ISBN10: 1580463886, ISBN13: 9781580463881, [publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, Rochester] Hardcover Hardcover. 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 ...

Rochester, N.Y. : |Woodbridge Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2011 Hard cover New in new dust jacket.

ISBN10: 1580463886, ISBN13: 9781580463881, [publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2011-09-01, Rochester, N.Y. :|Woodbridge] Hardcover Language: ENG
[London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]