Books about 1813 Wagner & Verdi

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 comfort to mankind; it pleased

Verdi ist neben Mozart und Wagner der populärste Komponist des Musiktheaters. Die Autoren stellen exemplarisch sein Werk und dessen Bedeutung dar: Herkunft, Entwicklung, Dramaturgie, Form, Ästhetik und Rezeption.

What happens when operas that are comfortably ensconced in the canon are thoroughly rethought and radically recast on stage? What does a staging do to our understanding of an opera, and of opera generally? While a stage production can disrupt a work that was thought to be established, David J.

They were the greatest and most famous rivals of the 19th century. Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner were for almost a hundred years the two pillars of opera within Europe but not only. Two immense geniuses who never met, never spoke to each other and never wrote each other a