Giuseppe Verdi, La Traviata

by Giuseppe Verdi, LA Traviata Giuseppe Verdi, Francesco Maria Piave

English National Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original. 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Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and how, in some previously unpublished letters, Verdi fought their views on casting the leading lady.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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316568422
• ISBN13: 9780316568425
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 202 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.