The Life of Verdi
Part of Musical Lives
- Author: John Rosselli
- Date Published: August 2000
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521669573
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Verdi's long life spanned Napoleonic rule and the age of broadcasting. In this new biography, John Rosselli considers a boldly innovative artist whose twenty-eight operas still speak to us. He investigates Verdi's businesslike running of a landed estate as well as a highly successful career, and looks into his complex relationships with two women singers: his second wife Giuseppina Strepponi and his probable lover Teresa Stolz. At the same time Roselli reinterprets the operas with novel insights showing us why Verdi still fills theaters and rouses enthusiasm.
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"As the muscial world starts to weary of the Bach year and look forward to a Verdi year, beginning with the 100th anniversary of that composer's death in January, a new Verdi biography by John Rosselli is timely. So, for different reasons in the absence of any imminent Mendelssohn year, is a companion volume on that master by Peter Mercer-Taylor. Both form part of an unsually stimulating series of brief lives of the composers, now numbering a baker's dozen, from Cambridge University Press. ...both biographies are entertaining...and each, like several other biographies in the series, offers a fine introduction to its subject for the general reader as well as a firm critical tack that even the specialists may enjoy testing: about the most one could ask of a small book." --New York Times, Books of the Times
See more reviews"Both [Life of Mendelssohn] form part of an unsually stimulating series of brief lives of the composers, now numbering a baker's dozen, from Cambridge University Press...offers a fine introduction to its subject for the general reader as well as a firm critical tack that even the specialist may enjoy testing: about the most one could ask of a small book." International Herald Tribune
"The composer emerges as a complex, often conflicted personality through Rosselli's clear, compact, and vivid prose. Carefully annotated, with some uncommon illustrations and a well-considered guide to further reading, this is an excellent choice for libraries seeking to replace or supplement volumes on Verdi. Highly recommended." Library Journal
"Rosselli offers a rich view of the events and experiences that shaped Verdi as a musician and a man. He makes frequent references to Verdi's correspondence and the supplementary readings, but he manages these in a way that does not interrupt the narrative flow. A useful index of names, works, and ideas helps readers wind their way among the characters and themes in still other ways. Recommended especially for undergraduates and general readers." Choice
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- Date Published: August 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521669573
- length: 220 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 139 x 14 mm
- weight: 0.26kg
- contains: 24 b/w illus. 1 map
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: truth and theatre
1. The innkeeper's son, 1813–1842: Oberto to Nabucco
2. The galley slave, 1842–1847: Nabucco to Macbeth
3. Turning-points, 1847–49: I masnadieri to La battaglia di Legnano
4. The people's composer, 1849–1859: Luisa Miller to Un ballo in maschera
5. Complications, 1859–1872: La forza del destino, Don Carlos, and Aida
6. Evergreen, 1872–1901: the Requiem, Othello and Falstaff.
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