- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Editor’s Introduction
- Glossary
- Editorial Note
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Nabucodonosor
- 2 I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata
- 3 Ernani
- 4 I Due Foscari
- 5 Giovanna D’Arco
- 6 Alzira
- 7 Attila
- 8 Macbeth
- 9 I Masnadieri
- 10 Jérusalem
- 11 Il Corsaro
- 12 La Battaglia Di Legnano
- 13 Luisa Miller
- 14 Stiffelio
- 15 Rigoletto
- 16 Il Trovatore
- 17 La Traviata
- 18 Giovanna De Guzman (Les Vêpres Siciliennes)
- 19 Simon Boccanegra
- 20 Aroldo
- Conclusion
- Index
Aroldo
Aroldo
- Chapter:
- (p.236) (p.237) 20 Aroldo
- Source:
- The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi
- Author(s):
Abramo Basevi
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter analyzes Verdi's Aroldo, first performed in August 1857 at Rimini. The opera is nothing more than a reshuffled Stiffelio. Verdi made changes in the plot and the music due to the difficulties created by censorship and by the bad public reception of Stiffelio. The main alteration in the plot was that the priest Stiffelio became the warrior Aroldo. With regard to the music, some things from Stiffelio were preserved in Aroldo and others were changed or added.
Keywords: Verdi, opera, Italian composers, Stiffelio
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Editor’s Introduction
- Glossary
- Editorial Note
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- 1 Nabucodonosor
- 2 I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata
- 3 Ernani
- 4 I Due Foscari
- 5 Giovanna D’Arco
- 6 Alzira
- 7 Attila
- 8 Macbeth
- 9 I Masnadieri
- 10 Jérusalem
- 11 Il Corsaro
- 12 La Battaglia Di Legnano
- 13 Luisa Miller
- 14 Stiffelio
- 15 Rigoletto
- 16 Il Trovatore
- 17 La Traviata
- 18 Giovanna De Guzman (Les Vêpres Siciliennes)
- 19 Simon Boccanegra
- 20 Aroldo
- Conclusion
- Index