La traviata /
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| Author / Creator: | Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901 |
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| Uniform title: | Traviata. Libretto. English & Italian |
| Imprint: | London : J. Calder ; New York : Riverrun Press, 1981. |
| Description: | 80 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English Italian |
| Series: | English National Opera guide 5 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/546264 |
| Summary: | English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. In this Guide, Julian Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and how, in some previously unpublished letters, Verdi fought their views on casting the leading lady. Denis Arnold contributes a musical commentary. April FitzLyon discusses the social background of the "lady of the camellias" in fact, fiction and on the stage, and Nicholas John compares the libretto with the play to show how skilfully it was adapted to for the operatic stage. |
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| Item Description: | Includes libretto in Italian by Francesco Maria Piave, with English version by Edmund Tracey, and commentary. |
| Physical Description: | 80 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Discography: p. 76-79. Bibliography: p. 80. |
| ISBN: | 0714538485 |