Verdi's OTELLO: Opera Study Guide with Libretto (Opera Classics Library S.) - Softcover

Fisher, Burton D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1930841450 ISBN 13: 9781930841451

Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing, 2005

Synopsis

A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE AND LIBRETTO of Verdi’s OTELLO, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; a newly translated LIBRETTO with Italian and English translation side-by-side, with Music Highlight Examples; and Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis.

About this title

From the Back Cover

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. Winton Dean relates how Otello came into being as much because of the persistance of Verdi's publisher as of the composer's lifelong passion for Shakespeare, and the collaboration of the brilliant poet Arrigo Boito. Benedict Sarnaker argues that this magnificent large-scale opera rivals Shakespeare in intensity and profundity. William Weaver's lively review of Shakespeare on the Italian stage in the last century enables us to make a wholly fresh appraisal of Verdi's stature as a dramatist. The libretto itself is a masterpiece and Andrew Porter has also translated the third act revision which Verdi came to prefer and which has not been performed outside France before the 1981 ENO production.

Synopsis

A comprehensive guide to Verdi's 'Otello', featuring a newly translated Libretto (with music examples), Principal Characters, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples, a Discography, a Videography, a Dictionary of Opera and Musical Terms, and insightful Commentary and Analysis of the opera.

Edition details

• Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1930841450
• ISBN 13: 9781930841451
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 132