Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Naxos : Made available through hoopla, 2004
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 18 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781843793274 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11137468, 184379327X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11137468
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by David Timson
Verdi's Falstaff repays careful study with real pleasure. It is opera's happiest irony that the great Italian master should cap a career - distinguished for its blood-and-thunder tragic masterpieces - with the greatest comic opera in the Italian repertory. The genius of Shakespeare is harnessed (in a miracle of compression) by master-librettist Boito to give the eighty-year-old Verdi a superb libretto, on which he lavished more wonderful tunes than most composers manage in a lifetime. Falstaff is the last great Italian comic opera and a worthy end to the tradition
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