Verdi's Attila: a study in chiaroscuro

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

E-ISSN: 1474-0621|21|3|279-289

ISSN: 0954-5867

Source: Cambridge Opera Journal, Vol.21, Iss.3, 2009-11, pp. : 279-289

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Abstract

This study untangles the complex literary, historical, political and theatrical web of Verdi, Solera, Zacharias Werner, Madame De Staël and Giuseppe Mazzini, and relates it to Verdi's use of light and dark imagery in Werner's play.