Robert Greenberg - Life and Operas of Verdi: Nabucco

Excerpt from The Great Courses "Life and Operas of Verdi" Lecture 4 - Nabucco
Professor Robert Greenberg
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"Life and Operas of Verdi"
The Italians have a word for the sense of dazzling beauty produced by effortless mastery: "sprezzatura." Perhaps no cultural form associated with Italy is as steeped in the love of sprezzatura as opera, a genre the Italians invented. And no artist working in opera has embodied the ideal of sprezzatura as magnificently as that gruff, self-described "farmer" from the Po Valley and composer of 28 operas, Giuseppe Verdi (1813--1901).