Its depiction of a people laboring under foreign oppression appealed to the Italians in their struggle for freedom against the Austrians, and he soon became a symbol of the Risorgimento. Verdi made his name with his third opera, Nabucco. (Charles Osborne, The Complete Operas of Verdi, 1969.) If Verdi’s music contains an implicit message, it is Terence’s Homo sum, humani nil a me alienum puto.” With Mozart he also shares a melodic fecundity, with Shakespeare a renaissance humanistic philosophy, and with both, that unsimulatable compassion for mankind which, though it may be felt by many, only the very greatest artists seem able instinctively and unconsciously to infuse into their creations. “In his greatness of vision, Verdi’s affinities are not with Wagner but with Mozart and Shakespeare. (Peter Conrad, A Song of Love and Death: The Meaning of Opera, 1989) In the quartet from Rigoletto, Gilda’s lament and her father’s curses, the Duke’s philandering refrain and Maddalena’s chuckling patter entwine and overlap musically they are equivalent and while they are singing, Verdi withholds judgement.” His ensembles compound opposite emotions, as if a god were listening to the polyphonic hubbub of the human race.
Like the chameleon Shakespeare, Verdi hears everyone at once and distributes music impartially to all men alike. The composer of Macbeth, Otello and Falstaff is opera’s Shakespeare: Verdi the populist is an expert in the human heart who commiserates with the slave Aida, the courtesan Violetta and the cheerily dishonourable Falstaff, with the wandering mendicants of La Forza del Destino or the universal chorus whispering its prayer for peace in the Requiem. In him the operatic world theatre…becomes truly global. His operas encompass the theocratic ancient Egypt of Aida and the bigoted Babylon of Nabucco, the imperial Spain of Don Carlos and the licentious Italian Renaissance of Rigoletto, the provincial German courts of Luisa Miller and the contemporary Parisian demimonde of La Traviata.
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