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Francesco Maria Piave
Murano, Italy
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Maria_Piave. Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian opera librettist wh…
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Maria_Piave. Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. His career spanned over twenty years working with many of the significant composers of his day, including Giovanni Pacini (four librettos), Saverio Mercadante (at least one), Federico Ricci, and even one for Michael Balfe. He is most well known as Giuseppe Verdi's librettist, for whom he was to write 10 librettos, the most well-known being those for Rigoletto and La traviata. But Piave was not only a librettist: he was a journalist and translator in addition to being the resident poet and stage manager at La Fenice in Venice where he first encountered Verdi. Later, Verdi was helpful in securing him the same position at La Scala in Milan. His expertise as a stage manager and his tact as a negotiator served Verdi very well, but the composer bullied him mercilessly for his pains over many years. Like Verdi, Piave was an ardent Italian patriot, and in 1848, during Milan's "Cinque Giornate," when Radetzky's Austrian troops retreated from the city, Verdi wrote to Piave in Venice addressing him as "Citizen Piave." Together, they worked on ten operas between 1844 and 1862, and Piave would have also prepared the libretto for Aida when Verdi accepted the commission for it in 1870, had he not suffered a stroke which left him paralyzed and unable to speak. Verdi helped to support his wife and daughter, proposing that "an album of pieces by famous composers be compiled and sold for Piave's benefit". The composer paid for his funeral when he died nine years later in Milan aged 65 and arranged for his burial at the Monumental Cemetery.
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2026
Simon Boccanegra – Dutch National Opera and Ballet
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2025
Attila
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2025
La Traviata
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2022
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
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2022
Verdi: La forza del destino
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2021
La Traviata - Wiener Staatsoper
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2021
Rigoletto
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2019
Royal Opera House: La Forza del Destino
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2019
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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2019
Royal Opera House: La Traviata
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2019
Verdi: Macbeth
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2018
La Traviata
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2018
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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2018
Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata
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2018
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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2018
Rigoletto (Teatro Massimo di Palermo)
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2017
The ROH Live: Rigoletto
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2017
Rigoletto
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2017
Ernani
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2017
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
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2017
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
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2016
La Traviata
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2016
Rigoletto - Opéra National de Paris
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2016
Giuseppe Verdi: I due Foscari
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2016
Macbeth
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2015
Verdi: La traviata
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2015
La Traviata
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2015
La Traviata
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2015
Verdi's La Traviata - English National Opera
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2015
Verdi: Rigoletto
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2014
The Metropolitan Opera - Verdi: Macbeth
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2014
Verdi La Forza del Destino
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2013
Teatro alla Scala: La Traviata
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2013
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
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2012
Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata
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2012
San Francisco Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto
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2012
Verdi: Stiffelio
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2012
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
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2012
Verdi: La Traviata
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2012
Verdi: Ernani
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