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Verdi's Requiem: Nothing Sacred; On Centennial, Exploring Myths Behind the Music
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If a requiem looms large among a composer's works, especially one
written near the end of his or her life or in a morbid frame of mind,
it inevitably becomes an unofficial, autobiographical epitaph.
Mozart's Requiem is interpreted as Mozart on the subject of Mozart's
death; and Verdi's Requiem, which the Washington Opera will perform
at Constitution Hall on Saturday, is in danger of becoming Verdi on
the subject of Verdi's death.
It isn't, and it's a romantic conceit even in the case of Mozart
to read a requiem as anything more than a setting of the Catholic
liturgy for the dead. But with ...
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DE PROFUNDIS : Verdi's searing 'Requiem'.(composition and musical elements of work by composer Giuseppe Verdi)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Commonweal
; ...hundredth anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901), widely commemorated in the...Requiem has been called--only half jokingly-- Verdi's greatest opera. Operatic or not, the...such as works by Pergolesi or Rossini), Verdi's Requiem resists excerpting, and contains...
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Verdi's Theater. Creating Drama Through Music.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...together. The author's argument rests on the hypothesis that Verdi's evolution as a dramatist can be best explained as a gradual...that trace the evolution of specific themes and figures in Verdi's oeuvre, such as 'Revenge and curse', 'The sorceress...discussion, and, as with Piero Weiss's widely read article ...
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Manzoni e Bossuet.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; Manzoni e Bossuet. By Luciano Parisi. (Saggi e testi di letteratura...88-7694-673-x. Luciano Parisi's philosophical study of Manzoni (1785-1873) and Bossuet (1627-1704) proposes to analyse...philosopher on the literary output of the Italian author. Manzoni's first biographers, Cantu, Giorgini, and his ...
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Two Recent Translations of Manzoni's Plays.(Alessandro Manzoni, Two Plays; The Count of Carmagnola and Adelchis)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Italica
; ...entirely welcome has happened recently to Manzoni's reception in this country. Echoing the...sposi (The Betrothed, 1950) and his study, Manzoni and His Times (1954), in the last five...publication of two bilingual versions of Manzoni's tragedies: Two Plays, translated by...
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Verdi: Don Carlo. (Metropolitan Opera conducted by James Levine)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...nonsense has been written about Giuseppe Verdi, right down to the critic Edward Dent...driving foreign rulers off Italian soil. Verdi himself, who could inveigh strongly against...Italian style that stemmed from Monteverdi. Verdi was criticized by some for the great outpouring...
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Verdi: La Traviata. (Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala conducted by Ricardo Muti)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...nonsense has been written about Giuseppe Verdi, right down to the critic Edward Dent...driving foreign rulers off Italian soil. Verdi himself, who could inveigh strongly against...Italian style that stemmed from Monteverdi. Verdi was criticized by some for the great outpouring...
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Beethoven: Opus III. (pianist Paul Badura-Skoda)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...nonsense has been written about Giuseppe Verdi, right down to the critic Edward Dent...driving foreign rulers off Italian soil. Verdi himself, who could inveigh strongly against...Italian style that stemmed from Monteverdi. Verdi was criticized by some for the great outpouring...
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Liszt: Sonata in B Minor. (pianist Emanuel Ax)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...nonsense has been written about Giuseppe Verdi, right down to the critic Edward Dent...driving foreign rulers off Italian soil. Verdi himself, who could inveigh strongly against...Italian style that stemmed from Monteverdi. Verdi was criticized by some for the great outpouring...
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Debussy: Complete Works for Solo Piano. (Paul Crossley)
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...nonsense has been written about Giuseppe Verdi, right down to the critic Edward Dent...driving foreign rulers off Italian soil. Verdi himself, who could inveigh strongly against...Italian style that stemmed from Monteverdi. Verdi was criticized by some for the great outpouring...
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The Master's Voice: Noel Coward, 1928-1953.
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...nonsense has been written about Giuseppe Verdi, right down to the critic Edward Dent...driving foreign rulers off Italian soil. Verdi himself, who could inveigh strongly against...Italian style that stemmed from Monteverdi. Verdi was criticized by some for the great outpouring...
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