VERDI Giuseppe (1813-1901)

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VERDI Giuseppe (1813-1901)
L.A.S. "G. Verdi", Sant'Agata 22 May 1887, to Dr. Cesare VIGNA; 1 page and a half in-8 (some small wormholes); in Italian. Cesare VIGNA (1819-1892), an alienist physician, was a music critic at the Gazzetta musicale di Milano, and a friend of Verdi's who dedicated La Traviata to him. This letter refers to Otello, who was born in Milan on February 5, 1887, and to the hospital in Villanova sull'Arda that Verdi was then having built in his town, and which opened in November 1888]. The Otello in Venice was a family affair! It worked. If the public didn't rush to the premiere, it meant that Venice was not trusted like, for example, Milan. And already in Milan, there were no precedents! ("So dell' Otello a Venezia... Une serata di famiglia!... e stà bene.- Se il pubblico non si è affrettato per la 1a rappresentazione, vuol dire che a Venezia non si aveva quella fiducia che si aveva per es. a Milano. E si che a Milano non v'erano precedenti!"). Capelli has given instructions and everything is going normally; Peppina is handed over. As for the beds, he has seen those that Capelli had made at the hospital of Genoa, and they seem valid to him. They come from a Florentine manufacturer. As for the nurses, they'll see later. Here, they're doing quite well, and especially quietly... They're in great need of tranquility...
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