Record details

• ISBN: 9781681777689
• ISBN: 1681777681
• Physical Description: print
  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".

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Subject:

Verdi, Giuseppe 1813-1901

Composers Italy Biography

Genre:

Biographies.