Not only Giuseppe Verdi. The unpublished librettos by Francesco Maria Piave

 Portrait of Francesco Maria Piave
Category: 
Exhibitions
When: 
9 Mar 2013 - 7 Jan 2014
Time: 

from April 1st to October 31st
10 am – 5 pm (ticket office 10 am – 4.30 pm)

from November 1st to March 31st
10 am – 4 pm (ticket office 10 am – 3.30 pm)

Closed on Wednesdays, December 25th, January 1st and May 1st

Francesco Maria Piave (Murano, 1810 – Milan, 1876), was a celebrated librettist and composer from Murano, whose most prolific work was for Giuseppe Verdi, for whom he wrote ten librettos, including for “La dame aux camélias” by Alexandre Dumas.

The Casa Goldoni has a precious and unpublished collection of 20 autograph librettos by Piave, which come from the Museo del Vetro di Murano, to which they were donated by the family.

The bicentenary of Verdi’s birth, which takes place this year, provides the opportunity to display these rare pieces that represent a fundamental element to investigate the cultural, human, social and political relationship between the librettist and Verdi himself.

 

Carlo Goldoni’s House
San Polo 2794,
30125 Venice
T +39 041 2759325
F +39 041 2440081
segreteria.casagoldoni@fmcvenezia.it