Fra le quinte with Aida: Teresa Stolz writes to Giuseppe Verdi
Caroline Anne Ellsmore (Melbourne)
Primary Sources:
I have translated the quoted passages from items in the Gazzetta musicale di Milano
(found at www.ripm.org: Retrospective-index-to-music-periodicals) and from Teresa
Stolz’s letters (found in the Verdi Archives at the Istituto Nazionale di Studi Verdiani
(INSV), Parma, and at the American Institute for Verdi Studies (AIVS), Elmer Holmes Bobst
Library, New York University.
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