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Title: Otello in Full Score by Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 0-486-25040-7 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 February, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Verdi's finest
Comment: One sleepy afternoon in Sant' Agata, Giuseppe Verdi's estate, Arrigo Boito, Verdi's former rival, came to call. He was there to ask Verdi to set two libretti he'd written on Shakespearean subjects to music. The request was, indeed, a great shock to both Boito and Verdi. Boito had, for many years, insisted that Verdi's work, in light of Wagner's innovations, was no longer of any importance. Yet with these libretti, Boito recognized the truth. Simply put, Verdi, and only Verdi, could compose these operas, and if Verdi would do so, the results would be monumental. Boy, what an understatement. Otello drips with innovation. It takes Wagner's techniques and applies them to Italian opera in an Italian way. The chromaticism, the leitmotifs, the thick orchestration, they are all there, but with an Italian sensibility. It also testifies not only to Verdi's great love of Shakespeare, but his depth of understanding Shakespeare, as well. This score "roars loud, and thunders in the index." Dover's edition is a reprint of an early Ricordi editon. Ricordi is the best source for Verdi, indeed all late romantic Italian opera, simply because Ricordi specialized in late Romantic Italian Opera, and understood the composers' wishes vis a vis their scores. For example, Giovanni Ricordi and Verdi, were good friends. The Dover edition is well crafted, easy to read, and printed on acid free paper, so it is resistant to fading. The score may be too big, and this book too small, to make it useful for the podium. Still, for the student and lover of opera, it is the non pareil.
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Title: La Traviata in Full Score by Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 0486263215 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1990 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Flying Dutchman in Full Score by Richard Wagner ISBN: 0486256294 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 May, 1988 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
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Title: Aida in Full Score by Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 0486261727 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Un Ballo in Maschera in Full Score by Giuseppe Verdi ISBN: 0486291413 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 21 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Rigoletto (Black Dog Opera Library) by Giuseppe Verdi, Daniel Brink ISBN: 1579120474 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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