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This is a windy, wordy version of the life of Verdi which begins at the apogee of his career, his triumph in Milan when Macheth and later Othello were produced and thunderously applauded. Sheean uses this last year as a point of return -in flashbacks- to his hard peasant boyhood; his first romantic operas; his periods in Paris and St. Petersburg; his retirement from music for sixteen years to his farm, at which time he developed close relations with the Reaorgimento Movement and friendships with Garibaldi, Mazzini and Cavour; and his final re-emergence at the top of his form with the Requiem Mass which was only to be surpassed by his two just operatic masterpieces.... What Sheean lacks in musical insight, he makes up for with enthusiasm- and historical perspective. But somehow Verdi, as an artist, escapes him. Between the two names however- this sort of popularization has possibilities for the commercial market now and the screen later, and it's colorful enough. (Kirkus Reviews)

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