The Verismo of Giacomo Puccini
Author | : Richard Valente |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Verismo (Opera) |
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Author | : Richard Valente |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Verismo (Opera) |
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Author | : Arman Schwartz |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0691172862 |
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccini’s operas from Manon Lescaut (1893) to Turandot (1926), this volume aims to move beyond clichés of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to resituate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity. This collection’s essays explore Puccini’s engagement with spoken theater and operetta, and with new technologies like photography and cinema. Other essays consider the philosophical problems raised by "realist" opera, discuss the composer’s place in a variety of cosmopolitan formations, and reevaluate Puccini’s orientalism and his complex interactions with the Italian fascist state. A rich array of primary source material, including previously unpublished letters and documents, provides vital information on Puccini’s interactions with singers, conductors, and stage directors, and on the early reception of the verismo movement. Excerpts from Fausto Torrefranca’s notorious Giacomo Puccini and International Opera, perhaps the most vicious diatribe ever directed against the composer, appear here in English for the first time. The contributors are Micaela Baranello, Leon Botstein, Alessandra Campana, Delia Casadei, Ben Earle, Elaine Fitz Gibbon, Walter Frisch, Michele Girardi, Arthur Groos, Steven Huebner, Ellen Lockhart, Christopher Morris, Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici, and Alexandra Wilson.
Author | : Richard Valente |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Verismo (Opera) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mosco Carner |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1985-09-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780521296618 |
A guide for opera goers to Tosca, which includes a synopsis of the plot and discussions on style.
Author | : Linda B. Fairtile |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2013-10-08 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1135592349 |
Scholarly recognition of Giacomo Puccini's achievements as a musical dramatist has been growing steadily for more than 75 years. This useful volume surveys and evaluates close to 700 books and articles about the composer, written in English, Italian, German, French and Spanish. Additional features include an essay on the evolution of Puccini studies, an annotated discography/videography, a guide to manuscript materials, and a list of organizations devoted to Puccini. This useful volume surveys and evaluates close to 700 books and articles about the composer, written in English, Italian, German, French and Spanish. Additional features include an essay on the evolution of Puccini studies, an annotated discography/videography, a guide to manuscript materials, and a list of organizations devoted to Puccini.
Author | : Ray S. Macdonald |
Publisher | : New York : Vantage Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Verismo (Opera) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wakeling Dry |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Berger |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0307542904 |
Puccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades movie soundtracks, and his plots have infiltrated our popular culture. But, although Puccini’s art still captivates audiences and the popularity of such works as Tosca, La Bohéme, and Madama Butterfly has never waned, he has long been a victim of critical snobbery and cultural marginalization. In this witty and informative guide for beginners and fans alike, William Berger sets the record straight, reclaiming Puccini as a serious artist. Combining his trademark irreverent humor with passionate enthusiasm, Berger strikes just the right balance of introductory information and thought-provoking analysis. He includes a biography, discussions of each opera, a glossary, fun facts and anecdotes, and above all keen insight into Puccini’s enduring power. For anyone who loves Puccini and for anyone who just wonders what all the fuss is about, Puccini Without Excuses is funny, challenging, and always a pleasure to read. INCLUDES: • Why Puccini’s art and its message of hope is crucial to our world today • How Anglo audiences often miss the mythic significance of his operas • The use of his music as shorthand in films, from A Room with a View to Fatal Attraction • A scene-by scene analysis of each opera • A guide to the wealth of available recordings, books, and videos
Author | : William Ashbrook |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2014-12-25 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1400866677 |
Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera. Here they provide concrete instances of how a listener might encounter the dramatic and musical structures of Turandot in light of the Italian melodramma, and firmly establish Puccini's last work within the tradition of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi. In a summary of the sounds, sights, and symbolism of Turandot, the authors touch on earlier treatments of the subject, outline the conception, birth, and reception of the work, and analyze its coordinated dramatic and musical design. Showing how the evolution of the libretto documents Puccini's reversion to large musical forms typical of the Great Tradition in the late nineteenth century, they give particular attention to his use of contrasting Romantic, modernist, and two kinds of orientalist coloration in the general musical structure. They suggest that Puccini's inability to complete the opera resulted mainly from inadequate dramatic buildup for Turandot's last-minute change of heart combined with an overly successful treatment of the secondary character.
Author | : Pietro Mascagni |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Operas |
ISBN | : |