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- Title
Two Ways to Tell a Story.
- Authors
Leggatt, Alexander
- Abstract
This article examines some of the prominent works of Italian operatic composer Giuseppe Verdi. Verdi's Falstaff concludes with a great choral fugue, a final statement not only about the opera but about life itself. The two endings are a clue to the fundamentally different ways in which "The Merry Wives of Windsor" and "Falstaff" tell a similar story. Verdi's librettist Arrigo Boito did not just adapt William Shakespeare's play. He created a new work with a vision of its own, a vision that is general and controlled by an idea. It is a work with a comic philosophy of life as driven by trickery and laughter.
- Subjects
VERDI, Giuseppe, 1813-1901; FALSTAFF (Opera); MERRY Wives of Windsor, The (Play : Shakespeare); FALSTAFF, John, Sir (Fictional character); VOCAL music; DRAMATISTS
- Publication
University of Toronto Quarterly, 2005, Vol 74, Issue 2, p714
- ISSN
0042-0247
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/utq.74.2.714