.


Verdi, Opera, Women

Verdi, Opera, Women

Author: Susan Rutherford

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1107043824

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Prologue : Verdi and his audience -- War -- Prayer -- Romance -- Sexuality -- Marriage -- Death -- Laughter.


National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I

National Traditions in Nineteenth-Century Opera, Volume I

Author: Steven Huebner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-03-02

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 1351915851

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This volume covers opera in Italy, France, England and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1914). The book is divided into four sections that are thematically, rather than geographically, conceived: Places-essays centering on contexts for operatic culture; Genres and Styles-studies dealing with the question of how operas in this period were put together; Critical Studies of individual works, exemplifying particular critical trends; and Performance.


Verdi's Operas

Verdi's Operas

Author: Giorgio Bagnoli

Publisher: Amadeus

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781574674484

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VERDI'S OPERAS: AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF PLOTS CHARACTERS SOURCES AND CRITICISM