The Real Traviata

Author : René Weis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198708548
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( 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: The story of Marie Duplessis, the woman who inspired Verdi's La traviata. A rags-to-riches fairytale, from rural poverty to Parisian stardom, which ended in tragedy but gave rise to some of the most heart-wrenching and lyrical music ever composed.

Author : Gaia Servadio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340617182
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Traviata written by Gaia Servadio and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Giuseppina Verdi, the wife of Verdi, a singer and an accomplished actress

Author : Gaia Servadio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Traviata written by Gaia Servadio and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Traviata. (The Lost One.) An opera in three acts [founded on the “Dame aux Camélias” of Alexandre Dumas, the Younger]. written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Julie Kavanagh
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804171556
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Girl Who Loved Camellias written by Julie Kavanagh and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-08-12 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting biography brilliantly explores the short, intense, and passionate life of the country girl from Normandy, who at thirteen fled her brute of a father to go to Paris. Almost overnight she became one of the most admired courtesans of the 1840s—the inspiration for Alexandre Dumas fils’ The Lady of the Camellias and Verdi’s La Traviata. With her aristocratic ways, elegant clothes and signature camellias, Marie was always a subject of fascination at the opera and the boulevard cafés. Her death at twenty-three from tuberculosis created such an outpouring of sympathy in the press that Charles Dickens, who was in Paris at the time, was amazed. “Everything is erased in the face of an incident which is far more important,” he wrote, “the romantic death of one of the glories of the demi-monde, the beautiful, the famous Marie Duplessis.”

Author : Terrence McNally
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822206736
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lisbon Traviata written by Terrence McNally and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: The first act is set in the fussily ornate apartment of Mendy, a ferociously dedicated opera buff who begs and cajoles his friend Stephen to let him borrow his copy of the pirated Maria Callas recording of La Traviata made during

Author : Michael Steen
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848315546
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Verdi's La Traviata written by Michael Steen and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verdi’s now-popular opera was a fiasco in Venice in 1853, attributable perhaps to the prima donna being noticeably obese, despite apparently wasting with tuberculosis. Soon, however, Verdi’s scandalous love story was on stage contemporaneously at Her Majesty’s Theatre, Covent Garden and Drury Lane. Piave’s libretto depicts Violetta and Alfredo Germont, the Marguerite and Armand of The Lady with the Camelias by Alexandre Dumas (son of the author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers). The bestseller was based on the short life of the courtesan Marie Duplessis, mistress of a duke, a viscount and a baron – in Paris the ‘oldest profession’, prostitution, was the only way many women could survive, as Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables depicts. Featuring some of Verdi’s best-loved tunes, such as the ‘Brindisi’ and Violetta’s Sempre libera, La Traviata is enduringly popular. Violetta has been sung by international operatic sopranos such as Patti and Melba, and recently Gheorghiu. Some, like Joan Sutherland, have preferred to stay off-stage and make an opera recording. Domingo and Pavarotti have sung the role of Alfredo. Written by Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, ‘Short Guides to Great Operas’ are concise, entertaining and easy to read. They are packed with useful information and informed opinion, helping to make you a truly knowledgeable opera-goer, and so maximising your enjoyment of a great musical experience. Other ‘Short Guides to Great Operas’ that you may enjoy include Rigoletto, Carmen and La Bohème.

Author : TRAVIATA.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Traviata. (The Lost One.) An opera in three acts [founded on the "Dame aux Camélias" of Alexandre Dumas, the Younger]. written by TRAVIATA. and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Emilio Sala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110724451X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( 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.

Author : Alexandre Dumas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.VX/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camille written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: