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Verdi 200: Verdi - Conflict and Liberty
Duration: 1 hour, 15 minutes
First broadcast: Sunday 06 October 2013
Verdi 200: texts read by David Sibley and Jemma Redgrave.
Verdi's life seems to have been marked, both on and off stage, by two words: conflict and liberty, both of which constitute the backbone of this Words and Music.
When you examine the composer's artistic life soon you see the image of a man fighting against old ways of making opera: rigid musical structures dominated by singers as well as opera houses subject to censorship. Only his sheer talent and determination saw Verdi succeed to the point of breaking free and creating at will. This particular personal, perilous journey is followed through letters of the man himself and his wife Giuseppina Strepponi.
The drama on stage referred to, which expresses a fight against political oppression or invisible social constraints, is provided here by some of the original sources, texts by Lord Byron, Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Dumas and Schiller which inspired Verdi to write some of his most memorable masterpieces, among them La Traviata, Rigoletto, Don Carlos and Otello.
Finally, to paint a full picture of Verdi and his time, the so-called Risorgimento, the fight of Italy for its independence and its true identity, and to see also the stature of the composer as a leading figure in the new-born country, this programme combines texts from national idols like Mazzini, with poems by other of his contemporaries, like Giusti, Tasca or Maffei - the later saying: 'You are the Apex of Glory. The words Verdi and Victory ring out together'.  SHOW LESS

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Aida: Grand March
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Extract from letter, reader David Sibley
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00:03
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Rigoletto: Bella figlia dell’amore
Performer: Renato Bruson, Neil Schicoff, Edita Gruberova, Brigitte Fassbaender, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Giuseppe Sinopoli.
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Extract from letter, reader David Sibley
00:08
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Rigoletto: Cortigliani, vil razza dannata
Performer: Renato Bruson, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Giuseppe Sinopoli.
DECCA 475 8556, CD2 TR10
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Victor Hugo
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00:09
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Giuseppe Verdi
Rigoletto: Ebben piango
Performer: Renato Bruson, Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Giuseppe Sinopoli.
DECCA 475 8556, CD2 TR11
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Extract from letter, reader David Sibley
00:12
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Fantaisie sur La Traviata en re majeur (D major)
Performer: Liat Cohen.
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