Composed: 1861. Revised in 1869.

Act I- 0:00
Act II- 0:23:44
Act III- 1:14:24
Act IV- 2:09:02

Nowhere else in Verdi's oeuvre do you find such an intriguing dramatic structure. In La Forza del Destino, the suffering of all three of our central characters is caused by one traumatic event. A terrible case of manslaughter (against a truly depraved father) begins the downward spiral of tragicomic events of pure melodrama. Through Piave's text, but mostly through the touching, devastating music of Verdi's pen, we are brought into the bottomless pits of despair that are our characters' lacerated minds. Verdi attempts to contrast this tragedy with brief comic episodes, a bit like divertissements of French/Russian ballet. All of this makes La Forza possess an incredibly rich and diverse landscape, both dramatically and musically. We see how large the world is in this opera.

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