The Cambridge Companion to Verdi
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Edited by Scott F. Balthazar
Cambridge University Press
Due/Published
June 2003, 350 pages,
paper
ISBN
0521635357
Providing biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi's operas, this Companion examines important general aspects of their style and method of composition. Verdi's milieu, creative process, and critical reception are subsequently explored in essays by specialists who critically appraise his accomplishments. Contributors: Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Alessandro Roccatagliati, Mary Ann Smart, Scott L. Balthazar, Fabrizio della Seta, Emanuele Senici, Andreas Giger, Steven Huebner, David Kimbell, Roberta Montemorra Marvin, Rosa Solinas, Cormac Newark, Harold Powers, Luke Jensen, Gregory Harwood Contents List of music examples
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Preface
Chronology Part I. Personal, Cultural, and Political Context: 1. Verdi's life: a thematic biography - Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
2. The Italian theater of Verdi's day - Alessandro Roccatagliati
3. Verdi, Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento - Mary Ann Smart Part II. The Style of Verdi's Operas and Non-Operatic Works: 4. The forms of set pieces - Scott L. Balthazar
5. New currents in the libretto - Fabrizio della Seta
6. Words and music - Emanuele Senici
7. French influences - Andreas Giger
8. Structural coherence - Steven Huebner
9. Instrumental music in Verdi's operas - David Kimbell
10. Verdi's non-operatic works - Roberta Montemorra Marvin Part III. Essays on Representative Operas: 11. Ernani: the tenor in transformation - Rosa Solinas
12. 'Ch'hai di nuovo, buffon?' or what's new with Rigoletto - Cormac Newark
13. Verdi's Don Carlos: an overview of the opera - Harold Powers
14. Desdemona's alienation and Otello's fall - Scott L. Balthazar Part IV. Creation and Critical Reception: 15. An introduction to Verdi's working methods - Luke Jensen
16. Verdi criticism - Gregory Harwood List of Verdi's operas
Notes
Verdi's Works
Bibliography
Index. |
