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Brings out Dallapiccola's enduring importance as critic as well as
composer. The Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola [1904-75] always
characterised himself as a `man of the theatre', and Il Prigioniero
[The Prisoner] has been performed more often than any other Italian
opera since Puccini. Dallapiccola on Opera, the first collection of
his writings to appear in English, proves that he was also an
inspired essayist and critic. To the directness and psychological
insight of his narrative style, Dallapiccola adds probing
observation of details in the critical texts that form the core of
this book. Whether writing about familiar masterpieces like
Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's Falstaff, Mussorgsky's Boris
Godunov and Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande, or discussing such
great but problematic works as Monteverdi's Il Ritorno di Ulisse in
patria, Busoni's Doktor Faust and Verdi's Simon Boccanegra,
Dallapiccola illuminates fundamental, previously unnoticed dramatic
and musical aspects.
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