Author

Publication

1997 - Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J, New Jersey

Language

English

Word Count

46,750 words, Guess

Page Count

187 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads2472001
  • LibraryThing2965426

Classifications

  • DDC782.1/092
  • LCCML410.V4 P155 1997

Description

In these essays, Roger Parker brings valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an operagoer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends. Parker explores works like Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La forza del destino, and Falstaff from a variety of angles, and addresses such contentious topics as the composer's involvement with Italian politics, the possibilities of an "authentic" staging of his work, and the advantages and pitfalls of analyzing his operas according to terms that his contemporaries might have understood.

Subjects

Topics

Opera782.1/092Opera, italyMl410.v4 p155 1997Verdi, giuseppe, 1813-1901Opera--italy--19th centuryCriticism and interpretation

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Times

Series Statement

  • Princeton studies in opera

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