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George W. Martin
Verdi in America (Three Early Operas)
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Whitridge Room; $40 for all three sessions (recommended); $15 per session
This seminar's three meetings, each focused on one opera, will discuss what stirred Verdi in the opera's source and how he fashioned his libretto and drama, with recorded musical examples.
Verdi in America may be purchased from the Library; copies of the opera texts will be distributed to registrants at no additional charge.
Verdi scholar George W. Martin is the author of the recently published
Verdi in America: Oberto through Rigoletto (University of Rochester Press), a study of the reception of those operas and how and why opinion of them formed and changed.
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