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THE SOUNDS OF PARIS IN VERDI’S LA TRAVIATA HowdidParisanditsmusicallandscapeinfluenceVerdi’sLatraviata?Inthisbook, EmilioSalare-examinesLatraviataintheculturalcontextoftheFrenchcapitalin themidnineteenthcentury.VerdiarrivedinParisin1847andstayedforalmost twoyears:there,hebeganhisrelationshipwithGiuseppinaStrepponiand assiduouslyattendedperformancesatthepopulartheatres,whoseplaysmade frequentuseofincidentalmusictointensifyemotionandrendercertaindramatic momentsmemorabletotheaudience.Itwasinoneofthesepopulartheatresthat VerdiprobablywitnessedoneofthefirstperformancesofDumasfils’sLaDameaux camélias,whichbecamehugelysuccessfulin1852.Makinguseofprimarysource material,includingunpublishedmusicalworks,journalarticlesandrare documentsandimages,Sala’scloseexaminationoftheincidentalmusicforLa Dameauxcamélias–anditsmusicalcontext–offersaninvaluableinterpretationof Latraviata’smodernity. emilio sala isAssociateProfessorofMusicalDramaturgyattheUniversityof Milan.Hisresearchfocusesonthemusicaldramaturgyofopera,melodramaand filmmusic,andhispublicationsincludeL’operasenzacanto:Ilméloromanticoe l’invenzionedellacolonnasonora(1995)andIlvalzerdellecamelie:EchidiPariginella Traviata(2008).HehaspublishedarticlesandreviewsinCambridgeOperaJournal, Musicaestoria,Musica/Realtà,Musicalia,OperaQuarterly,Orages,Revuede musicologie,Revued’histoirelittérairedelaFrance,Ilsaggiatoremusicale,Studi verdianiandelsewhere. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN OPERA Serieseditor:ARTHURGROOS,CornellUniversity VolumesforCambridgeStudiesinOperaexplorethecultural,politicalandsocialinflu- encesofthegenre.Asaculturalartform,operaisnotproducedinavacuum.Rather, it is influenced, whether directly or in more subtle ways, by its social and political environment.Inturn,operaleavesitsmarkonsocietyandcontributestoshapingthe culturalclimate.Studiestobeincludedintheserieswilllookatthesevariousrelation- ships including the politics and economics of opera, the operatic representation of women or the singers who portrayed them, the history of opera as theatre and the evolutionoftheoperahouse. Publishedtitles OperaBuffainMozart’sVienna EditedbyMaryHunterandJamesWebster GermanOpera:FromtheBeginningstoWagner JohnWarrack JohannStraussandVienna:OperettaandthePoliticsofPopularCulture CamilleCrittenden OperaandDramainEighteenth-CenturyLondon:TheKing’sTheatre,Garrickand theBusinessofPerformance IanWoodfield Opera,Liberalism,andAntisemitisminNineteenth-CenturyFrance:ThePoliticsof Halévy’sLaJuive DianaR.Hallman ThreeModesofPerceptioninMozart:ThePhilosophical,Pastoral,andComicinCosì fantutte EdmundJ.Goehring LandscapeandGenderinItalianOpera:TheAlpineVirginfromBellinitoPuccini EmanueleSenici AestheticsofOperaintheAncienRégime,1647–1785 DowningA.Thomas ThePucciniProblem:Opera,Nationalism,andModernity AlexandraWilson ThePrimaDonnaandOpera,1815–1930 SusanRutherford OperaandSocietyinItalyandFrancefromMonteverditoBourdieu EditedbyVictoriaJohnson,JaneF.Fulcher,andThomasErtman Wagner’sRingCycleandtheGreeks DanielH.Foster WhenOperaMeetsFilm MarciaJ.Citron SituatingOpera:Period,Genre,Reception HerbertLindenberger RossiniinRestorationParis:TheSoundofModernLife BenjaminWalton ItalianOperaintheAgeoftheAmericanRevolution PierpaoloPolzonetti OperaintheNovelfromBalzactoProust CormacNewark OperaintheAgeofRousseau:Music,Confrontation,Realism DavidCharlton TheSoundsofParisinVerdi’sLatraviata EmilioSala The Sounds of Paris in Verdi’s La traviata Emilio Sala Translated by Delia Casadei cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown, Singapore,SãoPaulo,Delhi,MexicoCity CambridgeUniversityPress TheEdinburghBuilding,Cambridgecb28ru,UK PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107009011 FirstpublishedintheoriginalItalianasIlvalzerdellecamelie:echidiPariginellaTraviata byEmilioSala ©2008EDTsrl Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. FirstpublishedbyCambridgeUniversityPress2013 PrintedandBoundintheUnitedKingdombytheMPGBooksGroup AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationdata Sala,Emilio,1959– [Valzerdellecamelie.English] ThesoundsofParisinVerdi’sLaTraviata/EmilioSala;translatedbyDeliaCasadei. pages cm.–(Cambridgestudiesinopera) Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-00901-1(Hardback) 1. Verdi,Giuseppe,1813–1901.Traviata. 2. Paris(France)inopera. 3. Verdi,Giuseppe, 1813–1901–Travel–France–Paris. I. Casadei,Delia,translator. II. Title. ml410.v4s332013 782.1–dc23 2012043981 isbn978-1-107-00901-1Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceor accuracyofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredto inthispublication,anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Paris was a perpetual hurly-burly; the men and women init were whirledaway by atempestuous waltz. 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