From Novel To Opera

Verdi is a master of Italian opera, and also he is the greatest opera composers in19th century in Italy. Many of his opera works is adapted from novel or drama, and allof them can achieve great success. The opera of La traviata which Adapted fromAlexandre Dumas, fils’ novel La dame aux Camélias has an important place in thehistory of opera, and it is the most revolutionary work in the history of opera, then,until today, it has been considered as the art treasures to the music lovers in the world.In the adaptation and creation process, based on the characteristics of music thatis good at lyrical but short of narrative, the opera of La traviata made some creativetrade-offs to the content of novel, and underlined the characters’ psychologicaldescriptive and the demonstration of the conflict, and meanwhile, abandoned somecharacters and plot that the opera can’t accommodate, then, it is finally realized theperfect combination of literariness and musicality. It used the rhythmic musiclanguage, and applied the conflict aria, conflict recitative and contrast quartet thatperformance the dramatic conflicts to portray the vividly opera image, andtransformed the characters and sincere emotion in the specific situation to pure music,thus decorated the characters with the music wings, by which the characters cangallop in the music myth, and then win the vitality beyond time and space. Verdi dareto break through the secular prejudice, took a prostitute and molded her into beingflesh, a good, lofty person who persistent pursuits sincere love, and dare to sacrificeher life for the love. The appearance of Violetta, has broken the tragedy’ s traditionthat always sing praises to heroes and the nobility; Her death, is not only a way tocharge against the corrupt and dark society, but also a process of self-salvation andsoul sublimation.