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The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La traviata

Author : Emilio Sala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110724451X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Sounds of Paris in Verdi's La traviata written by Emilio Sala and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Making use of primary source material, including unpublished musical works, journal articles and rare documents and images, Sala's close examination of the incidental music of La Dame aux camélias - and its musical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.

Verdi's Opera La Traviata

Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verdi's Opera La Traviata written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vocal Virtuosity

Author : Sean M. Parr
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197542646
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Vocal Virtuosity written by Sean M. Parr and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction. Coloratura and Female Vocality -- The New Franco-Italian School of Singing -- Verdi and the End of Italian Coloratura -- Melismatic Madness and Technology -- Caroline Carvalho and Her World -- Carvalho, Gounod, and the Waltz -- Vestiges of Virtuosity : The French Coloratura Soprano -- Epilogue. Unending Coloratura.

The Real Traviata

Author : René Weis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191018163
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Real Traviata written by René Weis and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Real Traviata is the rags-to-riches story of a tragic young woman whose life inspired one of the most famous operas of all time, Verdi's masterpiece La traviata, as well as one of the most scandalous and successful French novels of the nineteenth century, La Dame aux Camélias, by Alexandre Dumas fils. The woman at the centre of the story, Marie Duplessis, escaped from her life as an abused teenage girl in provincial Normandy, rising in an amazingly short space of time to the apex of fashionable life in nineteenth century Paris, where she was considered the queen of the Parisian courtesans. Her life was painfully short, but by sheer willpower, intelligence, talent, and stunning looks she attained such prominence in the French capital that ministers of the government and even members of the French royal family fell under her spell. In the 1840s, she commanded the kind of 'paparazzi' attention that today we associate only with major royalty or the biggest Hollywood stars. Aside from the younger Dumas, her conquests included a host of writers and artists, including the greatest pianist of the century, Franz Liszt, with whom she once hoped to elope. When she died Théophile Gautier, one of the most important Parisian writers of the day, penned an obituary fit for a princess. Indeed, he boldly claimed that she had been a princess, notwithstanding her peasant origin and her distinctly demi-monde existence. And although now largely forgotten, in the years immediately after her death, Marie's legend if anything grew in stature, with her immortalization in Verdi's La traviata, an opera in which the great Romantic composer tried to capture her essence in some of the most heart-wrenching and lyrical music ever composed.

Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology

Author : Matthew Gelbart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190646926
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology written by Matthew Gelbart and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: European Romanticism gave rise to a powerful discourse equating genres to constrictive rules and forms that great art should transcend; and yet without the categories and intertextual references we hold in our minds, "music" would be meaningless noise. Musical Genre and Romantic Ideology teases out that paradox, charting the workings and legacies of Romantic artistic values such as originality and anti-commercialism in relation to musical genre. Genre's persistent power was amplified by music's inevitably practical social, spatial, and institutional frames. Furthermore, starting in the nineteenth century, all music, even the most anti-commercial, was stamped by its relationship to the marketplace, entrenching associations between genres and target publics (whether based on ideas of nation, gender, class, or more subtle aspects of identity). These newly strengthened correlations made genre, if anything, more potent rather than less, despite Romantic claims. In case studies from across nineteenth-century Europe engaging with canonical music by Bizet, Chopin, Verdi, Wagner, and Brahms, alongside representative genres such as opéra-comique and the piano ballade, Matthew Gelbart explores the processes through which composers, performers, critics, and listeners gave sounds, and themselves, a sense of belonging. He examines genre vocabulary and discourse, the force of generic titles, how avant-garde music is absorbed through and into familiar categories, and how interpretation can be bolstered or undercut by genre agreements. Even in a modern world where transcription and sound recording can take any music into an infinite array of new spatial and social situations, we are still locked in the Romantics' ambivalent tussle with genre.

Verdi’s Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz

Author : Caroline Anne Ellsmore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351731637
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Verdi’s Exceptional Women: Giuseppina Strepponi and Teresa Stolz written by Caroline Anne Ellsmore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This investigation offers new perspectives on Giuseppe Verdi’s attitudes to women and the functions which they fulfilled for him. The book explores Verdi’s professional and personal relationship with women who were exceptional within the traditional socio-sexual structure of patria potestà, in the context of women’s changing status in nineteenth-century Italian society. It focusses on two women; the singers Giuseppina Strepponi, who supported and enhanced Verdi’s creativity at the beginning of his professional life and Teresa Stolz, who sustained his sense of self-worth at its end. Each was an essential emotional benefactor without whom Verdi’s career would not have been the same. The subject of the Strepponi-Verdi marriage and the impact of Strepponi’s past deserve further detailed and nuanced discussion. This book demonstrates Verdi’s shifting power-balance with Strepponi as she sought to retain intellectual self-respect while his success and control increased. The negative stereotypes concerning operatic ‘divas’ do not withstand scrutiny when applied either to Strepponi or to Stolz. This book presents a revisionist appraisal of Stolz through close examination of her letters. Revealing Stolz’s value to Verdi, they also provide contemporary operatic criticism and behind-the-scenes comment, some excerpts of which are published here in English for the first time.

Verdi's Opera la Traviata

Author : Giuseppi Verdi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781493664603
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Verdi's Opera la Traviata written by Giuseppi Verdi and published by . This book was released on 2013-11-02 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PLOT. In "La Traviata" we have portrayed the life of Violetta Valery, a gay and thoughtless beauty, the admiration of a circle of admirers, among whom is Alfredo Germont, whose passion assumes such intensity and candour that Violetta yields to its influence, and becomes, for a while, imbued with the feelings of a pure love. At the end of the First Act, the scene of which is laid in Violetta's house in Paris, Violetta realises the hollowness of the joy of the life she is leading. In the Second Act, the scene is laid in Violetta's house in the country. Here she and her lover are living in seclusion and contentment until Alfredo learns, by accident, that Violetta, in order now to maintain this establishment, has been disposing of her property. Stung by the dependent position he finds he has been occupying, he leaves hurriedly to obtain the necessary funds to wipe out, as he thinks, the disgrace. During his absence his father makes an appeal to Violetta to save Alfredo from ruin, and his father and sister from disgrace, by renouncing him. Violetta is at first terribly shaken at such a prospect, but her pure affection triumphs, and she consents to sacrifice her own happiness to ensure that of the only being she ever truly loved; she consequently flees to Paris, and resumes her old life among her old acquaintances. Alfredo and Violetta again meet in the rich saloons of a mutual friend in Paris, where he finds Violetta under the protection of Barone Douphol. Alfredo is not aware of the purity of Violetta's motive in leaving him, and, in a paroxysm of unmanly rage, terribly insults her before the assembled guests. In the last Act, we are shown the shocking sequel to the previous ones. Violetta, heart-broken, spirit-crushed, and emaciated, is just winning her way to the realm of hopes and fears. Alfredo's father, struck, perhaps, with remorse at having caused Violetta to promise to leave Alfredo without letting him know the real reason, has informed his son of Violetta's truth and fidelity. Alfredo hurries to the bedside, but only, alas, to snatch a few minutes of blissful return of the love of happier times, when death leaves him desolate.

Verdi, Opera, Women

Author : Susan Rutherford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107043824
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Verdi, Opera, Women written by Susan Rutherford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue : Verdi and his audience -- War -- Prayer -- Romance -- Sexuality -- Marriage -- Death -- Laughter.

Musical Listening in the Age of Technological Reproduction

Author : Gianmario Borio
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317091442
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Musical Listening in the Age of Technological Reproduction written by Gianmario Borio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is undeniable that technology has made a tangible impact on the nature of musical listening. The new media have changed our relationship with music in a myriad of ways, not least because the experience of listening can now be prolonged at will and repeated at any time and in any space. Moreover, among the more striking social phenomena ushered in by the technological revolution, one cannot fail to mention music’s current status as a commodity and popular music’s unprecedented global reach. In response to these new social and perceptual conditions, the act of listening has diversified into a wide range of patterns of behaviour which seem to resist any attempt at unification. Concentrated listening, the form of musical reception fostered by Western art music, now appears to be but one of the many ways in which audiences respond to organized sound. Cinema, for example, has developed specific ways of combining images and sounds; and, more recently, digital technology has redefined the standard forms of mass communication. Information is aestheticized, and music in turn is incorporated into pre-existing symbolic fields. This volume - the first in the series Musical Cultures of the Twentieth Century - offers a wide-ranging exploration of the relations between sound, technology and listening practices, considered from the complementary perspectives of art music and popular music, music theatre and multimedia, composition and performance, ethnographic and anthropological research.

Verdi's La Traviata

Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022426818
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Verdi's La Traviata written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic opera by Giuseppe Verdi, with libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, tells the tragic story of a Parisian courtesan, Violetta, who falls in love with a young nobleman, Alfredo. Their happiness is short-lived when Alfredo's father convinces Violetta to end the relationship for the sake of the family's reputation. La Traviata is a timeless tale of love, sacrifice, and redemption set to some of Verdi's most beautiful music. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Feasting & Fasting in Opera

Author : Pierpaolo Polzonetti
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022680500X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book Feasting & Fasting in Opera written by Pierpaolo Polzonetti and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feasting and Fasting in Operashows that the consumption of food and drink is an essential component of opera, both on and off stage. In this book, opera scholar Pierpaolo Polzonetti explores how convivial culture shaped the birth of opera and opera-going rituals until the mid-nineteenth century, when eating and drinking at the opera house were still common. Through analyses of convivial scenes in operas, the book also shows how the consumption of food and drink, and sharing or the refusal to do so, define characters’ identity and relationships. Feasting and Fasting in Opera moves chronologically from around 1480 to the middle of the nineteenth century, when Wagner’s operatic reforms banished refreshments during the performance and mandated a darkened auditorium and absorbed listening. The book focuses on questions of comedy, pleasure, embodiment, and indulgence—looking at fasting, poisoning, food disorders, body types, diet, and social, ethnic, and gender identities—in both tragic and comic operas from Monteverdi to Puccini. Polzonetti also sheds new light on the diet Maria Callas underwent in preparation for her famous performance as Violetta, the consumptive heroine of Verdi’s La traviata. Neither food lovers nor opera scholars will want to miss Polzonetti’s page-turning and imaginative book.

Verdi and the Art of Italian Opera

Author : Steven Huebner
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1648250408
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Verdi and the Art of Italian Opera written by Steven Huebner and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Verdi's art emerged from a rich array of dramatic and musical practices operative in the Italy of his day. Drawing the reader into his creative world, this study (translated from the French original by the author himself) begins where Verdi began when it came time to set notes to paper: the libretto. Designed for the non-Italophone reader, Steven Huebner's Verdi and the Art of Italian Opera explains key principles of Italian poetry that shaped his music. From there, Huebner outlines the various musical textures available to the composer, including an exploration of the characteristics of recitative and aria. Working outward, subsequent chapters explore the syntax of Verdi's melodic writing and the larger-level forms that he used. A concluding chapter considers ways of conceiving musical unity in his operas. Huebner's long-needed study provides significant insights into Verdi's musico-dramatic strategies, pulling together-and making more easily accessible-principles and insights that are spread widely across the scholarly literature. Verdi remains by far the most performed opera composer on world stages today: singers, vocal coaches, stage directors, and opera lovers more generally will welcome this compact perspective on his art"--

Verdi's La Traviata

Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Verdi's La Traviata written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Real Traviata

Author : René Weis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198708548
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book The Real Traviata written by René Weis and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: René Weis is a freelance author and a professor of English at UCL. He has a written on a wide variety of subjects, including Edith Thompson (of the infamous 'Thompson and Bywaters' murder case in the 1920s), the last Cathar insurgency in the Pyrenees in the Middle Ages, and a biography of Shakespeare. As a professional Shakespearian, he has published extensively on Shakespeare and Renaissance drama, his publications including editions of Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Henry IV Part 2, and an Oxford World Classics edition of the works of John Webster. A lifelong lover of opera, he also contributes regular pieces to the programmes for Royal Opera House productions.

Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe

Author : Michael Baumgartner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315298317
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe written by Michael Baumgartner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music, Authorship, Narration, and Art Cinema in Europe: 1940s to 1980s investigates the function of music in European cinema after the Second World War up to the fall of the Berlin wall, a period when composers and directors embraced experimentation. Through analyses of music and sound in a wide range of iconic films from across Europe, the essays in this book provide a nuanced reconsideration of three core themes: auteur theory, art house film, and national cinema. Chapters written by an international array of contributors focus on case studies of music in the cinema of Carlos Saura, Jean-Pierre Melville, the Polish School, and Romanian directors, as well as collaborations between directors and composers, including Michelangelo Antonioni and Giovanni Fusco, Federico Fellini and Nino Rota, Leo Arnshtam and Dmitry Shostakovich, and Peter Greenaway and Michael Nyman. The contributors shift the emphasis from a director-centered view to the working relationship between director and composer, and from the visual component to the sonic aspects of these films, without ignoring the close correlation between soundtrack and visual elements. Enriching our understanding of the complex, intertwined nature of authorship in film, the role of film music, and sound, nation-state and art cinema, and European cinematic history, this volume offers a valuable addition to research across music and film studies.

La Traviata

Author : Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Traviata written by Giuseppe Verdi and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Carmen and the Staging of Spain

Author : Michael Christoforidis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190694831
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Carmen and the Staging of Spain written by Michael Christoforidis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carmen and the Staging of Spain explores the Belle Époque fascination with Spanish entertainment that refashioned Bizet's opera and gave rise to an international "Carmen industry." Authors Michael Christoforidis and Elizabeth Kertesz challenge the notion of Carmen as an unchanging exotic construct, tracing the ways in which performers and productions responded to evolving fashions for Spanish style from its 1875 premiere to 1915. Focusing on selected realizations of the opera in Paris, London and New York, Christoforidis and Kertesz explore the cycles of influence between the opera and its parodies; adaptations in spoken drama, ballet and film; and the panorama of flamenco, Spanish dance, and musical entertainments. Their findings also uncover Carmen's dynamic interaction with issues of Hispanic identity against the backdrop of Spain's changing international fortunes. The Spanish response to this now most-Spanish of operas is illuminated by its early reception in Madrid and Barcelona, adaptations to local theatrical genres, and impact on Spanish composers of the time. A series of Spanish Carmens, from opera singers Elena Sanz and Maria Gay to the infamous music-hall star La Belle Otero, had a crucial influence on the interpretation of the title role. Their stories provide a fresh context for the book's reappraisal of leading Carmens of the era, including Emma Calvé and Geraldine Farrar.