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Based on the play by Schiller about tragic love and intrigue at the court of Philip II of Spain, Don Carlos is among the most complex and challenging of Verdi’s works. The composer revised the opera twice in the 20 years following its 1867 debut at the Paris Opéra, incorporating into it the musical ideas that later culminated in such masterpieces as Otello and Falstaff. For that reason Don Carlos is much studied by students and performers, who will welcome this new edition of the final version, reprinted from the authoritative G. Ricordi edition. Note. Credits and Characters. Annotated Contents. Instrumentation.

640 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1977

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Fullest artistic form of operas of Giuseppe Verdi, Italian composer, included La Traviata in 1853, Aïda in 1871, and Otello in 1887; people credit him with raising the genre.

Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi, mainly a Romantic, most influenced the 19th century. Houses frequently perform his works throughout the world, and some themes transcended the boundaries of the genre and long took root in popular culture:
* "La donna è mobile" from Rigoletto
* "Va, pensiero" (The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) from Nabucco , and
* "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" (The Drinking Song).

Masterworks of Giuseppe Verdi used a generally diatonic rather than a chromatic musical idiom, and people sometimes criticized tendency toward melodrama, which dominates the standard repertoire a century and a half.

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March 24, 2022
Very good historic editions front end essays not considered.
good pre opera libretto.
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September 11, 2019
Hay que considerar que, al igual que el original de Schiller, esta obra fue sometida por el compositor a diversas reescrituras, hasta llegar a contabilizar cinco versiones. Aparte de suprimir los ballets "obligados" por su estreno en París, Verdi suprimió el acto primero, situado en Francia, en el que se encuentran Don Carlos e Isabeld e Valois, y tras jurarse amor, descubren que Felipe II, padre de Don Carlos, finalmente será quien se case con Isabel. Y finalmente, Verdi volvió a recuperar ese primer acto, creación original de los libretistas, ya que no se encuentra en Schiller.
Lo cierto es que, pese a que los libretos operísticos no suelen ser tan redondos como sus originales cuando estos provienen de clásicos, en este caso el libreto de Méry y Locle, dejando aparte la gran y abrumadora música de Verdi, es mucho más equilibrado, medido, claro y con una progresdión más afinada que el original de Schiller. Tome elementos de la obra alemana para reordenarlos cambiendo por ejemplo el final, mucho más sasfactorio que el teatral, o logrando en la elección de los espacios y lugares donde dispone la acción una mayor efectividad que la del dramaturgo alemán.
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