Verdi Forum Number 6 Article 2 3-1-1979 Traces Mary Jane Phillips-Matz Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/vf Part of the Musicology Commons Recommended Citation Phillips-Matz, Mary Jane (1979) "Traces," Verdi Newsletter: No. 6, Article 2. 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]. Traces Keywords Giuseppina Strepponi Verdi, Giuseppe Verdi, biography This article is available in Verdi Forum: http://scholarship.richmond.edu/vf/vol1/iss6/2 Traces by Mary Jane Phillips Matz In the issue of Opera News dated.27 January Needing someone in Milan to give him 1979, two phrases in an article about Giusep the support and counsel which he regularly pina Strepponi refer to her as 'once the mis was fed by his partisans in Busseto, Verdi tress of one of the Bonapartes' and to her son became friendly with Donna Giuseppina Ap Camillo as having died 'while training to be piani and Donna Emilia Zeltner Morosini; come a doctor'. Behind those two throw but these women did not actually work in the away lines lie nearly sixteen years of re theatre, while Strepponi did. Thus she be search in several dozen archives. came essential to Verdi, and so vocal in her The first reference is to Princess Elisa advocacy of him that by early March 1842, Bonaparte's son-in-law, Count Filippo Cam when Nabucco got onstage, Donizetti was erata dei Passionei, whose support of opera driven by jealousy or anger to refer to the in Senigallia and Ancona gave the impresario composer as 'her Verdi'.