Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
82
Language
English
Published
Feb 7, 2011
Publisher
Overture Publishing
ISBN-10
0714544094
ISBN-13
9780714544090
Description
In this guide, Julian Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and how, in some previously unpublished letters, Verdi fought their views on casting the leading lady. Denis Arnold contributes a musical commentary. April FitzLyon discusses the social background of the 'lady of the camellias' in fact, fiction and on the stage, and Nicholas John compares the libretto with the play to show how skilfully it was adapted for the operatic stage.
Genres
Science Fiction