provenza

Updated: May 7, 2025

Verdi's mastery of dramatic accent of the modern school of declamation is here evident. Some dramatic work, the orchestra leading, follows bringing an air by Germont, "Di Provenza il mar." A good hit is the sudden exit of Alfred thereupon, not stopping to make an andiamo duet as is so often done.

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music

But musical critics enjoy a wide latitude of observation. In all likelihood there was nothing more in Dr. Basevi's mind than the strophic structure of "Di Provenza," the song style of some of the other arias to which attention has been called and the circumstance that these, the most striking numbers in the score, mark the points of deepest feeling.

Henry Edward Krehbiel - A Book of Operas : Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music