The operas of Verdi

Author(s)

• Budden, Julian

Bibliographic Information

The operas of Verdi

Julian Budden

Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1992

Rev. ed

• v. 1
• v. 2
• v. 3

Note

Include bibliographical reference and indexes

Vol.1:From Oberto to Rigoletto. v.2:From Il trovatore to La forza del destino. v.3:From Don Carlos to Falstaff

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

v. 1 ISBN 9780198162612

Description

This is the first volume of Julian Budden's monumental three-volume survey of the operas of Verdi. Hailed on publication for its extraordinary comprehensibility, the set has become the classic reference work on its subject. For this new edition the author has made a host of corrections throughout, and updated the text in the light of recent scholarship. Volume I traces the organic growth and development of the composer's style from 1839 to 1851 - from the first opera, Oberto, to the seventeenth, Rigoletto. Budden examines each opera in detail with a full account of its dramatic and historical origins and a brief critical evaluation. More than 350 musical examples point to the significance of the early operas in Verdi's developing style.

Table of Contents

• Verdi and the world of the Primo Ottocento
• characteristics of the early operas
• "Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio"
• "Un Giorno di Regno"
• "Nabucco"
• "I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata"
• "Ernani"
• "I Due Foscari"
• "Giovanna d'Arco"
• "Alzira"
• "Attila"
• "Macbeth"
• "I Masnadieri"
• "Jerusalem"
• "Il Corsaro"
• "La Battaglia di Legano"
• "Luisa Miller"
• "Stiffelio"
• "Rigoletto".

Volume

v. 2 ISBN 9780198162629

Description

This is the second volume of Julian Budden's monumental three-volume survey of the operas of Verdi. Hailed on publication for its extraordinary comprehensibility, the set has become the classic reference work on its subject. For this new edition the author has made a host of corrections throughout, and updated the text in the light of recent scholarship. Volume 2 covers those works written during the decadence of the post-Rossini period. During this time, Verdi, having exhausted the vein of simple lyricism to be found in Il Trovatore and La Traviata, achieved self-renewal in direct confrontation with the masters of the Paris Opera with his Les Vepres Siciliennes. A new scale and variety of musical thought can be sensed in the Italian operas that follow, culminating in La Forza del Destino.

Table of Contents

• The collapse of a tradition
• formation of the mature style
• "Il Trovatore"
• "La Traviata"
• "Les Vespres Siciliennes"
• "Simon Boccanegra"
• "Aroldo"
• "Un Ballo in Maschera"
• "La Forza del Destino".

Volume

v. 3 ISBN 9780198162636

Description

This is the third volume of Julian Budden's monumental three-volume survey of the operas of Verdi. Hailed on publication for its extraordinary comprehensibility, the set has become the classic reference work on its subject. For this new edition the author has made a host of corrections throughout, and updated the text in the light of recent scholarship. Volume 3 covers roughly a quarter of a century, a period which saw grand opera on the Parisian model established throughout Italy, the reform of the Conservatories, and the spread of cosmopolitan influences to an extent that convinced many that Italian music was losing its identity. Verdi produced his four last and greatest operas - Don Carlos, Aida, Otello, and Falstaff - in this period, which ended with the advent of `verisimo', in which a new, recognizably Italian idiom was inaugurated. This volume also includes a new and substantial bibliography by Roger Parker.

Table of Contents

• "Don Carlos"
• "Aida"
• a problem of identity
• "Otello"
• "Falstaff".

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Details

• NCID: BA19933520
• ISBN:
  • 0198162618
  • 0198162626
  • 0198162634
• LCCN: 91036272
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire],New York
• Pages/Volumes: 3 v.
• Size: 24 cm
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Operas