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A comprehensive guide to Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY, 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 : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 11,20 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 097713203X
A comprehensive guide to Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY, 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 : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,44 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781942317722
A comprehensive new OPERA STUDY GUIDE of Puccini¿s MADAMA BUTTERFLY Opera Study Guide with Libretto, featuring Principal Characters in the Opera; Brief Story Synopsis; Story Narrative with Music Highlight Examples; Burton D. Fisher's in depth and insightful Commentary and Analysis; and a new LIBRETTO with Italian and English translation in parallel (side-by-side).
Author : Mosco Carner
Publisher : Silver Burdett Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 14,57 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780382063138
Author : David Henry Hwang
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 38,20 MB
Release : 1993-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1101077034
David Henry Hwang’s beautiful, heartrending play featuring an afterword by the author – winner of a 1988 Tony Award for Best Play and nominated for the 1989 Pulitzer Prize Based on a true story that stunned the world, M. Butterfly opens in the cramped prison cell where diplomat Rene Gallimard is being held captive by the French government—and by his own illusions. In the darkness of his cell he recalls a time when desire seemed to give him wings. A time when Song Liling, the beautiful Chinese diva, touched him with a love as vivid, as seductive—and as elusive—as a butterfly. How could he have known, then, that his ideal woman was, in fact, a spy for the Chinese government—and a man disguised as a woman? In a series of flashbacks, the diplomat relives the twenty-year affair from the temptation to the seduction, from its consummation to the scandal that ultimately consumed them both. But in the end, there remains only one truth: Whether or not Gallimard's passion was a flight of fancy, it sparked the most vigorous emotions of his life. Only in real life could love become so unreal. And only in such a dramatic tour de force do we learn how a fantasy can become a man's mistress—as well as his jailer. M. Butterfly is one of the most compelling, explosive, and slyly humorous dramas ever to light the Broadway stage, a work of unrivaled brilliance, illuminating the conflict between men and women, the differences between East and West, racial stereotypes—and the shadows we cast around our most cherished illusions. M. Butterfly remains one of the most influential romantic plays of contemporary literature, and in 1993 was made into a film by David Cronenberg starring Jeremy Irons and John Lone.
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 32,72 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,64 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Opera
ISBN :
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 11,28 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780585427171
A newly translated Libretto featuring foreign language/English side-by-side, and music examples interspersed throughout the text.
Author : Elguera Elguera
Publisher :
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 24,74 MB
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Graphic novels
ISBN : 9781450724142
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486246078
Next to Verdi's Ada, Giacomo Puccini's La Bohme is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of Ada, La Bohme, Carmen, and Don Giovanni ? the four operas most often performed ? constitute approximately 75 percent of the yearly schedule of operas throughout the world. This volume contains everything the opera goer needs to derive full satisfaction from La Bohme except the musical score itself. Most important, it provides the complete text of the Italian libretto, just as it is actually sung; that is, where a singer repeats a phrase several times, each of the repetitions is given here. And facing the Italian text is a completely new translation of the libretto into modern, idiomatic English. In addition to the libretto and English translation, this edition provides a careful, concise summary of the plot of La Bohme and a complete list of the opera's characters. There is also a brief, highly informative introduction by the translator that traces Puccini's masterpiece back to its source in Henry Murger's autobiographical novel La Vie Bohme, illuminating the early history of the opera and its later development. Opera lovers can use this book with their own recordings of the opera, read it before attending a performance, or can easily take it along to the performance itself. Those who have regretted the lack of a good, authentic, readable edition of the Italian libretto of La Bohme, and have complained of the stodginess of existing English translations, will recognize in this book a first-rate aid to the understanding of one of Puccini's most celebrated operas.
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,30 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Operas
ISBN : 9781933327082
Giacome Puccini's tragic grand opera-one act playbased on Long's story.