Matériel : Vocal Score
SKU: HL.49012030
ISBN 9783254080202. Italian - German.
This comprehensive introduction to Giuseppe Verdi's 'Don Carlos' contains the complete libretto with numerous music examples. Kurt Pahlen comments on the work with music-related references as well explanations on the external and internal plot. A summary of the plot and a brief outline of the genesis bring 'Don Carlos' into relation with the composer's entire oeuvre and his life, thus providing comprehensive, richly illustrated information on this opera.
SKU: AP.6-41387X
ISBN 9780486413877. English.
Based on the play by Schiller about tragic love and intrigue at the court of Philip II of Spain, Don Carlos is among the most complex and challenging of Verdi's works. The composer revised the opera twice in the 20 years following its 1867 debut at the Paris Opéra, incorporating into it the musical ideas that later culminated in such masterpieces as Otello and Falstaff. For that reason Don Carlos is much studied by students and performers, who will welcome this new edition of the final version.