Alessandro Timpanaro

Verdi and Wagner on line Alessandro Timpanaro

They were the greatest and most famous rivals of the 19th century. Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner were for almost a hundred years the two pillars of opera within Europe but not only. Two immense geniuses who never met, never spoke to each other and never wrote each other a single letter. Two rivals who who gave each other dirty looks for decades, between the moments when they could barely hide the mutual admiration and the ones when they were showing off, acting like they despised each other. What if they had the chance of expressing their attitudes and opinions through the social networks? What would we have read?This book, somewhere between a biographic and a humorous work, tries to let us see Verdi, Wagner and many more great composers, bright stars in the history of music, dealing with something as modern as the social networks, playing with their human side and with the many stories that made their lives peculiar. It's a sort of simultaneous biography, since - despite their opposite directions in their art - they happened to have many things in common, starting with the year when they were born. We'll see them fighting with posts, comments and memes as weapons. From an Italian Facebook page that became very popular among music lovers, here is finally "The Social Adventures of Verdi and Wagner".