Verdi's Theater

Creating Drama through Music

By: Gilles de Van, Gilda Roberts (Translator)

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Paperback | 17 September 1998 | Edition Number 1

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In this innovative study, Gilles de Van focuses on an often neglected aspect of Verdi's operas: their effectiveness as theater. De Van argues that two main aesthetic conceptions underlie all of Verdi's works: that of the "melodrama" and the "musical drama." In the melodrama the composer relies mainly on dramatic intensity and the rhythm linking various stages of the plot, using exemplary characters and situations. But in the musical drama reality begins to blur, the musical forms lose their excessively neat patterns, and doubt and ambiguity undermine characters and situations, reflecting the crisis of character typical of modernity.
Although melodrama tends to dominate Verdi's early work and musical drama his later, both aesthetics are woven into all his operas: musical drama is already present in "Ernani" (1844), and melodrama is still present in "Otello" (1887). Indeed, much of the interest and originality of Verdi's operas lies in his adherence to both these contradictory systems, allowing the composer/dramatist to be simultaneously classical and modern, traditionalist and innovator.

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Preface
Verdi, Dramatist
Aesthetics
Working on the Libretto
Melodrama
Metamorphoses I
Metamorphoses II
Music Drama
Unity
Conclusion
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Verdi Operas
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