Threshold - Intervention (1999 Remix)

PIAVE (Piave) Francesco Maria (18 V 1810, Myrano - 5 III 1876, Milan) - Italian. librettist. From 1848 he was the director of performances and the “poet” (author of the libra.) Of the Fenice theater (Venice), and in 1859–67, the poet of the La Scala theater (Milan). P. is one of the best Italian. 19th century librettists Bright representative of the romantic. directions, he reflected in his work patriotic. sentiment in Italy of the Risorgimento period (nat.-liberate. antifeudal movement against the Austrian oppression, end of the 18th century). He gained particular fame as the author of the libra. operas by J. Verdi - Rigoletto, La Traviata, Hernani, Two Foscari, Simon Boccanegra, The Force of Fate, Macbeth (shared with A. Maffei), and others. P. also wrote the operas of S. Mercadante, J. Pacini, F. Ricci and other Italian composers.