Giuseppe Verdi La Traviata Opera - Choral

Brindisi the openning scene from Verdi's opera La Traviata is a sparkling duet and chorus. The opera was based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas La Dame Aux Camelias. La Traviata was premiered in 1853 at La Fenice in Venice and remains to this day one of Verdi's most performed works. This has been written for mixed chorus and Soprano and Tenor Soli with Piano or Orchestra.

Piano Vocal Score and 2 CDs with instrumental and vocal versions-A new collection from Ricordi of Verdi arias produced for Verdis bicentenary in a reduced version for soprano voice and piano together with a brief synopsis and the original lyrics in Italian with an English translation. Each Cantolopera book comeswith two CDs with recordings of the orchestral accompaniment played by the compagnia d`Opera Italiana. an ideal collection for singing teachers and students.Arias from: AIDA; UN BALLO IN MASCHERA; LA BATTAGLIA DI LEGNANO; ERNANI; FALSTAFF; LA FORZA DEL DESTINO; I LOMBARDI ALLA PRIMA CROCIATA; LUISA MILLER; MACBETH; I MASNADIERI; MESSA DA REQUIEM; OTELLO; RIGOLETTO; SIMON BOCCANEGRA; LA TRAVIATA; ILTROVATORE as well as the AVE MARIA.

A cura di F. Della Seta - Riduzione per canto e pianoforte-Ricordi the well-known printer of classical opera presents the works of the great opera composers in its Critical Edition practical series. These revised definitive scores are produced by using all the currently available sources ranging from the original autographs to printed editions in line with strict philological and critical criteria. Each edition has a brief introduction providing the historical context for the opera in question. This series combines the rigour of a critical approach and a practical easy-to-follow editorial lay-out. The hidden sadness and frustration of living as a moral outcast the attempt to simulate innocence infrivolous 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.