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Author: Burton D. Fisher Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing ISBN: 0977132072 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 112
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Verdi's LA TRAVIATA, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples."
Author: Burton D. Fisher Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing ISBN: 0977132072 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 112
Book Description
A comprehensive guide to Verdi's LA TRAVIATA, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 30 music highlight examples."
Author: Emilio Sala Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 110724451X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 223
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How did Paris and its musical landscape influence Verdi's La traviata? In this book, Emilio Sala re-examines La traviata in the cultural context of the French capital in the mid-nineteenth century. Verdi arrived in Paris in 1847 and stayed for almost two years: there, he began his relationship with Giuseppina Strepponi and assiduously attended performances at the popular theatres, whose plays made frequent use of incidental music to intensify emotion and render certain dramatic moments memorable to the audience. It is in one of these popular theatres that Verdi probably witnessed one of the first performances of Dumas fils' La Dame aux camélias, which became hugely successful in 1852. Making use of primary source material, including unpublished musical works, journal articles and rare documents and images, Sala's close examination of the incidental music of La Dame aux camélias - and its musical context - offers an invaluable interpretation of La traviata's modernity.
Author: Becca Marriott Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1786826674 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 75
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The acclaimed company behind the Olivier Award nominated ('Best New Opera, 2018') production of La bohème present a radical reimagining of Verdi's incendiary tale of sex, class and power, La Traviata. England, 2018. Violetta earns her crust dancing for the rich and powerful at an exclusive gentleman's club until a chance meeting with naive and idealistic Elijah changes everything. The powerful collide with the powerless, with earth shattering consequences for all involved. Combining Verdi's breathtaking music with a new English version from Becca Marriott and Helena Jackson, this is La Traviata exposed, uncovered and redefined for the twenty first century.
Author: Abramo Basevi Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022609507X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 311
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Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi’s operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer’s career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi’s operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857—from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, La traviata, and Aroldo. But while Basevi’s work is still widely cited and discussed—and nowhere more so than in the English-speaking world—no translation of the entire volume has previously been available. The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi fills this gap, at the same time providing an invaluable critical apparatus and commentary on Basevi’s work. As a contemporary of Verdi and a trained musician, erudite scholar, and critic conversant with current and past operatic repertories, Basevi presented pointed discussion of the operas and their historical context, offering today’s readers a unique window into many aspects of operatic culture, and culture in general, in Verdi’s Italy. He wrote with precision on formal aspects, use of melody and orchestration, and other compositional features, which made his study an acknowledged model for the growing field of music criticism. Carefully annotated and with an engaging introduction and detailed glossary by editor Stefano Castelvecchi, this translation illuminates Basevi’s musical and historical references as well as aspects of his language that remain difficult to grasp even for Italian readers. Making Basevi’s important contribution to our understanding of Verdi and his operas available to a broad audience for the first time, The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi will delight scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.
Author: Francesco Maria Piave Publisher: ISBN: 1434434737 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 56
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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (1813-1901) was an Italian Romantic opera composer, best known for Rigoletto, Aida, and La Traviata -- which follows the life, lioves and death of a courtesan, Violetta, from tuberculosis. Francesco Maria Piave (1810-1876) was an Italian opera librettist who worked with many of the significant composers of his day, writing 10 libretti for Verdi.
Author: Giuseppi Verdi Publisher: ISBN: 9781493664603 Category : Languages : en Pages : 26
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THE PLOT. In "La Traviata" we have portrayed the life of Violetta Valery, a gay and thoughtless beauty, the admiration of a circle of admirers, among whom is Alfredo Germont, whose passion assumes such intensity and candour that Violetta yields to its influence, and becomes, for a while, imbued with the feelings of a pure love. At the end of the First Act, the scene of which is laid in Violetta's house in Paris, Violetta realises the hollowness of the joy of the life she is leading. In the Second Act, the scene is laid in Violetta's house in the country. Here she and her lover are living in seclusion and contentment until Alfredo learns, by accident, that Violetta, in order now to maintain this establishment, has been disposing of her property. Stung by the dependent position he finds he has been occupying, he leaves hurriedly to obtain the necessary funds to wipe out, as he thinks, the disgrace. During his absence his father makes an appeal to Violetta to save Alfredo from ruin, and his father and sister from disgrace, by renouncing him. Violetta is at first terribly shaken at such a prospect, but her pure affection triumphs, and she consents to sacrifice her own happiness to ensure that of the only being she ever truly loved; she consequently flees to Paris, and resumes her old life among her old acquaintances. Alfredo and Violetta again meet in the rich saloons of a mutual friend in Paris, where he finds Violetta under the protection of Barone Douphol. Alfredo is not aware of the purity of Violetta's motive in leaving him, and, in a paroxysm of unmanly rage, terribly insults her before the assembled guests. In the last Act, we are shown the shocking sequel to the previous ones. Violetta, heart-broken, spirit-crushed, and emaciated, is just winning her way to the realm of hopes and fears. Alfredo's father, struck, perhaps, with remorse at having caused Violetta to promise to leave Alfredo without letting him know the real reason, has informed his son of Violetta's truth and fidelity. Alfredo hurries to the bedside, but only, alas, to snatch a few minutes of blissful return of the love of happier times, when death leaves him desolate.
Author: Burton D. Fisher
Author: Burton D. Fisher
Author: Emilio Sala
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Author: Becca Marriott
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Author: Abramo Basevi
Author: Francesco Maria Piave
Author: Giuseppi Verdi