{"product_id":"the-verdiboito-correspondence","title":"The Verdi-Boito Correspondence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThese 301 letters between Giuseppe Verdi and his last  most gifted librettist  Arrigo Boito  document an extraordinary chapter in musical history. Now available for the first time in English  this correspondence records both a unique friendship and its creative legacy.  This new edition of the landmark Carteggio Verdi\/Boito is at once a valuable resource for all students  teachers  and scholars of opera and a fascinating glimpse of the daily life of European art and artists during the fertile last decades of the 19th century.  Embarking on a 20-year collaboration  Verdi and Boito produced a successful revision of Simon Boccanegra  and two new operas  Otello and Falstaff. They created what many consider to be Verdis greatest operas  thanks both to Boitos poetry and to his handling of the composer. Here are the day-to-day tasks of creation: poet and composer debating problems of dramatic structure  words  phrases  and meters; altering dialogue as  at the same time  they converse about the wider worlds of art and music. The give and take of artistic creation is rendered fascinatingly.  This edition features a new introduction by Marcello Conati  improvements and updatings to the original edition  and an appendix of undated correspondence. William Weavers translation is characteristically pitch-perfect; he also provides a short closing sketch of Boitos life after the death of his beloved maestro. Explanatory \"linking texts\" between the letters create a narrative.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44986795917365,"sku":"ByrdShop_0226853047","price":32.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780226853048.jpg?v=1770917497","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-verdiboito-correspondence","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}