Word: verdis
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mehta announced the program, of which I caught"Beethoven" and "Verdi" and little else. Theentire audience was absolutely silent as the musicbegan...
Wagner came next, a typical Wagner piece withbombast, angst and verve, and then a Verdi piecewhich I didn't know then but searched forafterward...
...reputation follows close at her heels, however, and bring about her ultimate unhappiness and death. The nobility of spirit and purity of emotion with which Verdi infuses her character amplifies the tragedy of her situation and taps into the universal sympathy of the human beast...
...time of the premiere, Verdi was himself living 'in sin" with his mistress, and this opera is fierce attestation to the moral confines of mid-19th century Europe...
This simple plot, combined with some of Verdi's most beautiful and expressive music, makes it one of the most operatic of operas, one of the most eloquent magnifications of human emotion through the use of music...