Liberty and Responsibility in Verdi’s “Aida”
ABSTRACT
Through a close study of the opera Aida's music and libretto, along with associated readings, this colloquium investigated the difficult and thought-provoking intersection between individual liberty and public responsibility.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
“English translation of Italian Libretto.” Opera Guide: The Virtual Opera House. http://www.opera-guide.ch/opera.php?uilang=en&id=403#libretto (June 16, 2015).
Aristotle. Poetics. London: Dover Publications, Inc., 1997.
Hegel, G. W. F. Phenomenology of Spirit. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Lectures on Aesthetics. Edited by Heinrich Gustav Hotho. Translated by Thomas Malcolm Knox. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975.
Hughes, Spikes. Famous Verdi Operas. London: Robert Hale Ltd, 1968.
Petrobelli, Pierluigi. Music in the Theater: Essays on Verdi and Other Composers. Princeton: Princeton Legacy Library, 2014.
Sophocles. Antigone. Mineola: Dover Thrift Editions, 1993.
Van, Gilles de. Verdi’s Theater: Creating Drama through Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.