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Friday, 17 June 2016

La Traviata - General Information

The librettist Francesco Maria Piave

General informations
Booklet : Francesco Maria Piave.
Literary sources : Alexandre Dumas (son ) , The Lady of the Camellias.
First performance : March 6, 1853
Place and time setting: Paris and its vicinity, around 1850. (The first act takes place in August, the second in January and the third in February).
Members of the Orchestra
Verdi’s score expects to use:
·    A piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets 2 bassoons
·    4 horns, 2 trumpets, 3 trombones, a cimbasso
·    Timpani, bass drums, cymbals, triangle
·    Arches
Band :
·    2 piccolos, 4 clarinets
·    2 horns, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, cimbasso
·    A bass drum, tambourine, castanets
·    Harp
·    2 basses

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