- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Editor’s Introduction
- Glossary
- Editorial Note
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
-
1 Nabucodonosor -
2 I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata -
3 Ernani -
4 I Due Foscari -
5 Giovanna D’Arco -
6 Alzira -
7 Attila -
8 Macbeth -
9 I Masnadieri -
10 Jérusalem -
11 Il Corsaro -
12 La Battaglia Di Legnano -
13 Luisa Miller -
14 Stiffelio -
15 Rigoletto -
16 Il Trovatore -
17 La Traviata -
18 Giovanna De Guzman (Les Vêpres Siciliennes) -
19 Simon Boccanegra -
20 Aroldo - Conclusion
- Index
La Traviata
La Traviata
- Chapter:
- (p.191) 17 La Traviata
- Source:
- The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi
- Author(s):
Abramo Basevi
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
This chapter analyzes Verdi's La traviata, first performed in Venice in March 1853. The libretto by Piave was taken from Alexandre Dumas fils' novel and play La dame aux camélias. While the reception at the first performance was not very gratifying, La traviata would go on to become one of the most popular operas in Italy's history. La traviata is a work of a kind that, in the nature of its characters, in its domestic sentiments, and in its lack of spectacle, approaches comedy. Here Verdi began a third manner that in many ways approaches the French genre of opéra comique.
Keywords: Verdi, opera, Italian composers, Piave, libretto, Alexandre Dumas fils, La dame aux camélias, comedy
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Editor’s Introduction
- Glossary
- Editorial Note
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
-
1 Nabucodonosor -
2 I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata -
3 Ernani -
4 I Due Foscari -
5 Giovanna D’Arco -
6 Alzira -
7 Attila -
8 Macbeth -
9 I Masnadieri -
10 Jérusalem -
11 Il Corsaro -
12 La Battaglia Di Legnano -
13 Luisa Miller -
14 Stiffelio -
15 Rigoletto -
16 Il Trovatore -
17 La Traviata -
18 Giovanna De Guzman (Les Vêpres Siciliennes) -
19 Simon Boccanegra -
20 Aroldo - Conclusion
- Index
