The Verdi Baritone: Studies in the Development of Dramatic Character

... a well-written, practical, and carefully documented source for character development... The Verdi Baritone offers a unique, and uniquely qualified, discourse on a much too often overlooked aspect of the operas."―The Opera Journal... a series of beautifully written and carefully argued monographs on baritone roles... "―ChoiceFrom the professional performer to the opera afficiando, every reader will gain unexpected insights into Verdi’s dramatic and musical genius. The Verdi Baritone is a vitally important and necessary contribution to the literature." ―Journal of SingingThe Verdi Baritone explores the unfolding of seven of the most complex and challenging operatic roles, revealing the way these roles were conceived and executed: Nabucco, Ernani, Macbeth, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Simon Boccanegra, and Otello. Voice students, professional performers, and their teachers and coaches, as well as opera lovers, will gain insight into Verdi’s masterful use of text, music, and staging to portray each character’s inner self.

Biographies & Memoirs

Edwards, Ryan

Edwards, Geoffrey

Arts & Literature

Indiana University Press

One of the most significant innovations in the development of dramatic characterization in nineteenth-century Italian opera was the genesis of the Verdi baritone. As Geoffrey Edwards and Ryan Edwards argue, the composer's baritone characters embody ""a quintessential humanity, expressing needs and temptations, confusions and understandings, griefs and joys that transcend the particulars of time and place."" Often far removed from ordinary life in either the nineteenth century or today, these roles provide insight into the ""struggle of the individual in a universe that is often beyond control and even comprehension."" The authors provide an unprecedented and probing discussion of the way Verdi's baritone roles were conceived and executed. They analyze the composer's use of ""the unique potential of the baritone voice to create a gallery of subtly nuanced characters that are among the most complex and challenging in the operatic repertory."" This eloquent volume explores the unfolding of the baritone roles in seven operas, starting with Verdi's early triumph, Nabucco; proceeding with Ernani, Macbeth, Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Simon Boccanegra, and concluding with the composer's final great tragedy of Otello. As a further aid to understanding these operas, plot synopses are given in the Appendix. Voice students, professional performers, and their teachers and coaches, as well as opera lovers, will gain a greater appreciation of Verdi, whose masterful use of text, music, and staging so precisely portrays each character's inner self.

Klaus Moje: Glass : a retrospective exhibition = glas : eine retrospektive

National Gallery of Victoria

New in paperback! This book comes at a time when opera-lovers, singers, directors, and critics alike are taking a new look at the dramatic soprano heroines created by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo Puccini, endeavoring to delve beyond inherited scholarly interpretation and gain a richer understanding of these compelling female characters. Artistically limited by the bel canto musical tradition popular at the time, Verdi launched a new style dramma per musica which also demanded a new soprano archetype. This book illustrates the musical evolution of the Verdi and Puccini soprano while illuminating the dramatic scope and power of these great heroines. Avoiding critical reductionism, Verdi and Puccini Heroines provides an unprecedented and probing discussion of how these great soprano roles were conceived and executed. Accordingly, the authors take a three-dimensional look at these heroines, examining seven operas: Il Trovatore, La Forza del Destino, Aida, La Boh_me, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. The chapters, which are fully self-contained analyses, contain translations, illustrative musical examples, supplementary notes, and references to each opera's literary sources. The musical analysis, while thorough, is descriptive and accessible to all levels of readers.

Verdi and Puccini Heroines

Arts & Photography

Music

Scarecrow Press

Artistically limited by the bel canto musical tradition popular at the time, Verdi launched a new style dramma per musica which also demanded a new soprano archetype. This book illustrates the musical evolution of the Verdi and Puccini soprano while illuminating the dramatic scope and power of these great heroines. Avoiding critical reductionism, Verdi and Puccini Heroines provides an unprecedented and probing discussion of how these great soprano roles were conceived and executed.

Verdi and Puccini Heroines: Dramatic Characterization in Great Soprano Roles

Fleet the Town of My Youth

Footmark Publications

Jointly published by the National Gallery of Victoria and Macmillan Publishers Australia this book is the first publication to document in depth the nature, extent and history of the National Gallery of Victorias celebrated glass collection. Its author, and expert on the art of glass, Geoffrey Edwards, has selected the most magnificent works from the collection, each reproduced in colour, as the basis for a broader discussion of the history of glassmaking in the worlds leading production centres, from the ancient Mediterranean to the present day. With fine photographs by Garry Sommerfeld, this book provides a most spectacular visual array.

Art of Glass: Collection of National Gallery of Victoria

Macmillan Art Publishing

Jointly published by the National Gallery of Victoria and Macmillan Publishers Australia this book is the first publication to document in depth the nature, extent and history of the National Gallery of Victorias celebrated glass collection. Its author, and expert on the art of glass, Geoffrey Edwards, has selected the most magnificent works from the collection, each reproduced in colour, as the basis for a broader discussion of the history of glassmaking in the worlds leading production centres, from the ancient Mediterranean to the present day. With fine photographs by Garry Sommerfeld, this book provides a most spectacular visual array.

Art of glass: Glass in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria

Macmillan

Chihuly in Australia: Glass and Works on Paper

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Crafts & Hobbies

Chihuly Workshop

Filled with historic details of the time, Fire Bell in the Night explores the explosive tension between North and South, black and white, that gripped Charleston, South Carolina, in the summer of 1850. Geoffrey S. Edwards's first novel tells the story of New York Tribune reporter John Sharp, sent to cover the capital trial of Darcy Calhoun, a farmer who stands accused of harboring a fugitive slave. As the trial begins, John quickly realizes that not everything is as it appears in the genteel city of Charleston. A series of mysterious fires in white establishments brings the state militia, a curfew for the black population, and rising tension at the courthouse. To unravel the city's secrets, Sharp must enter Charleston's plantation society, where he is befriended by Tyler Breckenridge, owner of the Willowby plantation, and his beautiful sister Clio. Set against the backdrop of a nation headed toward civil war, Fire Bell in the Night is a page-turning account of a trial and one young reporter's efforts to discover the truth.

Fire Bell in the Night: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

United States

Simon&Schuster

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