The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La traviata - Rilegato

Sala, Emilio

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ISBN 10: 1107009014 ISBN 13: 9781107009011

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2013

Riassunto

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 Making use of primary source material, including unpublished musical works, journal articles and rare documents and images, Sala's close examination of the incidental music of La Dame aux camélias - and its musical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.

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Recensione:

'An intriguing and well-written work of musical detection, [excellently] translated.' Classical Music

'Sala's methodology draws on both ethnomusicology and musicology in his endeavours to consider the 'contextualization of the text' as much as the 'textualization of the context'. In this finely controlled and often intriguing analysis, he undoubtedly succeeds in demonstrating La traviata not just as a product of Verdi's imagination, but as a subtle refashioning of the sounds of Paris itself in the 1840s and 1850s.' Susan Rutherford, Music and Letters

Descrizione del libro:

Emilio Sala re-examines Verdi's La traviata in the cultural context of mid-nineteenth-century Paris. Including unpublished musical works, journal articles, rare documents and images, the book explores Verdi's influences in the French capital, particularly that of Alexandre Dumas fils' La Dame aux camélias.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1107009014
• ISBN 13: 9781107009011
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 224