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Some Biographical Notes on Mauro Corticelli and a Previously Unpublished Letter to Him from Verdi Martin Chusid New York University Verdi Forum Number 22 Article 3 1-1-2015 Some Biographical Notes on Mauro Corticelli and a Previously Unpublished Letter to Him From Verdi Martin Chusid New York University Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/vf Part of the Musicology Commons Recommended Citation Chusid, Martin (2015) "Some Biographical Notes on Mauro Corticelli and a Previously Unpublished Letter to Him From Verdi," Verdi Forum: No. 22, Article 3. Available at: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/vf/vol1/iss22/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UR Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Verdi Forum by an authorized administrator of UR Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Some Biographical Notes on Mauro Corticelli and a Previously Unpublished Letter to Him From Verdi Keywords Giuseppe Verdi, correspondence This article is available in Verdi Forum: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/vf/vol1/iss22/3 Some Biographical Notes on Mauro Corticelli and a Previously Unpublished Letter to Him From Verdi Martin Chusid auro Conicelli, binh and dealh dates unknown, was a close From Strepponis letters lo him, "Maurone" (Big Mauro) seems to friend ofVerdis second wife, Giuseppina Strepponi Verdi, for have been a heavy, bald, good-nalured man wilh considerable wit and M more than 35 intelligence. And, by lhe years. During the last time he joined the twelve of these (1867- t Verdis, he also knew sev­ 1879), he was also what eral languages. There is Giuseppe Verdi called his a lelter from Strepponi to "uomo d'affari." This him in English fearing meant he helped admin­ . ·,, ; J ,) J 1 his criticism,3 and for a ister the large agricultur - ' b· number of years the al estate of Sant' Agata (-.,...,· Ristori troupe was head­ under the composers quartered in Paris close supervision and ' ( '--... where Corticelli musl assisted Verdi in a multi­ . have learned, or tude of business and per­ .. improved, his French . ( sonal matters as well. In He also seems lo have that capacity he lived at had musical lraining, l~ Sant'Agata as if a member having organized an of the family, taking his - "abbaslanza numeroso" meals with the Verdis. chorus at Sant'Agata for He also seems to have .. which Verdi sought con­ had a room or an apan­ lrapuntal music from ment al lhe Verdis' winter .. - Ricordi in 1871.' place in Genoa. 1 The earliest known doc­ ... Since Conicelli was ......... ument relaling lo active as an adult in fl!..- - --.,... Corticelli dales from 10 Bologna from 1843 to April 1843 in Bologna 1859, and there is a refer­ .....-·- where he had relatives ence lo him suggesting and is presumed to have good health in a letter of been born and brought Verdi to his friend """· ... -J ~1· - up. This is an invitalion Giuseppe Piroli dated _) ~- to become an lspettore­ e,1-- .... -- Oclober 1885,2 we can Aggiunto ai Pubblici presume a fairly long life, Spettacoli (Adjuncl or at leasl by 19th century Assistant Inspector for standards. Public Thealrical Cenainly it was an Performances). He and interesting one. In the the nobleman he assist­ \_,, ___ ' position he held before he / ed, a marchese Pizzardi, "- ' came to Sant'Agata .. '. '-'-" .... - were expected to assure (1859-67), Conicelli was full compliance on the ... ,- -.......... ' an administrator for the v,~-. , part of Bolognese the­ ' C> .,.... - theatrical touring compa­ atres to lhe regulations, ny of the great Italian discipline and both nor­ actress Adelaide Ristori mal and special theatri­ (1822-1906). In that cal practices on behalf of capacity he traveled all the Papal police and ulti- over Europe, from mately the Cardinal­ Portugal and Spain in the Legate who administered West to Russi.a in the East, as well as to England, Egypt, Turkey and the Bologna for the Pope.' As you may recall, during most of the 19th cen­ Americas. tury the Papal States comprised much of central Italy. They extended 17 Manin Chusid 1859 and printed in Frank Walkers The Man Verdi. The relevant section reads: ... God be praised! You are leaving that vicious _.. atmosphere, in which your honest nature could not help but suffer. I told you from the first moment when you plunged into that stinking swamp: 'Corticelli, that's no place for you, no occupation for you!' You could have got out of it sooner, but at any rate you have got out in time ... I I am exceedingly glad that you ... are putting your Id I'- intelligence and probity at [Ristori's] service .... May God always bless her; you and all honest ' .. 1 1-·' f'-"4.,f·(,._ hearts that resemble yours .. When did Strepponi issue her warning? Perhaps it was during the Autumn season of 1843. Nabucco was being performed for the first time in Bologna; Giuseppina sang Abigaille as she had at the premiere :'. ,, ,_ _;- in Milan the year previously, and at Parma the same 8 I I "- - ... ~ year, both under the direction of Verdi. Ispettore­ ,,..--- I ·- Aggiunto Corticelli had complete access to all parts of _.. the Teatro Comunale including back stage; and he , " - certainly would not have missed attending the pre­ miere of the extremely successful opera on 8 October, • A:..\ or a performance shortly thereafter. If not earlier, Verdi met Corticelli in the Autumn of 1850. The composer directed Macbeth at the Comunale, as well as the Bolognese premiere of Luisa Miller. Acting for the ostensibly retired Alessandro 1.anari, Corticelli and Antonio Puglioli administered '··-··' ---) the theater.9 During the years following Corticelli tried to commission original operas from Verdi for the ~ ' same theater on at least two occasions. The respons­ '-· T' ' es were friendly and of more than passing interest; but J- ~. ... I '. they were negative. While directing the successful \ \ first performances of Trovatore , Verdi wrote from I --~ .... '- Rome on 22 January 1853: - ••-I - ....._ .,... .. ~ .. What can I say about your request. At the moment I can't undertake any task. A commis­ sion frightens me. To go on stage at a [specific] \... time, at a fixed day, with elements that are good and not good; that isn't what I would like to do. I would like to write an opera completely at my east and northeast from Rome to the Adriatic sea and south to the bor­ own convenience; then having studied the [differ- der of the Kingdom of Two Sicilies. On the north were the Italian ent] companies, to give it where it would be most suitable. provinces of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Bologna was the principal Here dear Corticelli are my ideas ... 10 city of the northeast regions called Romagna and le Marche. Corticelli remained in the position of Adjunct-Inspector for Less than two years later, while awaiting the return to Paris of the about a year before joining the establishment of Alessandro 1.anari, unpredictable soprano Sophie Cruvelli so that he could mount Les who was called the Napoleon of 19th century Italian theater impresar­ Vepres siciliennes, Verdi wrote on 18 November 1854: ios. At the time, the Autumn of 1844, 1.anari held contracts (appalti) for the Teatro Rossini of Llvorno, the Teatro de! Giglio in Lucca, the Teatro della Pergola of Florence, The Teatro Apollo in Rome, and the My very dear Corticelli, Teatro Comunale, the most important theater of Bologna where ... For now it is impossible for me to answer Yes or No to the propos­ Corticelli was employed.6 He labored as a theatrical agent for the next al that I write for Bologna [next] Autumn. Who knows! I can say nothing 15 years; but when embarking on this career, he had apparently been definite because I have some projects; have given some half-promises-then warned off the profession by Giuseppina Strepponi. In a letter she the librettos-then thousands and thousands of [other] things etc. etc. wrote upon hearing that he was joining Ristoris theatrical group, she Finally, let's not speak of it for now and arrange your affairs as if I didn't reminded him of her earlier comments. The letter is dated 15 January exist.. .11 18 Some Biographical Notes on Mauro Corticelli and a Previously Unpublished Lener from Him to Verdi During the seasons of 1855 and 1856 Corticelli, in collaboration with Agostino Marchesi, mounted five operas by Verdi at the Teatro Comunale of . ...... _ ........ Bologna: Trovatore, Violetta (a censored version of ( - . -..... - Traviata) , Luisa Miller, VtSCardello (the most popular of I the many censored versions of Rigoletto) and I due ., ... " .' . 4. Foscari . But the theatrical agency of Marchesi and ,_ 4. l - < Corticelli did poorly thereafter and was dissolved at ... ~- ' 12 the end of the year 1858. -' ~ ... ' ' At this point Corticelli undertook a new and ... .... I J. .. - challenging position, manager for the traveling the­ -· atrical company of Adelaide Ristori; and it was in ~ - · Russia with the Ristori troupe during the winter of ' 1860-61 that Corticelli played a role in the negotia­ .- , ... tions that led to the composition of La forza del desti­ . """ ,... ' no. The first approach to Verdi from the Imperial ...... ~ Theater of St. Petersburg arrived at Sant'Agata ( ' .. enclosed in a letter from Corticelli. ... Giuseppina responded for Verdi in a tentatively ...... ~- "" positive way; on 17 January 1861 she wrote to her friend: i -- , ' .. Verdi will reply direct ... in what terms I don't . - .... know, but from certain words that have escaped '-\ him it seems to me that he is no longer so averse to taking up the pen again ... •u . ' . In March, during the negotiations, she wrote again: .. .. The libretto will be the most serious hurdle ... Verdi is not the man to set just any old - thing to music, and was given a tremendous les­ ..
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