This involved changes to the stylistic features of the closed number melodrama prevalent in Italy in 1830-40: the solo arias expand and enrich, the duets and trios become more complex, the connections that bind the individual musical numbers become more flexible and less linked to the then prevailing poetics.
This is an aspect on which it would be worth reflecting in a note specifically to the stage direction as well as to the opera's dramaturgy.
Thus, he focused more than on the historical context and the frequent changes of environment, on personal conflicts, carefully controlling the complex sequence of actions necessary to bring the characters to intense confrontations. After Nabucco and I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata, both composed on commission from Teatro alla Scala, Verdi worked for a smaller theatre and on a smaller stage compared to the maximum Milanese scene. Parker notes acutely, that the subject was not chosen by Verdi but by the Teatro La Fenice, on the wave of the great success - European, not only French - of the 'tragedy in five acts' Hernani by Victor Hugo. It is useful to remember what British musicologist Roger Parker wrote he is a Verdi specialist, distinguished and distant from the 'Italian schools' that often exalt the composer by placing him in a Risorgimento light. The opera will remain on stage until 11 June. The winter season of the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma ended on 3 June 2022, the opening night of Ernani, the fifth opera by a then young Giuseppe Verdi it had successfully debuted at La Fenice on 9 March 1844, an opera conceived, therefore, for a small theatre. A Revolutionary Score GIUSEPPE PENNISI was in the audience for Verdi's 'Ernani', back in Rome
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