La Traviata - Opera Vocal Score. Vocal Score: Opera Completa Per Canto E Pianoforte Vocal Score (Ricordi Opera Vocal Score) - Softcover

Giuseppe Verdi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0634072625 ISBN 13: 9780634072628

Publisher: Ricordi, 1900

Synopsis

The hidden sadness and frustration of living as a moral outcast, the attempt to simulate innocence in frivolous living and the desperate search for relief from pain and anguish, the destruction of all hope in an unrealistic love affair... this is Violetta Valery. Verdi penetrated the tormented sensitivity of her soul as he visualized her in his music, transforming her individual fate into a universal representation of human suffering. His compassion for her, however, met with bigoted censure: the bourgeois public, scandalized by the presence of a kept woman as a character on the stage, gave the opera an icy reception at its premiere in Venice (Teatro La Fenice, 6 March 183).Certainly an inferior cast for the occasion did little to help. Only the following year, when La traviata was revived for another production in Venice (Teatro San Benedetto), did the tale of Violetta manage to overcome this prejudice and win the unconditional esteem it so deserves.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ricordi
• Publication date: 1900
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0634072625
• ISBN 13: 9780634072628
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400