The Operas of Verdi: Volume 1: From Oberto to Rigoletto

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Verdi and the world of the Primo Ottocento
characteristics of the early operas
"Oberto Conte di San Bonifacio"
"Un Giorno di Regno"
"Nabucco"
"I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata"
"Ernani"
"I Due Foscari"
"Giovanna d'Arco"
"Alzira"
"Attila"
"Macbeth"
"I Masnadieri"
"Jerusalem"
"Il Corsaro"
"La Battaglia di Legano"
"Luisa Miller"
"Stiffelio"
"Rigoletto".

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This is the first volume of Julian Budden's monumental three-volume survey of the operas of Verdi. Hailed on publication for its extraordinary comprehensibility, the set has become the classic reference work on its subject. For this new edition the author has made a host of corrections throughout, and updated the text in the light of recent scholarship. Volume I traces the organic growth and development of the composer's style from 1839 to 1851 - from the first opera, Oberto, to the seventeenth, Rigoletto. Budden examines each opera in detail with a full account of its dramatic and historical origins and a brief critical evaluation. More than 350 musical examples point to the significance of the early operas in Verdi's developing style.

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Where on earth did Verdians turn before Budden? When the first volume of his chronological study of the complete 31 operas appeared in 1973, it was already clear this could prove the standard work...With Verdi productions proliferating in the run-up to the centenary of his death in 2001, this great study grows ever more necessary

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