Biography
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Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy.
His career spanned over twenty years working with many of the significant composers of his day, including Giovanni Pacini (four librettos), Saverio Mercadante (at least one), Federico Ricci, and even one for Michael Balfe. He is most well known as Giuseppe Verdi's librettist, for whom he was to write 10 librettos, the most well-known being those for Rigoletto and La traviata.
But Piave was not only a librettist: he was a journalist and translator in addition to being the resident poet and stage manager at La Fenice in Venice where he first encountered Verdi. Later, Verdi was helpful in securing him the same position at La Scala in Milan. His expertise as a stage manager and his tact as a negotiator served Verdi very well, but the composer bullied him mercilessly for his pains over many years.
Like Verdi, Piave was an ardent Italian patriot, and in 1848, during Milan's "Cinque Giornate," when Radetzky's Austrian troops retreated from the city, Verdi wrote to Piave in Venice addressing him as "Citizen Piave."
Together, they worked on ten operas between 1844 and 1862, and Piave would have also prepared the libretto for Aida when Verdi accepted the commission for it in 1870, had he not suffered a stroke which left him paralyzed and unable to speak. Verdi helped to support his wife and daughter, proposing that "an album of pieces by famous composers be compiled and sold for Piave's benefit". The composer paid for his funeral when he died nine years later in Milan aged 65 and arranged for his burial at the Monumental Cemetery.
Filmography
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Movies 110
Writer 105
Screenplay 1
Macbeth - Teatro alla Scala (2021)
Rigoletto (2021)
Verdi - Simon Boccanegra (2020)
The ROH Live: La forza del destino (2019)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2019)
The ROH Live: La Traviata (2019)
Verdi: Macbeth (2019)
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (2018)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2018)
Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata (2018)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2018)
Macbeth (2018)
The ROH Live: Rigoletto (2017)
Rigoletto (2017)
Ernani (2017)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2017)
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (2017)
Verdi: La Traviata (2016)
Verdi: I Due Foscari (2016)
Macbeth (2016)
Verdi: Macbeth (2015)
Verdi: La Traviata (2015)
La Traviata (2015)
Verdi : I Due Foscari - Royal Opera House (2015)
Macbeth (2015)
La Traviata (2015)
Verdi's La Traviata - English National Opera (2015)
The Metropolitan Opera: Macbeth (2014)
Verdi La Forza del Destino (2014)
I due Foscari (2013)
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto (2013)
Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata (2012)
San Francisco Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto (2012)
Stiffelio (2012)
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata (2012)
Verdi: Ernani (2012)
I Due Foscari - Verdi (2012)
MacBeth (2011)
La forza del destino (2011)
Attila (2010)
Attila (2010)
Rigoletto (2010)
Rigoletto a Mantova (2010)
Simon Boccanegra (2010)
Simon Boccanegra (2010)
Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera] (2010)
La Traviata (2009)
Macbeth: Opéra National de Paris (2009)
Il corsaro (2008)
Verdi: Rigoletto (Teatro Regio di Parma) (2008)
La Traviata im Hauptbahnhof Zürich (2008)
La Traviata (2008)
Rigoletto - Semperoper Dresden (2008)
The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth (2008)
La Traviata a Paris (2007)
Verdi: La Traviata (Teatro Regio di Parma) (2007)
La forza del destino (2007)
Nabucco (2007)
Verdi: La Traviata (2007)
Rigoletto (2006)
Macbeth (2006)
La Traviata (2006)
La traviata (2005)
Ernani (2005)
Verdi La Traviata (2005)
Rigoletto (2004)
Simon Boccanegra (2002)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (2002)
La Traviata (2002)
Rigoletto (2001)
Rigoletto (2001)
La Traviata (2001)
Macbeth (2001)
Verdi: La Forza del Destino (1997)
Macbeth (1997)
La Forza del Destino - The Met (1996)
Rigoletto (1996)
Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1995)
Rigoletto (1994)
Verdi Stiffelio (1993)
La Traviata (1993)
Verdi La Traviata (1992)
Attila (1991)
Rigoletto (1989)
I due Foscari (1988)
La Traviata (1987)
Verdi: Macbeth (1987)
Macbeth (1987)
Rigoletto (1987)
Verdi Macbeth Chailly (1987)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1985)
Simon Boccanegra (1984)
La Forza del Destino (1984)
Ernani (1983)
La traviata (1982)
Verdi Ernani (1982)
Verdi: Rigoletto (1982)
Rigoletto (1981)
La Traviata - The Met (1981)
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (1978)
Rigoletto (1977)
La Traviata (1976)
La Traviata (1973)
La traviata (1967)
Rigoletto (1955)
La forza del destino (1950)
La signora dalle camelie (1947)
Rigoletto (1946)
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
Álarcosbál (1918)
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GenderMale
Birthday1810-05-18
Deathday1876-03-05 (65 years old)
Birth PlaceMurano, Italy
CitizenshipsKingdom of Italy
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