Author: Piave, introduction by Gary Schmidgall, Giuseppe Verdi,
Title: La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi: Metropolitan Opera Classics Library.
Description: Boston, Little Brown, (1983). 1st ed. VG lg sz PB. Series created to honor the 100th anniversasry the Metropolitan Opera and to bring to readers a greater appreciation of opera. as literature. La Traviata is one of the most frequently performed of Verdi operas, also the most colorful, psychologically complex and autobiographically resonsnt of the composer's entire career. Based on La Dame aux camelias by Alexandre Dumas, the text of which is included in this volume, modeled on Dumas' relationship to the famous French courtesan Alphonsine Duplessis and on Verdi's love for Giuseppina Strepponi with whom he lived openly for many years before they married. Schmidgel provides a biographical study of Verdi's life and his indebtedness to Dumas while David Hamilton writes an illuminating analysis of the music of the opera.

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