| Giuseppe Verdi - Music - 2018 - 193 pages
Rigoletto was first produced at the Teatro La Fenice, Venice, in 1851, and is generally seen as marking the beginning of Giuseppe Verdi's extraordinary middle period. It was ... | |
| Giuseppe Verdi - Music - 2018 - 83 pages
The subject cannot fail!' exulted Verdi, when recommending Victor Hugo's play Le Roi s'amuse to his librettist. But the censors made every effort to stop it, and the baritone ... | |
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