How Long to Read Verdi's Dream

How Long Does it Take to Read Verdi's Dream?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 20 minutes to read Verdi's Dream by Joseph Cone

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In 1873 Giuseppe Verdi is a prosperous and energetic sixty-year-old celebrated throughout Europe, a composer of grand and melodious operas, a free-thinking liberal and agnostic, who abruptly decides to set to music a traditional Catholic mass for the dead. Extraordinary! Verdi had never written a musical Requiem before, but saying he is moved by the passing of a respected Italian writer, he undertakes a solemn and monumental composition for orchestra, chorus, and soloists. Ah, but more is going on in this artist's soul than what appears, for the composing stirs memories and feelings still unresolved since the shocking deaths of his young wife and children more than 30 years earlier. Verdi's Dream is a screenplay for a dramatic feature film, presenting an original portrait of the great opera composer at this pivotal moment in his life. Since music is integral to this screenplay as well as to Verdi's imagination, readers are directed to specific musical excerpts on a companion website. Illustrations, photographs, an Introduction, Afterword, and more than seventy historical notes complete this unique biography of Verdi."I enjoyed the screenplay. It is so well researched, and takes its subject so seriously, that it never underestimates the viewer. - Ira Siff, Commentator, Metropolitan Opera broadcasts "You have done a very fine job in depicting a challenging and complex subject. The drama is well wrought, using the Requiem as its architecture; and it is impressively researched. I have no difficulty with some of the imagined characters and situations, for after all, this is a form of theatrical expression and not designed to be a documentary, no matter how factual much of this is." - James Keolker, Professor of Opera Studies, Fromm Institute, University of San Francisco"I liked your title, Verdi's Dream, which states so unequivocally that within limits you have imagined what people say and think. And I liked very much the focus held throughout on the Requiem. That held all together and built tension. . . . At the end I was gripped, reading on and on." - George Martin, Verdi: His Music, Life and Times

How long is Verdi's Dream?

Verdi's Dream by Joseph Cone is 140 pages long, and a total of 35,000 words.

This makes it 47% the length of the average book. It also has 43% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Verdi's Dream Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 11 minutes to read Verdi's Dream aloud.

What Reading Level is Verdi's Dream?

Verdi's Dream is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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