Madama Butterfly
Author | : Giacomo Puccini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Operas |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Giacomo Puccini |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Operas |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Arthur Groos |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2023-01-31 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1009250701 |
Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage' between Western men and Japanese women in nineteenth-century treaty ports. Groos' book identifies the plot's origin in an eye-witness account and traces its transmission via John Luther Long's short story and David Belasco's play. Archival sources, many unpublished, reveal how Puccini and his librettists imbued the opera with differing constructions of the action and its heroine. Groos's analysis suggests how they constructed a 'contemporary' music-drama with multiple possibilities for interpreting the misalliance between a callous American naval officer and an impoverished fifteen-year-old geisha, providing a more complex understanding of the heroine's presumed 'marriage'. As an orientalizing tragedy with a racially inflected representation of Cio-Cio-San, the opera became a lightning rod for identity politics in Japan, while also stimulating decolonizing transpositions into indigenous theatre traditions such as Bunraku puppet theatre and Takarazuka musicals.
Author | : Giacomo Puccini |
Publisher | : Alma Books |
Total Pages | : 131 |
Release | : 2018-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 071454504X |
Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular operas of all time, despite its disastrous premiere, after which it was immediately withdrawn and revised. This guide explores how and why the libretto was softened to suit the tastes of European opera-goers, and the different variants are set out, side by side. Professor Jean-Pierre Lehmann introduces the story and shows how the theme of a Japanese girl deserted by a heartless foreigner became a classic. Since John Luther Long's novella - on which the opera was based - is included as well, it is possible to judge how successful Puccini was in catching its essence in his hauntingly beautiful score.Contents: Images of the Orient, John-Pierre Lehmann; Tribulations of a Score, Julian Smith; Madame Butterfly, John Luther Long; Madama Butterfly: Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi lllica after the book by John Luther Long and the play by David Belasco; Madam Butterfly: English version based on that of R.H. Elkin
Author | : J. L. Wisenthal |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0802088015 |
Best known as the story from the 1904 Puccini opera, the compelling modern myth of Madame Butterfly has been read, watched, and re-interpreted for many years. This volume examines the Madame Butterfly narrative in a variety of cultural contexts - literary, musical, theatrical, cinematic, historical, and political.
Author | : Arthur Groos |
Publisher | : Olschki |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Ashbrook |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780801493096 |
The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life.
Author | : Gerald Fitzgerald |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 1343 |
Release | : 2016-06-11 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1349119768 |
Author | : Paul Barker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2014-02-04 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1136723374 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Steven H. Goldberg |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2022-06-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1000591557 |
In this widely ranging collection of essays, a group of contemporary psychoanalyst/authors turn their finely-honed listening skills and clinical experience to plumb the depths and illuminate themes of character, drama, myth, culture, and psychobiography in some of the world’s most beloved operas. The richly diverse chapters are unified by a psychoanalytic approach to the nuances of unconscious mental life and emotional experience as they unfold synergistically in opera’s music, words, and drama. Opera creates a unique bridge between thought and feeling, mind and body, and conscious and unconscious that offers fertile ground for psychological exploration of profound human truths. Each piece is written in a colorful and non-technical manner that will appeal to mental health professionals, musicians, academics, and general readers wishing to better understand and appreciate opera as an art form.
Author | : Phyllis Frus |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2010-03-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786455780 |
Some film and novel revisions go so far beyond adaptation that they demand a new designation. This critical collection explores movies, plays, essays, comics and video games that supersede adaptation to radically transform their original sources. Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their sources and contexts. Particular attention is paid to parody, intertextuality, and fairy-tale transformations in the examination of these works, which occupy a unique narrative and creative space.