Verdi

Author: Zhao Xiaoping, Yang Ping
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2000-03-01
Features: The series selects some famous composers from the history of Western music as subjects, with each volume dedicated to one composer. It records their life stories and interesting anecdotes, traces their growth experiences, appraises their representative musical works, and introduces some rare CD editions for music enthusiasts to reference when collecting. The main content of this book includes:
- A brief biography of Verdi
- Verdi's childhood
- The challenging youth
- Early success in Milan
- Verdi's self-proclaimed "years of hard labor"
- The peak of his creative period and his second marriage
- Verdi in his later years
- Appreciation of Verdi's major opera works:
- La Traviata
- Othello
- Rigoletto (also known as Il Trovatore)
- Aida
- Un ballo in maschera (also known as Masquerade)
Appendix:
- A chronological table of Verdi's major works
- Brief introductions to selected CD recordings of Verdi's works:
- La Traviata
- Othello
- Rigoletto
- Un ballo in maschera
- Aida
- Don Carlo
- Quattro Monti
- Luisa Miller
- Macbeth
- Requiem
- Opera Arias, Vol. 1 & 2
- Choral Works Collection
- Overtures and Preludes Collection