Verdi's Theater. Creating Drama Through Music.(Review)

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Verdi's Theater: Creating Drama Through Music. By GILLES DE VAN. Transl. by Gilda Roberts. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 1998. 424 pp. 47.95 [pounds sterling] (19.95 [pounds sterling] paperbound).

Verdi's Theater is the English translation of an abridged and slightly revised version of Verdi: Un Theatre en musique, published by Fayard in 1992 and translated into Italian in its entirety in 1994 (Florence: La Nuova Italia). Let me immediately reassure English-speaking readers: the author's interventions have definitely improved the book. The ...

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