Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism

David R. B. Kimbell

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.

Obsah

• 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
• 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
• 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
• Notes: 657
• Bibliography: 692
• Index: 697
• 445: 698
• 516: 699
• 642: 703

Bibliografické údaje

• Název: Verdi in the Age of Italian Romanticism
• Autor: David R. B. Kimbell
• Vydání: ilustrované vydání
• Vydavatel: CUP Archive, 1981
• ISBN: 0521230527, 9780521230520
• Délka: Počet stran: 736