Verdi's MacBeth

Rosen, David; Porter, Andrew (eds.)

ISBN 10: 0393950735 / ISBN 13: 9780393950731

Published by W.W. Norton & Company, NY, 1984

About this Item

First printing of this scholarly, comprehensive study of all things related to Verdi's opera Macbeth. Spine ends are lightly bumped otherwise fine in a dustjacket that has a small corner crease to the inside front flap otherwise fine. Not priceclipped and no markings. Text in Italian and English. (box 124).

Seller Inventory # 013771

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Verdi's MacBeth
• Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company, NY
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393950735
• ISBN 13: 9780393950731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Criticism and Reference
  • Music, Movies, Art, Etc.

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Synopsis

This book, a unique collection of speculation and documentation, grew out of the Fifth International Verdi Congress held in Danville, Kentucky, in 1977, where the 1847 version of Macbetb was performed. Macbetb was the first of Verdi’s three Shakespeare operas, ‘Dearer to me than all my other operas’, as he wrote when dedicating the score of the new work to his benefactor, Barezzi. Many of the papers given at the congress are incorporated into the present volume, which focuses on the myriad ways Verdi fused libretto, music and staging into a powerful theatrical experience. The contents include much contemporary documentation about the 186 letters, reviews of the first performance and the 1865 revision, and a scholarly transcription of Verdi’s working libretto. There is also a chronology of performances of Macbetb and an annotated bibliography.