Title: Verdi in the age of Italian romanticism /
Authors: Kimbell, David R. B.
Date: 1981
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: ix, 703 pages : music ; 24 cm
Language: English
LC classification: M
Contents: Verdi's Italy -- Theatrical censorship -- The operatic experience -- Dramatic principles and musical form in early ottocento opera -- Launching a career -- The genesis of an opera : Ernani -- Two overcrowded years -- Verdi the idealist : the Florence Macbeth -- Opera as a business -- Collaboration with Cammarano -- Bouts with the censor -- Guseppina's operas : Il Trovatore and La Traviata -- The first operas : Oberto and Un Giorno di regno -- Italian grand opera : Nabucco and I Lombardi -- The early "galley" operas : Ernani to Attila -- Verdi à la parisienne : Jérusalem and La Battagalia di Legnano -- Luisa Miller and Stiffelio -- "The popular trilogy" : Rigloetto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata -- Nabucco : a risorgimento opera -- Verdi and French romanticism : Ernani -- Byronismo : I due Foscari and Il Corsaro -- The impact of Shakespeare : the Florence Macbeth -- La Battaglia di Legnano : the opera of the revolution -- Essays with Schiller -- The originality of Rigoletto -- Verdi and "realism" : La Traviata.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.