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La traviata

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Original – Title page of a c. 1855 vocal score of Giuseppe Verdi's La traviata, with illustration by Leopoldo Ratti

Reason: The last of this particular type of image for now - Rigoletto will probably reappear in a couple weeks after being one short of quorum during a lull in activity, and there's a couple more monochrome opera images in the queue - but they're fairly different than the ones we've been seeing (for instance, one shows named performers in a lithograph). Anyway, this is another very early edition of Verdi's operas, with a pretty decent image with high EV (it appears Verdi took an interest in how his scores were illustrated) that fills a gap in the opera's page very well - only illustration of Act III. Not that I have a source saying it's Act III, but, seriously, it's Act III, the one - and the only one - that takes place in a bedroom, and has a scene with three characters who.. well, do that scene. By the way, this was annoyingly difficult to fix up - had some very obtrusive bright yellow markings on it that took ages to get rid of, as they intersected text and such. There's one bit I didn't restore - the Fr. on the middle right. This is because, looking at other images from early Ricordi editions, that Fr. should be followed by a number, and I found two Ricordi Traviata scores, and each had a different number there. That's a sign that you should leave it be, with the evidence of damage. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:31, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Articles in which this image appears: La traviata
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Theatre
Creator: Leopoldo Ratti, restored by Adam Cuerden

Support as nominator – Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 12:10, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Good work — Chris Woodrich (talk) 13:09, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support Maybe time for some Robinson Crusoe illustrations or the like, Adam... Brandmeister^talk 16:26, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- @Brandmeister: Heh. Aye, I've been doing a lot of opera, but, as I said a while back, we recently lost a major operatic contributor. I would like to honour his memory rather fully. But I'll switch it up a bit for a moment. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:00, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - DreamSparrow ^talk 16:48, 20 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Excellent restoration with very good EV - these restorations are lovely, Adam. SagaciousPhil - Chat 16:55, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support like Violetta supports Alfredo. (Incidentally, it's nice to have a Traviata scene in the eighteenth-century costume; one doesn't see too much of that, though I seem to recall once seeing a portrait of Alessandro Bonci as an eighteenth-century Alfredo.) --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 14:17, 23 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
- @Ser Amantio di Nicolao: Agreed. I kind of hate when things like modernization - even when they work well - become the only option that anyone takes, throwing out the traditional approach. Especially when the production doesn't manage to work in the modernized elements to fit the lyrics. La boheme suffers from this very badly, particularly when the modernization isn't thought through very well, just done because everyone's doing it. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 15:47, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
  - @Adam Cuerden: I'm a traditionalist when it comes to my opera productions, but I tend to agree; I find too many directors are unwilling to look beyond the surface when directing much of anything. And I loathe modernization for the sake of modernization; rarely have I seen an updating that worked well. Twice, perhaps, in all my years of opera-going...and one of those was a televised production. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 15:55, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Cote d'Azur (talk) 14:23, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Excellent restoration & very good EV talk→ WPPilot 22:48, 29 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Support - Jobas (talk) 01:34, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Giuseppe Verdi, La traviata title page - Restoration.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 12:11, 30 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]