Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries

Author: Peter Conrad Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, the two greatest opera composers of their time, represent diametrically opposed approaches to life and music, but is it impossible to love them both? These equally matched Titans offer us a choice between two kinds of art, two ways of life, two opposed philosophies of existence. During their lifetimes Verdi and Wagner helped to define the identity of their emerging nations; their music still dramatizes the...Read more