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About Garry Wills
See more books from this AuthorJust as Verdi “gave cosmic reach to Otello’s music,” writes the author, “he turns Falstaff into a force of nature, an earth-daimon.” Wills isn’t afraid to plumb the subterranean depths and the delicate infrastructure of these works.
| Read Full Review of Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of t...One genius interprets another: English to Italian, words to lyrics, immortal drama to overpowering opera.
Oct 03 2011 | Read Full Review of Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of t...Opera aficionados will delight in Wills's (Outside Looking In) thoughtful, deeply rehearsed essays on Verdi's treatment of Shakespeare's plays. Both the Elizabethan playwright and the 19th-century com
Jul 18 2011 | Read Full Review of Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of t...Opera aficionados will delight in Wills's (Outside Looking In) thoughtful, deeply rehearsed essays on Verdi's treatment of Shakespeare's plays.
Jul 18 2011 | Read Full Review of Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of t...He examines four of Shakespeare’s plays (Macbeth, Othello and The Merry Wives of Windsor, and to a lesser extent Henry IV) and the three Verdi operas based on them (Macbetto, Otello and Falstaff) and shows their similarity while illustrating the demands of their different genres.
Oct 25 2011 | Read Full Review of Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of t...Wills uses the lens of these three works to study Verdi’s life and work, and to bring us to a richer understanding of how deeply Verdi turns music into the food of love.
Apr 20 2012 | Read Full Review of Verdi's Shakespeare: Men of t...An aggregated and normalized score based on 9 user ratings from iDreamBooks & iTunes