![]() ![]() Verdi wanted to set the Opera in a contemporary time-frame. The first part of the second Act is outside Paris, in a beautiful Villa. In the center of the city on the wealthy part of the street. They married on August 29, 1859, and they lived happily together until the death of Giuseppina in 1897.īackground – The Opera La Traviata is set in… Paris. While the famous composer could overlook the pity-minded neighbors, Giuseppina obviously took a harder blow. They weren’t married, and Giuseppina, being a singer and as such more or less a prostitute in the eyes of the everyday village community, was looked upon as something of a man-eater. When they formed a regular family back in Buseto, Italy, the local bigoted community wasn’t all that impressed. The two had a long professional collaboration, but they also mixed their feelings of passion for each other into the relationship, and soon they were a couple. She was a great primadonna at the height of her career, and she was beautiful with many lovers and admirers. He buried himself in work and in just five years, from 1842 to 1847, he wrote ten operas.ĭuring this time he met Giuseppina Strepponi. So Verdi must have been quite devastated having lost his whole family in just a few years. ![]() Together they had two children, who both died at a young age and before the death of Margherita. ![]() His first wife, Margherita Balezzia, died in 1840. Giuseppe Verdi lived through something that vaguely resembles the story in La Traviata. ![]()
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