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Author | : Burton D. Fisher |
Publisher | : Opera Journeys Publishing |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 097714559X |
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A comprehensive guide to Puccini's GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, a complete, newly translated Libretto with Italian/English side-by side, and over 20 music highlight examples.
Author | : Annie Janeiro Randall |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0226703894 |
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Set in the American West during the California Gold Rush, La fanciulla del West marked a significant departure from Giacomo Puccini's previous and best- known works. Puccini and the Girl is the first book to explore this important but often misunderstood opera that became the earliest work by a major European composer to receive an American premiere when it opened at New York's Metropolitan Opera House in 1910. Adapted from American playwright David Belasco's Broadway production, The Girl of the Golden West, Fanciulla was Puccini's most consciously modern work, and its Met debut received mixed reviews. Annie J. Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis base their account of its creation on previously unknown letters from Puccini to his main librettist, Carlo Zangarini. They mine musical materials, newspaper accounts, and rare photographs and illustrations to tell the full story of this controversial opera. Puccini and the Girl considers the production and reception of Puccini's "cowboy" opera in the light of contemporary criticism, providing both fascinating insight into its history and a look to the future as its centenary approaches. “Engrossing. . . . An eminently readable, ideally direct and information-packed book.”—William Fregosi, Opera Today
Author | : Kathryn M. Fenton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-08-30 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351594877 |
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On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini’s seventh opera, La fanciulla del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. The performance was the Metropolitan Opera Company’s first world premiere by any composer. By all accounts, the premiere was an unambiguous success and the event itself recognized as a major moment in New York cultural history. The initial public opinion matched Puccini’s own evaluation of his opera. He called it "the best he had ever written" and expected it to become as popular as La Bohème. Yet the music reviews tell a different story. Marked by ambivalence, the reviews expose the New York City critics’ struggle to reconcile the opera they expected to see with the one they actually saw, and the opera itself became embroiled in controversy over the essence of musical Americanness and the nativist perception that a uniquely American national opera tradition continued to elude both American- and foreign-born opera composers. This book seeks to account for the differences between Puccini’s own assessments of the opera and those of its first audience. Offering transcriptions of the central reviews and of letters unavailable elsewhere, the book provides a historically informed understanding of La fanciulla del West and the reception of this European work as it intersected with both opera production and consumption in the United States and with the process of American musical identity formation during the very period that Americans actively sought to eradicate European cultural influences. As such, it offers a window into the development of nativism and "cosmopolitan nationalism" in New York City’s musical life during the first decade of the twentieth century.
Author | : David Belasco |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2020-09-02 |
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The Girl of the Golden West is a theatrical play written, produced and directed by David Belasco, set in the California Gold Rush. The four-act melodrama opened at the old Belasco Theatre in New York on November 14, 1905 and ran for 224 performances. Blanche Bates originated the role of The Girl, Robert C. Hilliard played Dick Johnson, and Frank Keenan played Jack Rance. Bates was joined by Charles Millward and Cuyler Hastings for two-week Broadway runs in 1907 and 1908.[1] William Furst composed the play's incidental music. The play toured throughout the US for several years.
Author | : Giacomo Puccini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Operas |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Burton D. Fisher |
Publisher | : Opera Journeys Publishing |
Total Pages | : 25 |
Release | : 2002-06 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0967397308 |
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A newly translated Libretto featuring foreign language/English side-by-side, and music examples interspersed throughout the text.
Author | : Ernest Markham Lee |
Publisher | : [London] : A. Moring |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1911 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Burton D. Fisher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1930841663 |
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Annotation A complete, newly translated LIBRETTO of Puccini's LA FANCIULLA DEL WEST (The Girl of the Golden West) featuring Music Highlight Examples and Italian/English translation side-by-side.
Author | : Giacomo Puccini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1910 |
Genre | : Operas |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Julian Budden |
Publisher | : Master Musicians |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0195179749 |
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Julian Budden provides a look at the process of putting an opera together, the cut-and-slash of nineteenth-century Italian opera, -the struggle to find the right performers for the debut of La Boheme, Puccini's anxiety about completing Turandot (he in fact died of cancer before he did so), and his animosity toward his rival Leoncavallo (whom he called Leonasino or "lion-ass"). Budden provides an analysis of the operas themselves, examining the music act by act. He highlights, among other things, the influence of Wagner on Puccini--alone among his Italian contemporaries, Puccini followed Wagner's example in bringing the motif into the forefront of his narrative, sometimes voicing the singer's unexpressed thoughts, sometimes sending out a signal to the audience of which the character is unaware. And Budden also paints a portrait of Puccini the man--talented but modest, a man who had friends from every walk of life: shopkeepers, priests, wealthy landowners, fellow artists. --From publisher's description.