Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Maria_Piave. Francesco Maria Piave (18 May 1810 – 5 March 1876) was an Italian opera librettist who was born in Murano in the lagoon of Venice, during the brief Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. His career spanned over twenty years working with many of the significant composers of his day, including Giovanni Pacini (four librettos), Saverio Mercadante (at least one), Federico Ricci, and even one for Michael Balfe. He is most well known as Giuseppe Verdi's librettist, for whom he was to write 10 librettos, the most well-known being those for Rigoletto and La traviata. But Piave was not only a librettist: he was a journalist and translator in addition to being the resident poet and stage manager at La Fenice in Venice where he first encountered Verdi. Later, Verdi was helpful in securing him the same position at La Scala in Milan. His expertise as a stage manager and his tact as a negotiator served Verdi very well, but the composer bullied him mercilessly for his pains over many years. Like Verdi, Piave was an ardent Italian patriot, and in 1848, during Milan's "Cinque Giornate," when Radetzky's Austrian troops retreated from the city, Verdi wrote to Piave in Venice addressing him as "Citizen Piave." Together, they worked on ten operas between 1844 and 1862, and Piave would have also prepared the libretto for Aida when Verdi accepted the commission for it in 1870, had he not suffered a stroke which left him paralyzed and unable to speak. Verdi helped to support his wife and daughter, proposing that "an album of pieces by famous composers be compiled and sold for Piave's benefit". The composer paid for his funeral when he died nine years later in Milan aged 65 and arranged for his burial at the Monumental Cemetery.
Wrote 98
2020s
- 2026
The Metropolitan Opera: Macbeth
Writer
Simon Boccanegra – Dutch National Opera and Ballet
Writer
- 2025
Attila
Writer
La Traviata
Writer
- 2022
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
Writer
- 2021
La Traviata - Wiener Staatsoper
Writer
Rigoletto
Writer
2010s
- 2019
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Screenplay
Royal Opera House: La Traviata
Writer
Verdi: Macbeth
Writer
- 2018
La Traviata
Writer
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Writer
Opéra National de Paris: Verdi's La Traviata
Writer
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Writer
Verdi: Rigoletto - Teatro Massimo di Palermo
Story
- 2017
Rigoletto
Writer
Ernani
Writer
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Writer
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
Writer
- 2016
La Traviata
Writer
Rigoletto - Opéra National de Paris
Writer
Giuseppe Verdi: I due Foscari
Writer
Macbeth
Writer
- 2015
Verdi: La traviata
Writer
La Traviata
Lyricist
La Traviata
Writer
Verdi's La Traviata - English National Opera
Original Story
Verdi: Rigoletto
Writer
- 2014
The Metropolitan Opera - Verdi: Macbeth
Lyricist
Verdi La Forza del Destino
Writer
- 2013
Teatro alla Scala: La Traviata
Writer
The Metropolitan Opera: Rigoletto
Writer
- 2012
Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata
Writer
San Francisco Opera: Verdi's Rigoletto
Writer
Verdi: Stiffelio
Writer
The Metropolitan Opera: La Traviata
Writer
Verdi: Ernani
Writer
I Due Foscari - Verdi
Writer
- 2011
La traviata
Writer
Simon Boccanegra [The Metropolitan Opera]
Writer
Giuseppe Verdi : La forza del destino
Writer
- 2010
Attila
Writer
Verdi: Attila
Writer
Rigoletto a Mantova
Writer
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra - Teatro alla Scala
Writer
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Writer
2000s
- 2009
Verdi: I due Foscari
Writer
Royal Opera House: La Traviata
Writer
Macbeth: Opéra National de Paris
Writer
- 2008
Verdi: Il corsaro
Writer
Verdi: Rigoletto (Teatro Regio di Parma)
Writer
Rigoletto - Semperoper Dresden
Writer
The Metropolitan Opera – Verdi: Macbeth
Writer
- 2007
Nabucco
Writer
Verdi: La Traviata
Writer
- 2006
Rigoletto
Writer
Macbeth
Writer
La Traviata
Writer
- 2005
La traviata
Writer
Verdi: Ernani
Writer
Verdi La Traviata
Writer
- 2004
Rigoletto
Writer
- 2002
Simon Boccanegra
Writer
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Writer
La Traviata
Writer
- 2001
Rigoletto
Writer
Rigoletto
Writer
La Traviata
Writer
1990s
- 1997
Verdi: La Forza del Destino
Writer
- 1996
La Forza del Destino - The Met
Writer
Rigoletto
Writer
- 1995
Rigoletto
Writer
Giuseppe Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Writer
- 1993
Verdi Stiffelio
Writer
- 1992
Verdi La Traviata
Writer
- 1991
Attila
Writer
1980s
- 1988
The Two Foscari
Writer
- 1987
La Traviata
Writer
Verdi: Macbeth
Writer
Rigoletto
Writer
- 1985
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Writer
- 1984
La Forza del Destino - Metropolitan Opera
Writer
- 1982
La traviata
Screenplay
Verdi: Rigoletto
Writer
- 1981
Verdi: Rigoletto
Writer
La Traviata - The Met
Writer
1970s
- 1979
Macbeth
Writer
- 1978
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra
Writer
- 1977
Rigoletto
Writer
- 1976
La Traviata
Writer
- 1972
Who's Afraid of Opera?
Story
1960s
- 1967
La traviata
Writer
1950s
- 1955
Rigoletto
Opera
1940s
- 1947
The Lost One
Original Story
1910s
- 1918
Álarcosbál
Story
Other crew 2
2010s
- 2019
Royal Opera House: La Forza del Destino
Script
- 2017
The ROH Live: Rigoletto
Script
Sound 1
1930s
- 1935
Broadway Gondolier
Music