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Verdi, Giuseppe - Otello (Overture ENO Guide)
Catalogue No: 9780714544113
Revised version of the ENO Opera Guides originally published by John Calder.
Includes original text of the libretto facing a literal English translation.
- Expert Aricles on the opera and its performance history.
- Original text of the libretto facing a literal English translation.
- Black and white pictures
- Thematic guide to the score
- Bibliography & discography
- New Paperback | 80 pp.
- ISBN: 9780714544113
- Published: 2011
Winton Dean relates how Otello came into being as much because of the persistence of Verdi’s publisher as of the composer’s lifelong passion for Shakespeare, and the collaboration of the brilliant poet Arrigo Boito. Benedict Sarnaker argues that this magnificent largescale opera rivals Shakespeare in intensity and profundity. William Weaver’s lively review of Shakespeare on the Italian stage in the last century enables us to make a wholly fresh appraisal of Verdi’s stature as a dramatist. The libretto itself is a masterpiece, and Andrew Porter has also translated the third-act revision which Verdi came to prefer and which has not been performed outside France before the 1981 ENO production.
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'Brilliantly produced and superb value.' Sunday Times
'All these will provide the new opera-goer with food for thought.' Daily Telegraph
'Wholehearted recommendation of this valuable new series.' TLS
English National Opera Guide Number 7