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Title: Verdi: A Biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, Andrew Porter ISBN: 0-19-816600-1 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Viva Verdi in this magisterial and definitive tome!
Comment: Viva Verdi is the opera lover's response to this magisterial work by Phillips-Matz. Her years of research has produced a detailed life of Verd. The author traces the family lineage of Verdi in Bussetto, chronicles the genesis of his operatic masterpieces and delves into the private life of the greatest Italian opera composer of the nineteenth century.
I dove into this huge book during Christmas 2002. The book will immerse you in the life of the complicated composer detailing his relationships, his tragedies and triumphs. The book
is essential to anyone interested in knowing more about Verdi and his times. The book is not easy reading but is worthwhile for the time it takes to peruse it. Viva Phillips-Matz on a superb biography!
Rating: 5
Summary: What else would you need to know?
Comment: I have just finished reading this book. It was my intention to get the bits and pieces I have been taught over the years about Verdi together in order to teach a short course on him in January 2000. It has done so much more. If you're looking for a book that details the opera plots and offers translations of the librettos, this isn't it. But if you're looking for a great summary of what we know about this truly great man, his friends and enemies, his work habits, his interests in farming and charity, the gestation and difficult birth of his operas and other words -- and what we *don't* know, things that might still be discovered -- you've come to the right place. It has NEVER taken me so long to read a book because the pages are so densely detailed. That being said, I am very glad that I did. VERY glad. Here is a hero for the ages, pace his operas.
Rating: 5
Summary: The definitive biography of Verdi
Comment: I can't imagine a more complete collection of information about Verdi's long and productive life. Phillips-Matz captures the feeling of mid-century Italy and among other things she shows how Verdi became a hero in the movement culminating in Italian statehood. Viva Verdi!
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Title: Rossini by Gaia Servadio, Gala Servadio ISBN: 0786711957 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Puccini: A Biography by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, William Weaver ISBN: 1555535305 Publisher: Northeastern University Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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