- Early life at Bussetto
- Success and failure in Milan
- The journeyman
- Florence, London and Paris
- Return to Busseto
- Viva V.E.R.D.I.
- The new order
- The dark decade
- Indian Summer
- The last years
- Verdi as man and artist
The Music
- The background
- From Oberto to Ernani
- The prison years
- The high noon
- Towards grand opera
- The final masterpieces
- Miscellaneous operatic compostions
- Chamber compositions
- Choral and religious works
- Calendar
- List of works
- Personalia
- Select bibliography
- Glossary of nineteenth-century operatic terms
Topics covered by this book
- Messa da Requiem (music) • p280 • Chapter 20: Choral and religious works
- Falstaff (drama) • p280 • Chapter 17: The final masterpieces
- Aroldo (drama) • p232 • Chapter 16: Towards grand opera
- Les vêpres siciliennes (drama) • p232 • Chapter 16: Towards grand opera
- Un ballo in maschera (drama) • p232 • Chapter 16: Towards grand opera
- Simon Boccanegra (drama) • p232 • Chapter 16: Towards grand opera
- La forza del destino (drama) • p232 • Chapter 16: Towards grand opera
- Don Carlos (drama) • p232 • Chapter 16: Towards grand opera
- Otello (drama) • p280 • Chapter 17: The final masterpieces
- Aida (drama) • p232 • Chapter 16: Towards grand opera
- Rigoletto (drama) • p210 • Chapter 15: The high noon
- Stiffelio (drama) • p210 • Chapter 15: The high noon
- Luisa Miller (drama) • p179 • Chapter 14: The prison years
- La battaglia di Legnano (drama) • p179 • Chapter 14: The prison years
- Il corsaro (drama) • p179 • Chapter 14: The prison years
- Jérusalem (drama) • p179 • Chapter 14: The prison years
- I masnadieri (drama) • p179 • Chapter 14: The prison years
- Macbeth (drama) • p179 • Chapter 14: The prison years
- Attila (drama) • p179 • Chapter 14: The prison years
- Alzira (drama) • p179 • Chapter 14: The prison years
- Giovanna d’Arco (drama) • p179 • Chapter 14: The prison years
- I due Foscari (drama) • p179 • Chapter 14: The prison years
- Ernani (drama) • p163 • Chapter 13: From Oberto to Ernani
- I Lombardi (drama) • p163 • Chapter 13: From Oberto to Ernani
- Nabucco (drama) • p163 • Chapter 13: From Oberto to Ernani
- Un giorno di regno (drama) • p163 • Chapter 13: From Oberto to Ernani
- Oberto (drama) • p163 • Chapter 13: From Oberto to Ernani
- Il trovatore (drama) • p210 • Chapter 15: The high noon
- La traviata (drama) • p210 • Chapter 15: The high noon
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