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Article: Giuseppe Verdi: The Composer as Producer
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- The Washington Post
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- January 10, 1988
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VERDI
A Life in the Theatre By Charles Osborne
Knopf. 360 pp. $22.95
IN 1970 Charles Osborne's The Complete Operas of Verdi, also
published by Alfred A. Knopf, promptly became the source of choice
for anyone wanting to know how Verdi achieved his incredible list of
operas. Osborne, in that volume, not only gives his readers the
contents and structures of every opera from the Oberto, Conte di San
Bonifacio (1839), to one of the greatest of all comedy operas,
Falstaff (1893), he also illuminates, in handsome elegance, the long
road that Verdi traveled in those more than 50 years. And along the
way, he places in excellent perspective the Requiem, the String
Quartet and the Verdi songs, of ...