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The Life and Works of Giuseppe Verdi (Naxos): Narration by Jeremy Siepmann
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The Life and Works of Giuseppe Verdi (Naxos): Narration by Jeremy SiepmannPr. Instrument: Narrator
- Early Manhood, civil strife, and the start of a career
- Tragedy, creation, and the birth of a true professional
- Failure, despair, and rescue: the genesis of Nabucco
- A sensation reported and recalled
- Into the galleys: fame, frustration, and a major surprise
- The revolution of Macbeth and a return to safer ground
- Paris and a love affair
- The revolutions of 1848
- Composition and censorship: the strife-torn birth of Rigoletto
- Verdi the unsurpassed psychologist
- Strepponi, Busseto, and the rift with Barezzi
- Escape: Verdi and Strepponi at Sant' Agata
- "The Bear of Busseto" emerges: the darker side of Verdi
- Verdi's "divorce" from his parents; his mother's death, and a theatrical fiasco
- Verdi and Women: Strepponi and the "Dark Lady"
- La Travailata: Verdi's trials at the Paris Opéra
- Verdi in rehearsal - and a review from Berlioz
- Yet more trouble with the censors
- A passionate patriot, a reluctant politician
- A semi-official retirement, nursed by disenchantment
- Verdi welcomes war
- He travels to Paris for Don Carlos
- Stupendous triumph
- Verdi shaken by deaths of his father, Barezzi, and Rossini
- He meets Manzoni
- An unusual opera
- Enter Teresa Stolz, exit Mariani
- Strepponi struggles with jealousy as Verdi writes Aida
- Verdi bemoans the corruption of the operatic world
- Manzoni's death begets a masterpiece
- The return to Shakespeare
- Verdi the Wagner of Italy
- A Shakespearian swansong
- Old age and the death of Strepponi
- Verdi the widower
- Stolz and the aged Verdi, a visit from Toscanini
- The old man dies and the world pays homage
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