Verdi's Macbeth : a sourcebook / edited by David Rosen with Andrew Porter.
| Other author | Rosen, David, 1938- editor. |
| Other author | Porter, Andrew, 1928-2015, editor. |
| Other author | American Institute for Verdi Studies. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : W.W. Norton & Company, ©1984. |
| Description | xvi, 527 pages : illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Preface / Martin Chusid -- Introduction / Andrew Porter -- Letters and other documents -- The Danville papers: Florence, 1847. José Verdi, Hercules Cavalli, and the Florence Macbeth / Mary Jane Phillips Matz ; Verdi's Macbeth and the Florentine critics / Leonardo Pinzauti -- Verdi, Shakespeare, and the libretto. The Shakespeare Verdi knew / William Weaver -- Madness, hallucination, and sleepwalking / Jonas Barish ; Observations on the genesis of Verdi's Macbeth / Francesco Degrada -- Paris, 1865. The Verdi-Escudier correspondence about Macbeth / Ursula Günther -- Macbeth in Paris: new iconographical documents / H. Robert Cohen -- Composition and performance. Toward a critical edition of Macbeth / Philip Gossett -- Observations on the autograph of Macbeth I / David Lawton -- Macbeth: notes on the instrumentation of the two versions / Julian Budden -- Aspects of the production of Macbeth / Marcello Conati -- Vocal gesture in Verdi's Macbeth / Marilyn Feller Somville -- Translating Macbeth / Andrew Porter -- Essays in analysis. Evil, guilt, and the supernatural in Verdi's Macbeth: toward an understanding of the tonal structure and key symbolism / Martin Chusid -- On the tonal organization of Macbeth II / Daniel Sabbeth -- Macbeth, Attila, and Verdi's self-modeling / Gary Tomlinson -- The banquet scene from Verdi's Macbeth: an experiment in large-scale musical form / John Knowles -- Documents: Publication history. The autograph and the early editions / Martin Chusid -- The libroni, and additional notes on Ricordi publications of Macbeth / David Rosen -- The libretto. The "Scala" Macbeth libretto: a genetic edition / Francesco Degrada -- The 1865 libretto drafts. A note on Shakespeare's Macbeth / August Wilhelm Schlegel -- The preface in the Ricordi libretto. Verdi and the Italian translations of Shakespeare's Macbeth / Andrew Porter -- A note on censorship. Macbetto: ballo mimico in cinque atti (excerpt) / Luigi Henry -- Intermezzo: Two great ladies. Adelaide Ristori ; Pauline Viardot -- Reviews and other published commentary: Macbeth I. The Florence premiere, 1847, and some later productions -- Interlude: the abortive Théâtre-Italien production -- Macbeth II. The Paris premiere, 1865 -- Five figurini (costume designs) for Macbeth -- A note by "Folchetto" -- Macbeth, from studio sulle opere di Giuseppe Verdi / by Abramo Basevi ; translated by Edward Schneider -- Appendices: A hundred years of Macbeth: performances and casts / Tom Kaufman and others -- Other music for Macbeth -- Macbeth on records -- Glossary -- Personalia -- A table of revisions and a concordance of four piano-vocal scores / Martin Chusid -- The 1847 libretto -- Pages from the 1847 Macbeth: piano-vocal score. Grand duet (Act I, excerpt) ; "Trionfai" (Act II) ; The banquet scene (excerpt) ; The apparitions scene (excerpt) ; "Vada in fiamme" (Act III) ; The exiles' chorus (Act IV) ; Macbeth's death scene (Act IV). |
| Abstract | This book, a unique collection of speculation and documentation, grew out of the Fifth International Verdi Congress held in Danville, Kentucky, in 1977, where the 1847 version of Macbeth was performed. Macbeth was the first of Verdi's three Shakespeare operas, 'Dearer to me than all my other operas', as he wrote when dedicating the score of the new work to his benefactor, Barezzi. Many of the papers given at the congress are incorporated into the present volume, which focuses on the myriad ways Verdi fused libretto, music, and staging into a powerful theatrical experience. The contents include much contemporary documentation about the opera: 186 letters, reviews of the first performance and the 1865 revision, and a scholarly transcription of Verdi's working libretto. There is also a chronology of performances of Macbeth and an annotated bibliography. |
| General note | In part a collection of papers delivered at the Fifth International Congress of Verdi Studies, 1977, held under the auspices of the American Institute for Verdi Studies. |
| General note | Includes pages from the 1847 vocal score of Macbeth containing the principal episodes revised and recomposed in 1865. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 464) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 81001495 |
| ISBN | 0393950735 |
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