Italy Stirs
Adrian Lyttelton, 22 June 1995
Verdi: A Biography
by Mary JanePhillips-Matz.
Oxford, 941 pp., £30, October 1993,0 19 313204 4 Show More
by Mary JanePhillips-Matz.
Oxford, 941 pp., £30, October 1993,
“... shared a realistic, hard-headed business sense and a keen interest in agricultural improvements. Phillips-Matz makes clear how important Verdi’s return to the land was in preserving his sanity and in allowing him to restore his energies, depleted by dealing with a theatrical world for which he frequently expressed his strong dislike. At another ... ”