VOLUME 20. NUMBER X. 2013
Italian Journal / Columns, Social Journal, Verdi Ever After, Volume 20. Number X. 2013 /
Verdi Concert at Carnegie Hall. Maestro Zeffirelli receives IAF Bravo! Award. John Cabot University Gala. 40 Roman Women: Book Launch. New York Stage and Film Winter Gala. Rebirth Rome: Panel and Reception. Italian Academy Foundation Reception. Naoto Nakagawa Studio Visit. Free Fall Art Opening Rome.
Italian Journal / Columnists and Contributors, Editor's Journal, Verdi Ever After, Volume 20. Number X. 2013 / Claudia Palmira Acunto /
La Scala’s December 7 season premiere of La Traviata made headlines in Italy — large type exclamations of how the director was boo’ed. The director’s intrepid vision was to demonstrate that Verdi’s love story need not be trapped in a 19th century Paris boudoir, but whose characters and emotions resonated in an ultra-chic, 20th-century Milanese […]
Italian Journal / Columnists and Contributors, Publisher's Notebook, Verdi Ever After, Volume 20. Number X. 2013 / S. Acunto /
“Many Minded” is how Homer, the first poet of Western Civilization has been described: “many minded” – it’s Yeats’ expression for the incredible variety, depth and scope of the poet’s work. We may confidently apply that same epithet to Shakespeare, Goethe, Dante, Ovid, Virgil and, in modern times, as well, to Verdi for the qualities […]
Italian Journal / Columnists and Contributors, Verdi Ever After, Volume 20. Number X. 2013 / George W. Martin /
by George W. MARTIN
As he enters his two hundred and first year, Verdi continues to hold the interest of American scholars and the affection of a vast audience. The scholars, responding to the “Verdi Renaissance,” which began in Germany in the 1920s and reached the United States in the 1940s, after gorging for half a century on Wagner rediscovered Verdi.
Italian Journal / Verdi Ever After, Volume 20. Number X. 2013 /
And their premiere dates Oberto November 17, 1839 Un giorno di regno September 5,1840 Nabucco March 9, 1842 I Lombardi alla prima crociata February 11, 1843 Ernani March 9, 1844 I due Foscari November 3, 1844 Giovanna d’Arco February 15, 1845 Alzira August 12, 1845 Attila March 17, 1846 Macbeth March 14, 1847 I masnadieri […]
Italian Journal / Columnists and Contributors, Verdi Ever After, Volume 20. Number X. 2013 / Marcia J. Citron /
by Marcia J. CITRON
Franco Zeffirelli has built his career on opera and on film. In the early part of his life he assisted famed director Luchino Visconti and learned a great deal about stagecraft and cinema.
Italian Journal / Verdi Ever After, Volume 20. Number X. 2013 /
Verdi, Shakespeare and other classics
Italian Journal / Columnists and Contributors, Verdi Ever After, Volume 20. Number X. 2013 / Pierpaolo Polzonetti /
by Pierpaolo POLZONETTI
On November 2, 1906, Carla Erba, granddaughter of the founder of a leading Italian pharmaceutical industry, gave birth to Luchino Visconti in Milan, the city once ruled by the Visconti family. One hour before he was born – as he liked to recollect – the curtain went up at La Scala for a performance of Verdi’s Traviata.
Italian Journal / Columnists and Contributors, Verdi Ever After, Volume 20. Number X. 2013 / Federica Troisi /
by Federica TROISI
The celebration of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi provides the opportunity for a careful philological reading of his productions and a study of how European literary sources influenced the great composer’s artistic path. If the first task can be performed by a musician, the latter also involves the literary scholar.
Italian Journal / Columnists and Contributors, Verdi Ever After, Volume 20. Number X. 2013 / David Schroeder /
by David SCHROEDER
Three decades of the operatic character on the silver screen.
From 1958 to 1986, four notable films of Verdi’s Otello appeared, with remarkably little in common. The first, made for RAI television by director Franco Enriquez in 1958, featured Mario Del Monaco; then came Walter Felsenstein’s East German version in 1969, five years later Herbert von Karajan both conducted and directed his with Jon Vickers and Mirella Freni, and Franco Zeffirelli’s appeared in 1986.