It is to composer and librettist Arrigo Boito and his constant pestering of the octogenarian Verdi that there remained within him one last great comedy fighting to get out that we owe this absolute miracle of an opera. Produced in 1893 as Verdi turned 80 there is much in this masterpiece that can be identified as a modernist neoclassical work. The use of short motifs instead of long arioso melodic lines, the spry and reduced orchestral textures and the lack of a single 'stand and deliver' dramatic declamatory aria all serve to make this more of a 20th century work than an example of 19th century late-Romanticism.
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Music
6.0
Test
Drama, Science Fiction
7.6
There Are No Saints
Action, Mystery, Thriller
5.2
The Price We Pay
Action, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Horror
5.8
Man
Drama
6.9
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Comedy, TV Movie, Documentary
6.1
Q
Thriller, Drama
4.7
Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl
Music, Documentary
7.0
Ape vs Mecha Ape
Action, Science Fiction
5.8
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Horror
3.8
Corrective Measures
Science Fiction, Action, Thriller, Adventure
5.1
Shamshera
Action, Drama, Adventure
5.5
One Ranger
Action, Thriller
6.4
Spider
Drama, Comedy
6.5
Hex
Action, Horror, Thriller
5.7
Old Man Junior
6.9
Death Al Dente: A Gourmet Detective Mystery
Drama, TV Movie, Mystery, Crime
6.8
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Drama, Romance
6.0
Test
Drama
5.9
Tiger 3
Action, Adventure, Thriller
5.9