Verdi, Giuseppe TWO AUTOGRAPH DRAFTS OF AN IMPORTANT LETTER TO THE PAINTER DOMENICO MORELLI SIGNED ("G.VERDI"), ABOUT "KING LEAR" AND "OTELLO" in which he describes how he imagines the character of Otello at key moments in the drama, including where the hero faints overcome by jealousy, when Iago stands over him, revelling in in his power over his master, urging Morelli to depict the scene as a sequel to the sketch he sent him of the Duke of Kent in King Lear, and thanking him for sending him photographs of his painting of Le tentazioni di Sant'Antonio, being a working manuscript containing many deletions, revisions, alterations and differences from the known version of this letter, found in Verdi's letter-book ...E quanto è bello quel Bozzetto di Rè Lear. Desolante come in soggetto! E come esser deve potente l'espressione quella figura che credo sia il vecchio Kent...E perchè non fai il pendant a questo bozzeto con una scena d'Otello? Per es: quando Otello soffoca Desdemona o meglio ancora e più nuovo quando Otello straziato dalla Gelosia sviene, e Jago la guarda con un sorriso d'interno [...] dicendo "opera farmaco mio"... 3 pages, 8vo, Genoa, 4 January 1880, creasing along fold, small tear to margin
Verdi, Giuseppe TWO AUTOGRAPH DRAFTS OF AN IMPORTANT LETTER TO THE PAINTER DOMENICO MORELLI SIGNED ("G.VERDI"), ABOUT "KING LEAR" AND "OTELLO" in which he describes how he imagines the character of Otello at key moments in the drama, including where the hero faints overcome by jealousy, when Iago stands over him, revelling in in his power over his master, urging Morelli to depict the scene as a sequel to the sketch he sent him of the Duke of Kent in King Lear, and thanking him for sending him photographs of his painting of Le tentazioni di Sant'Antonio, being a working manuscript containing many deletions, revisions, alterations and differences from the known version of this letter, found in Verdi's letter-book ...E quanto è bello quel Bozzetto di Rè Lear. Desolante come in soggetto! E come esser deve potente l'espressione quella figura che credo sia il vecchio Kent...E perchè non fai il pendant a questo bozzeto con una scena d'Otello? Per es: quando Otello soffoca Desdemona o meglio ancora e più nuovo quando Otello straziato dalla Gelosia sviene, e Jago la guarda con un sorriso d'interno [...] dicendo "opera farmaco mio"... 3 pages, 8vo, Genoa, 4 January 1880, creasing along fold, small tear to margin
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