- Personal, cultural and political context
- Verdi’s life: a thematic biography Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
- The Italian theatre of Verdi’s day Alessandro Roccatagliati
- Verdi, Italian Romanticism, and the Risorgimento Mary Ann Smart
- The style of Verdi’s operas and non-operatic works
- The forms of set pieces Scott L. Balthazar
- New currents in the libretto Fabrizio Della Seta
- Words and music Emanuele Senici
- French influences Andreas Giger
- Structural coherence Steven Huebner
- Instrumental music in Verdi’s operas David Kimbell
- Verdi’s non-operatic works Roberta Montemorra Marvin
- Representative operas
- Ernani: The tenor in crisis Rosa Solinas
- “Ch’hai di nuovo, buffon?” or What’s new with Rigoletto Cormac Newark
- Verdi’s Don Carlos: an overview of the operas Harold Powers
- Desdemona’s alienation and Otello’s fall Scott L. Balthazar
- Creation and critical reception
- An introduction to Verdi’s working methods Luke Jensen
- Verdi criticism Gregory W. Harwood
Topics covered by this book
- Don Carlos (drama) • p208 • Chapter 13: Verdi's Don Carlos: an overview of the operas
- Otello (drama) • p237 • Chapter 14: Desdemona's alienation and Otello's fall
- Rigoletto (drama) • p197 • Chapter 12: "Ch'hai di nuovo, buffon?" or What's new with Rigoletto
- Ernani (drama) • p185 • Chapter 11: Ernani: the tenor in crisis
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