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1 juin 2017
- handle: 10670/1.a5sr4o
- isbn: 9781783742134
- eisbn: 9782821881648
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Victorian era London music opera opéra Londres époque victorienne musique Music History HIS015000 HBJD1Sujets proches
Frontier troubles Operas--History and criticism Opera, Comic Opera--History and criticism Comic opera Lyric drama Serious music Musical compositions Art music Musical works Classical music Western music (Western countries) Art music, Western Western art music AnnalsCiter ce document
Massimo Zicari, « 19. Otello at the Royal Lyceum (1889) », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.a5sr4o
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The Milan premiere of Otello offered itself as an opportunity for the English critics not only to report on a momentous event in the history of Italian opera, but also to elaborate on the figure of Verdi as a man and a composer. The content of the London press in 1887 makes clear that he was considered the most authoritative and, in fact, the only living representative of the Italian operatic tradition. Some correspondents published lengthy retrospectives of his industrious career, while othe...