The Cambridge Companion to Verdi

CONTENIDO:
List of music examples
List of tables
Notes on contributors
Preface
Chronology
Part I. Personal, Cultural, and Political Context:
1. Verdi's life: a thematic biography Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
2. The Italian theater of Verdi's day Alessandro Roccatagliati
3. Verdi, Italian Romanticism and the Risorgimento Mary Ann Smart
Part II. The Style of Verdi's Operas and Non-Operatic Works:
4. The forms of set pieces Scott L. Balthazar
5. New currents in the libretto Fabrizio della Seta
6. Words and music Emanuele Senici
7. French influences Andreas Giger
8. Structural coherence Steven Huebner
9. Instrumental music in Verdi's operas David Kimbell
10. Verdi's non-operatic works Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Part III. Essays on Representative Operas:
11. Ernani: the tenor in transformation Rosa Solinas
12. 'Ch'hai di nuovo, buffon?' or what's new with Rigoletto Cormac Newark
13. Verdi's Don Carlos: an overview of the opera Harold Powers
14. Desdemona's alienation and Otello's fall Scott L. Balthazar
Part IV. Creation and Critical Reception:
15. An introduction to Verdi's working methods Luke Jensen
16. Verdi criticism Gregory Harwood
List of Verdi's operas
Notes
Verdi's works
Bibliography
Index