Puccini's la Rondine
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1102020737
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1102020737
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 14,92 MB
Release : 2004-01-30
Category : Operas
ISBN : 1102009288
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,58 MB
Release : 1927
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author : Julian Budden
Publisher :
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 48,79 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195179749
Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera, here offers music lovers a major biography of Giacomo Puccini--a volume in the esteemed Master Musicians series. Blending astute musical analysis with a colorful account of Puccini's life, Budden providess an illuminating look at some of the most popular operas in the repertoire, including Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. Budden also paints an intriguing portrait of Puccini the man--talented but modest, a man who had friends from every walk of life: shopkeepers, priests, wealthy landowners, fellow artists.
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 38,16 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Operas
ISBN :
Author : Michele Girardi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226297576
Puccini's operas are among the most popular and widely performed in the world, yet few books have examined his body of work from an analytical perspective. This volume remedies that lack in lively prose accessible to scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.
Author : Arman Schwartz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 33,26 MB
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : 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 : Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555535308
This masterful biography provides the most authentic and revealing portrait to date of this major operatic composer
Author : William Ashbrook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,81 MB
Release : 2014-12-25
Category : 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 : Linda B. Fairtile
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,32 MB
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : 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.