The twenty-six operas of Giuseppe Verdi are among the world's best-loved music. In works such as Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La traviata, and Aida, Verdi developed the musical language of high Romanticism that still speaks to listeners around the world. And Verdi's life story was just as full of the twists and turns, tragedies and scandals, and unexpected events of the most romantic of his operas. But above all else, the story of Verdi's life is the story of his work; he was still challenging himself to expand his artistic horizons at the age of 79, when he completed his last opera, Falstaff.-- The best one-volume introduction to the most popular of all composers-- Includes his complete life story and analysis of his most famous works
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