Francesco Maria Piave
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Francesco Maria Piave was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
Francesco Maria Piave
Piave's grave at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan
Caricature of Piave as "a theatrical jack-of-all-trades", after 1861
Macbeth (Verdi)
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Macbeth is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi, with an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave and additions by Andrea Maffei, based on William Shakespeare's play of the same name. Written for
Francesco Maria Piave
…following Salvadore Cammarano as Verdi's main mid-career librettist, Piave firstly wrote Ernani in 1844, and then I due Foscari (1844), Attila (1846), Macbeth (the 1847 first version), Il Corsaro (1848), Stiffelio (1850), Rigoletto (1851), La traviata (1853), Simon Boccanegra (the 1857 first version), Aroldo…
Illustration by Frédéric Lix of the 1865 version's première
Andrea Maffei, 1862
Verdi in 1859
Poster for the premiere of Verdi's Macbeth