Il Travatore and the belcantist libretto / Il Trovatore e o libreto belcantista

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2009

RESUMO

Opera has always had, since its first years, a great importance to society, as a source of leisure and as a transmitter of the thoughts of a time. And the last characteristic is the one which Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), the most important theorist of Risorgimento, considered essential: opera would be able to pass to its listeners the risorgimentali ideals. In order to do that, it was necessary that librettists and composers were engaged in this cause. That was the case of one the most representatives librettists of the 19th century, Salvatore Cammarano (1801-1852), prolific author, who wrote librettos for several composers in almost twenty years of a career. Given his importance to opera history, as one of its most active creators, he was chosen as the main object of our research. We chose to study, among more than thirty librettos written by Cammarano, the work that we consider the synthesis of the period: Il Trovatore (1853), opera in four parts set to music by Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901). Il Trovatore seems essential to us in order to go further in our understanding of Italian Romanticism. In a time when the novel tried to fix itself, opera had a fundamental participation in spreading not only the risorgimentali ideals, as already said, but also the Romantic elements present in the age. In opera, the period which coincides with the European Romanticism is usually called late Bel Canto, and its limit dates are 1823 (when Semiramide, by Gioacchino Rossini and Gaetano Rossi was premièred ) and 1853 (with Il Trovatore). Among the objectives of our research is to provide a study in Portuguese about libretto, since the literature related to this subject is scarce in our language. Besides, we wanted to make an overview of the evolution of operatic text over time, showing differences and points of view, culminating in the last work of Cammarano, which we analyzed more profoundly

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opera - libretos bel canto opera bel canto

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