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Verdi, Giuseppe - Falstaff (Overture ENO Guide)
Catalogue No: 9780714544144
- 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 | 128 pp.
- ISBN: 9780714544144
- Published: 2011
‘A lyric comedy unlike any other,’ wrote Verdi about his last opera. That the last work of a composer who was almost notorious for his preference for tragic and gloomy subjects should be a brilliant human comedy was and remains one of the wonders of music. Michael Rose considers its status in Italian comic opera tradition. Davis Cairns pours his enthusiasm for the piece into a detailed and illuminating musical analysis. Andrew Porter, whose translation almost matches Boito’s original libretto for elegance and wit, explains the challenges and risks of the undertaking in his fascinating introduction.
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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
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English National Opera Guide Number 10