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Il Trovatore - English National Opera Guide 20 (includes libretto)
Giuseppe Verdi Price: $19.95
‘If I were not afraid of being called Utopian, I should be tempted
to say that to reach perfection in a musical work a single mind
should create the verses and the music’ - not Wagner, but Cammarano
to Verdi as he worked on the libretto of Il Trovatore
Marcello Conati of the Institute for Verdi Studies points out that, although audiences have always adored it, critics are only now coming to see that it represents a step forward, and by no means a step back, from the revolutionary drama of Rigoletto, completed a year before
Professor D.R.B. Kimbell, an expert on Verdi’s music, clarifies the story and takes us through the score, while Professor Donald Shaw examines the unusual symbolism of the Spanish Romantic movement
Il Trovatore may cry out to be approached just as a theatrical experience, but these essays give brief and valuable insights into the type of drama it is, and the way it works
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
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