Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism

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CUP Archive, 23. 4. 1981 - Počet stran: 736
Professor Kimbell's classic study illuminates the first fifteen years of Verdi's composing career, the era that culminated in his trio of masterpieces, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore and La Traviata. Verdi had become an acknowledged master of the peculiar brand of Romanticism that flourished in Italy in the 1830s and 40s; this background is examined in its political, social and literary light, and his consequent transformation of Italian operatic conventions is analysed. The four parts of Professor Kimbell's book range over biographical, documentary, literary and close-analytical ground. Attention is given to individual operas in order to show how Verdi assimilated and developed the Romantic tradition in his work.

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The operatic experience
55
Dramatic principles and musical form in early ottocento
62
Launching a career
91
The genesis of an opera Ernani
113
Two overcrowded years
137
Verdi the idealist the Florence Macbeth
169
Opera as a business
201
Collaboration with Cammarano
245
Nabucco a risorgimento opera
445
Verdi and French Romanticism Ernani
460
Byronismo I Due Foscari and Il Corsaro
485
The impact of Shakespeare
559
La Battaglia di Legnano the opera of the revolution
561
Essays with Schiller
575
The originality of Rigoletto
623
Verdi and realism La Traviata
642

Bouts with the censor
253
Giuseppinas operas Il Trovatore and La Traviata
280
The first operas Oberto and Un Giorno di Regno
307
Italian grand opera Nabucco and I Lombardi alla
326
The early galley operas Ernani to Attila
346
Macbeth and its satellites
363
Verdi à la parisienne Jérusalem and La Battaglia di
385
The operas
443

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