Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | Verdi, Falstaff
Falstaff
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| Other uniform titles: | Timson, David.
Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Falstaff.
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| ISBN: | 184379098X
9781843790983
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| Notes: | Streaming audio.
Title from image of compact disc cover on Web page (viewed May 10, 2006).
Includes program notes.
Unabridged.
Duration: 78:54.
Digital content provided by Naxos Music Library; access may be restricted to users at subscribing institutions.
Unidentified performers ; David Timson, narrator.
Also available as compact disc; previously issued as Naxos 8.558158.
Narrated in English; opera excerpts sung in Italian.
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| Summary: | This series introduces, in words and music, the plot and background of the major operas. Using the principal themes and arias, taken from the Naxos recording of the complete work, Thomson Smillie is informative yet entertaining, enabling the listener to get more from this remarkable art form. 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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| Other form: | Compact disc version
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| Standard no.: | 00636943815823
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| Publisher's no.: | 8.558158 Naxos Music Library
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