From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15671 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Thursday, March 6 2025 Volume 14 : Number 15671 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Time to Rediscover the Remedies That Built the Frontier ["Lost Frontier" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2025 20:29:21 +0100 From: "Lost Frontier" Subject: Time to Rediscover the Remedies That Built the Frontier Time to Rediscover the Remedies That Built the Frontier http://glucofreeze.sa.com/SEF1R12h8zBLLOqGGVmLWrDL4XEwFYJ2e0eJ7joPcrQsYGTFDg http://glucofreeze.sa.com/yr67OkrGwEAqCPAxNJVhZI6LgXaT1RvVFEE2Q_dSly7PoFAcQw mber 1866 Verdi wrote to Giovanni Ricordi, offering the Milan publisher the Italian rights, but insisting that the opera: must be performed in its entirety as it will be performed for the first time at the Paris OpC)ra. Don Carlos is an opera in five acts with ballet: if nevertheless the management of Italian theatres would like to pair it with a different ballet, this must be placed either before or after the uncut opera, never in the middle, following the barbarous custom of our day. However, the Italian translation was first performed not in Italy but in London at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 4 June 1867, where it was produced and conducted by Michael Costa. However, it was not as Verdi desired; the opera was given in a cut and altered form, with the first act being removed, the ballet in Act 3 being omitted, and Carlo's aria Io la vidi (originally in Act 1) being moved to Act 3, just before the terzetto. Additionally, the duet between Philip and the Inquisitor was shortened by four lines, and Elisabeth's aria in Act 5 consisted only of part of the middle section and the reprise. The production was initially considered a success, and Verdi sent a congratulatory note to Costa. Later when he learned of the alterations, Verdi was greatly irritated, but Costa's version anticipated revisions Verdi himself would make a few years later in 1882b83. The Italian premiere on 27 October 1867 at the Teatro Comu ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #15671 ***********************************************