La Traviata; English National Opera Guide 5

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• ISBN13: 9780714544090
• ISBN10: 0714544094
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2011-02-07
• Publisher: Oneworld Classics

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Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviataand how, in some previously unpublished letters, Verdi fought their views on casting the leading lady.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.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vi
Introduction	p. 7
Verdi and the Singers for 'La Traviata'	p. 9
La Traviata: from Real Life to Opera	p. 17
Alexandre Dumas the Younger and 'La Dame aux Camelias' April FitsLyon	p. 29
An Introduction to the Libretto	p. 35
Thematic Guide	p. 37
La Traviata	p. 43
Libretto
	p. 53
	p. 53
	p. 69
Discography	p. 76
Bibliography	p. 80
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