Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest operatic composers of their time, had everything and nothing in common. Their achievements were comparable, but their personalities, their approaches to music and drama, and their complex legacies made them incompatible. Verdi thought of art as a c[...]

Opera is a fragile, complex art, but it flourished extravagantly in San Francisco during the Gold Rush years, a time when daily life in the city was filled with gambling, duels, murder, and suicide. In the history of the United States there has never been a rougher town than Gold Rush San Francisco,[...]

A compact, up-to-date guide to the history and construction of Verdi's last - and possibly greatest - opera.[...]

Verdi?s Messa da Requiem is one of the most frequently performed works of the choral repertoire, and one of Verdi?s most important non-operatic works. This new handbook offers an up-to-date account of the work?s genesis, its performance history, and issues regarding performing practice. The central [...]

This Companion provides a biographical, theatrical, and social-cultural background for Verdi?s music, examines in detail important general aspects of its style and method of composing, and synthesizes stylistic themes in discussions of representative works. Aspects of Verdi?s milieu, style, creative[...]

(Note-for-Note Keyboard Transcriptions). Authentic transcriptions right off the recordings of these 35 all-time rock classics: Beth * Bloody Well Right * Changes * Cold as Ice * Come Sail Away * Don't Do Me like That * Green-Eyed Lady * Hard to Handle * Heaven * Killer Queen * King of Pain * Lady M[...]

(Vocal Score). Italian/English. Translated by Heuffer.

(Study Score). This newly released edition of Verdi's masterwork has a beautiful color cover and a plot synopsis in English. Sewn binding.[...]

Aida is, for most of us, the quintessence of Ancient Egypt but it is certainly not just for archaeologists. Michael Rose points out that it is really about patriotism - an issue of burning importance to Verdi and his contemporaries. Music critic William Mann reflects that even a short look at the sc[...]

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was the Shakespeare of opera, the composer of Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida and Otello. The chorus of Hebrew slaves from Nabucco (1842) is regarded in Italy as virtually an alternative national anthem - and the great tragedian rounded off his career fifty year[...]

Susan Rutherford explores Verdi's operas in the context of women's social, cultural and political history in nineteenth-century Italy.[...]