Traviata, La (English National Opera Guide, #5) (The Works of Giuseppe Verdi, Series 1: Operas, I, Vol 19) (The Works Giuseppe Verdi Series 1:Operas WGV-O (CHUP))

by Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave, Edmund Tracey, and Alexandre Dumas

E. Tracey (Translator)

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reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and how, in some previously unpublished letters, Verdi fought their views on casting the leading lady.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

• ISBN13: 9780714538488
• Publish Date: 1 January 1981
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 8 October 2015
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Alma Books Ltd
• Imprint: Calder Publications Ltd
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 84
• Language: English