This is a windy, wordy version of the life of Verdi which begins at
the apogee of his career, his triumph in Milan when Macheth and
later Othello were produced and thunderously applauded. Sheean uses
this last year as a point of return -in flashbacks- to his hard
peasant boyhood; his first romantic operas; his periods in Paris
and St. Petersburg; his retirement from music for sixteen years to
his farm, at which time he developed close relations with the
Reaorgimento Movement and friendships with Garibaldi, Mazzini and
Cavour; and his final re-emergence at the top of his form with the
Requiem Mass which was only to be surpassed by his two just
operatic masterpieces.... What Sheean lacks in musical insight, he
makes up for with enthusiasm- and historical perspective. But
somehow Verdi, as an artist, escapes him. Between the two names
however- this sort of popularization has possibilities for the
commercial market now and the screen later, and it's colorful
enough. (Kirkus Reviews)
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