VERDI, THE OPERA, THE RISORGIMENTO

Giuseppe Verdi in his compositional itinerary reveals a versatile ability to draw, even analytically, composite masses, individuals, and complex psychology. There we find the romantic impulse, but also the ability to observe humanity and some of its paradoxes ironically.

His dramaturgical and musical language innovates while remaining communicative. A circle of mutual influences is created between his research and the advancing taste of the public. A reflection that concerns the show but also political instances. Verdi is a synthesis of nineteenth-century Italian opera as a symbol of the Risorgimento.

The course aims to investigate, through the study of the most significant works in the various stages of production, the development of Verdi's musical and dramaturgical language, which imprints new evolutions to the so-called 'usual form' marked in distinct 'situations', in the name of a plastic relationship of music-text-theater and in a perspective of organic overall unity of the form of the work.