Musical Correspondents
Although the collaboration between Verdi and Arrigo Boito got off to a shaky start, the two men went on to collaborate on a rewrite of Simon
Boccanegra and on two masterpieces of Verdi's old age - Otello and Falstaff. The workings and tensions of this collaboration are revealed in their correspondence. Including excerpts from:
Aida Chorus and Orchestra of La
Scala, conductor Lorin Maazel Simon Boccanegra
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Orchestra of La Scala , conductor Georg Solti Otello Luciano Pavarotti (tenor),
Chicago SO, conductor Georg Solti Falstaff Sharon Sweet (soprano), Marilyn Home (mezzo), Bavarian RSO, conductor Colin Davis