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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 Making use of primary source material, including unpublished musical works, journal articles and rare documents and images, Sala's close examination of the incidental music of La Dame aux camélias - and its musical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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Music --- -Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- History and criticism --- Verdi, Giuseppe --- -Criticism and interpretation --- -History and criticism --- Criticism --- Verdi, Giuseppe, --- Verdi, Dzhuzepe, --- Verdi, Fortunino Giuseppe Francesco, --- Verdis, Dž., --- Verdi, G. --- Verudi, G., --- Wei'erdi, --- ליאונקובלו, ר. --- רדדי, ג. --- ڤيردي، جيوسپي، --- Verdi, József, --- Verdi, Jakab, --- Verdi, Joseph, --- Verdi, Giuseppo, --- Verdi, D., --- Verdi, Dzh., --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Gallico, Claudio --- Addresses, essays, lectures --- Verdi, Dzhuzepe --- Verdi, Fortunino Giuseppe Francesco --- Verdis, Dž. --- Verudi, G. --- Wei'erdi --- Verdi, József --- Verdi, Jakab --- Verdi, Joseph --- Verdi, Giuseppo --- Verdi, D. --- Verdi, Dzh.

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In these essays, Roger Parker brings a series of valuable insights to bear on Verdian analysis and criticism, and does so in a way that responds both to an opera-goer's love of musical drama and to a scholar's concern for recent critical trends. As he writes at one point: "opera challenges us by means of its brash impurity, its loose ends and excess of meaning, its superfluity of narrative secrets." Verdi's works, many of which underwent drastic revisions over the years and which sometimes bore marks of an unusual collaboration between composer and librettist, illustrate in particular why it can sometimes be misleading to assign fixed meanings to an opera. Parker instead explores works like Rigoletto, Il trovatore, La forza del destino, and Falstaff from a variety of angles, and addresses such contentious topics as the composer's involvement with Italian politics, the possibilities of an "authentic" staging of his work, and the advantages and pitfalls of analyzing his operas according to terms that his contemporaries might have understood. Parker takes into account many of the interdisciplinary influences currently engaging musicologists, in particular narrative and feminist theory. But he also demonstrates that close attention to the documentary evidence--especially that offered by autograph scores--can stimulate equal interpretive activity. This book serves as a model of research and critical thinking about opera, while nevertheless retaining a deep respect for opera's continuing power to touch generations of listeners.

Opera --- Verdi, Giuseppe, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Verdi, Dzhuzepe, --- Verdi, Fortunino Giuseppe Francesco, --- Verdis, Dž., --- Verdi, G. --- Verudi, G., --- Wei'erdi, --- ליאונקובלו, ר. --- רדדי, ג. --- ڤيردي، جيوسپي، --- Verdi, József, --- Verdi, Jakab, --- Verdi, Joseph, --- Verdi, Giuseppo, --- Verdi, D., --- Verdi, Dzh., --- Verdi, Giuseppe --- Criticism and interpretation --- Italy --- 19th century