The Operas of Verdi Volume 3 From Don Carlos to Falstaff [Paperback]

Volume Three covers roughly a quarter of a century, a period which saw grand opera on the Parisian model established throughout Italy, the reform of the Conservatories, and the spread of cosmopolitan influences to an extent that convinced many that Italian music was losing its identity. Verdi produced his four last and greatest operas--Don Carlos,Aida,Otello, andFalstaff--in this period, which ended with the advent of verisimo , in which a new, recognizably Italian idiom was inaugurated.