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Verdi : the man revealed / John Suchet.

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  • ISBN: 9781681777689
  • ISBN: 1681777681
  • Physical Description: 279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Pegagus Books edition
  • Publisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2018.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-271) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Confused beginnings -- A father and his daughter -- "He is a rude, uncivil scoundrel" -- Intolerable losses -- Another loss and a fiasco -- "Little by little the opera was composed" -- The galley years -- "Signore Maestro" -- Verdi, man of property -- Queen Victoria is not amused -- "The hour of liberation has sounded" -- Verdi sets tongues wagging -- The opera is "repugnant, immortal, obscene" -- A rift in the Verdi family -- A question of identity -- "Without you, I am a body without a soul" -- The Bear of Busseto -- Verdi, gentleman farmer -- "Verdi is my tyrant" -- A wedding at last -- A soprano impresses Verdi -- "I am an almost perfect Wagnerian" -- An opera for Cairo -- "The all-powerful corruptor of Italian artistic taste" -- Scandal and comedy -- "One button more, one button less".
Subject:
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Composers > Italy > Biography.
Genre:
Biographies.

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