Julian Budden (1924–2007)
Auteur de Verdi
A propos de l'auteur
Julian Budden (1924-2007) served as the Chief Producer for Opera at BBC Radio as the President of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini, Lucca, Italy. In addition to his Master Musicians volume on Verdi, he is also the author of the Master Musicians biography of Puccini (OUP, 2002) as well as the afficher plus three-volume The Operas of Verdi (OUP, 1978-1981, revised edition 1992). afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Julian Budden
Operas of Verdi, The: Volume 1: From Oberto to Rigoletto 2 exemplaires
Gaetano Donizetti 1 exemplaire
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Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Budden, Julian
- Nom légal
- Budden, Julian Medforth
- Date de naissance
- 1924-04-09
- Date de décès
- 2007-02-28
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Hoylake, Merseyside, England, UK
- Études
- Royal College of Music
- Professions
- Musikwissenschaftler
- Prix et distinctions
- British Academy (Derek Allen Prize|1980)
Membres
Critiques
The 26 operas of Giuseppe Verdi are among the world's best-loved music. In works such as Rigoletto, Il trovatore and Aida, Verdi developed the musical language of high Romanticism that still speaks to listeners around the world. This is the best one-volume introduction to the most popular of all composers and includes his complete life story and analysis of his most famous works.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 13
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 355
- Popularité
- #67,468
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 45
- Langues
- 5
One caveat: it's worth listening to and preferably viewing online a production of each opera before you begin. Budden doesn't tend to start with the plot and then work his way through; instead he prioritises history and the many changes made before giving us a thorough run-down of how the music and text combine on stage.… (plus d'informations)