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The operas of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi are among the greatest achievements of nineteenth century culture and remain at the heart of the opera repertory today. His extraordinary works took the opera world by storm, transforming and dominating the world of opera for over 30 years. Verdi modified the rigid conventions of the bel canto style, which had previously depended on the showcasing of singers at the expense of dramatic values. He changed...
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4 videodiscs (630 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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This miniseries, filmed in Leningrad, London, Paris, and Verdi's home region of Italy's Po Valley, required more than 100 actors, 1800 extras, and over 4000 costumes. The program gives a complete overview of Verdi's life and is filled with music from the composer's works sung in the original Italian and taken from past rare recordings featuring such opera artists as Renata Tebaldi, Maria Callas, Luciano Pavarotti, and Birgit Nilsson.
4) Aida
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141 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 18 cm + 2 audio discs (140 min., 45 sec. : digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
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English
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Contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and Italian and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in Italian.
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279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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English
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Giuseppe Verdi remains the greatest operatic composer that Italy, the home of opera, has ever produced. Yet throughout his lifetime he claimed to detest composing and repeatedly rejected it. He was a landowner, a farmer, a politician and symbol of Italian independence; but his music tells a different story. An obsessive perfectionist, Verdi drove collaborators to despair but his works lauded from the start as dazzling feats of composition and characterization....
11) La traviata
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Italiano
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A revival of Richard Eyre's 1994 production of Verdi's opera tells the tragic tale of Violetta, who is dying of consumption and leaves her beloved Alfredo at the request of his father, only to be reunited with him shortly before her death.
15) Otello
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Arturo Toscanini collection volume 58
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2 audio discs (approximately 125 min.) : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.
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Italiano
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G. Schirmer's collection of opera librettos volume ed. 2518
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vii, 25, 25 pages ; 27 cm.
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English
20) Simon Boccanegra
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2 audio discs (137 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
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Italiano
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