Lecture: Physical and Psychological Aging In The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi
Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York CityA lecture by Francesco Izzo, University of Southampton, co-director of the American Institute for Verdi Studies at NYU In early nineteenth-century Italian opera, characters explicitly described as old are mostly a prerogative of comedy. In serious melodramma, the advanced age of some characters may be inferred by virtue of their role (father and grandfather, pastor), but only rarely is it explicitly stated, verbally…