| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 18 min.)) : digital. |
| Performer |
Read by David Timson. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
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Operas -- Stories, plots, etc.
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Operas -- Excerpts.
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| Added Author |
Timson, David.
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Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901.
Falstaff. Selections.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Verdi falstaff |
| ISBN |
9781843793274 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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184379327X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11137468 |
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