Verdi in America : "Oberto" through "Rigoletto"

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Verdi in America : "Oberto" through "Rigoletto"

George W. Martin

(Eastman studies in music)

University of Rochester Press, 2011

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Verdi in America : Oberto through Rigoletto

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-455) and index

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A renowned Verdi authority offers here the often-astounding first history of how Verdi's early operas -- including one of his great masterpieces, Rigoletto -- made their way into America's musical life. The operas of Giuseppe Verdi stand at the center of today's operatic repertoire, and have done so for more than a century. The story of how the reputation and wide appeal of these operas spread from Western Europe throughout the world has long needed to be told. This latest book by noted Verdi authority George W. Martin, Verdi in America: Oberto through Rigoletto, specifically details the changing fortunes of Verdi's early operas in the theaters andconcert halls of the United States. Among the important works whose fates Martin traces are Nabucco, Attila, Ernani, Macbeth (in its original version), Luisa Miller, and one of Verdi's immortal masterpieces: Rigoletto, denounced in 1860 as the epitome of immorality. Martin also explores the astonishing revival of many of these operas in the 1940s and onward (including Macbeth in its revised version of 1865), and the first American productions-sometimes in small opera houses outside the main circuit of some Verdi operas that had never previously managed to cross the Atlantic. Extensive quotations from newspaper reviews testify tothe eventual triumph of these remarkable works. They also reveal the crucial shifts in tastes and expectations that have occurred from Verdi's day to our own. Independent scholar George W. Martin is the author of several books on Italian opera, including Verdi, His Music, Life and Times, Verdi at the Golden Gate: Opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush Years, and Aspects of Verdi.

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Introduction Nabucco I Lombardi alla prima crociata Ernani I due Foscari Attila Macbeth The Country's Growth Stimulates Opera I masnadieri Jerusalem Luisa Miller Rigoletto Opera on Tour and the Rise of Regional Companies Oberto Un giorno di regno Giovanna d'Arco Alzira Il corsaro La battaglia di Legnano Stiffelio Appendix A: The Operas, Their World, Western Hemisphere, and U.S. Premieres Appendix B: The Swift Spread of Ernani Appendix C: Dollar Values and Populations Appendix D: The San Carlo Touring Company: Repertory and Number ofPerformances, 1913/14 through 1928/29 Appendix E: Number of Performances of Verdi's Operas at the Metropolitan, 1883/84 through 2008/9 Appendix F: An Arrangement, a Reduction, and the Score as Written: Stiffelio

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