The operas of Verdi. volume 1 : from Oberto to Rigoletto / Julian Budden.
By: Budden, Julian
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BookPublisher: London : Clarendon Press, 1992Description: xiii, 524 p. : music ; 23 cm.ISBN: 0198162618.Subject(s): Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Operas | OperaDDC classification: 782.1092 Ver | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 782.1092 Ver (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00174434 |
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This is the first volume of Julian Budden's monumental three-volume survey of the operas of Verdi. Hailed on publication for its extraordinary comprehensibility, the set has become the classic reference work on its subject. For this new edition the author has made a host of corrections throughout, and updated the text in the light of recent scholarship. Volume I traces the organic growth and development of the composer's style from 1839 to 1851 - from the first opera, Oberto, to the seventeenth, Rigoletto. Budden examines each opera in detail with a full account of its dramatic and historical origins and a brief critical evaluation. More than 350 musical examples point to the significance of the early operas in Verdi's developing style.
includes index.
Verdi and the World of the Primo Ottocento -- Characteristics of the early operas -- Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio -- Un giorno di regno -- Nabucco -- I Lombardi alla prima crociata -- Ernani -- I due foscari -- Giovanna d'Arco -- Alzira -- Attila -- Macbeth -- I masnadieri -- Jerusalem -- Il corsaro -- La battaglia di legnano -- Luisa Miller -- Stiffelio -- Rigoletto.
Tony Duggan Collection.