Complete Operas of Verdi

by Charles Osborne

Book Overview

The Complete Operas of Verdi is the first full-length study of all of Verdi's operas. This work of the brilliant British music critic Charles Osborne covers Verdi's complete operatic oeuvre--including... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306800721
• ISBN13: 9780306800726
• Release Date: August 1977
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 486 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

An indispensible source for the serious student of Verdi.

I came to this site as the result of the last Texaco Metropolitan Opera broadcast. A listener had submitted a three-part question based on her study of Charles Osborne's Complete Operas of Verdi. She referred to it as a three volume work. I immediately became excited as the edition that I own is a single work. I therefore imagined that there was a new edition. It did occur to me, however, that as this listener is in England, she might just be in posession of a different version of the same book (which I now presume to be the case). I have owned a copy of this work for over ten years. Having read the work from cover to cover several times, I cannot begin to guess how many times I have referred to individual chapters for reference. Mr. Osborne writes in a style which is easy to read for the Opera fanatic, as well as the scholar. The work contains chapters on each of Verdi's operas (including those which are relatively obscure in The United States). He gives background on the original sources as well as the contemporary historic events of the time. I reccommend this book without reservation.

Translation into Dutch

This book is for me, being a Verdi fan ever since, that important that I am translating it from the English into Dutch language, in the first place for myself, and also to be able to give some more information to my fellowmembers of our amateur operasinging company.