VERDI AND LA FENICE

To commemorate Verdi, the Teatro La Fenice has published all the Verdi papers from its archives. The papers concern the Verdi operas expressly composed for the Venetian opera house: Ernani, Attila, Rigoletto, La Traviata, and Simon Boccanegra. Verdi and La Fenice includes reproductions and original sources and documents: autograph letters, playbills for first performances, photographs of Verdi and the leading singers in his operas, frontispieces for the librettos, and first pages of scores with hand-written notations by the composer.

The material was chosen and arranged by the Director of the Historical Archives at the Teatro La Fenice, Franco Rossi, who also contributed the introductory essay. Maria Ida Biggi, professor of History of Scenography at the University Ca'Foscari, Venice, deals with the section of the book illustrating the stage designs and all the iconographic material--designs for sets, costumes and props, as well as stage models. Part of the proceeds from this publication will go toward the restoration of the Teatro La Fenice after the devastating fire of 1996.

Verdi and La Fenice was graciously purchased by the Friends of the Library.

Bound in leather with gilt impressions and tooling, issued in a leather-bound case.

Limited edition of 1,999 copies. 

Con Spec Coll Osize   ML410.V4 V29313 2000 

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