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Author: Giacomo Puccini Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486246078 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
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: Deborah Burton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Opera Languages : en Pages : 356
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Who is Puccini? Most debates about the composer are focused on his cultural and musical identity: is his music traditional or progressive? The thesis of this volume is that the diametrically opposed forces of the traditional and the progressive live together in Puccini's music, embedded deeply within his harmonic constructs and in many musical parameters. Recondite Harmony is a study of all of Puccini's operas examined through a primarily analytic lens. It offers essays on salient aspects of each of the operas while tracing in them both progressive and traditional elements. The volume is divided into two parts: in the first, approaches that inform the entire corpus of Puccini's operas are examined. The second half of the book is devoted to brief essays discussing interesting aspects of each of his operas. Techniques in each opus that merit analytic attention are highlighted and discussed in relation to the drama at hand, individuating more fully musical aspects special to each score. Included are also previously unpublished source material and autograph sketches.
Author: William Berger Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307542904 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 482
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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: Donald Pippin Publisher: ISBN: 9780979776229 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 257
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Drama. Music. Translated from the Italian by the editor. This is the second of a six volume series of translations of libretti by Donald Pippin who is the founder and director of the San Francisco Pocket Opera. The libretti in this volume include Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, Tosca, La Rondine, Manon Lescaut. Also available from SPD from is OPERA IN ENGLISH: VOLUME ONE, MOZART.
Author: Giacomo Puccini Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486246078 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 98
Book Description
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: Julian Budden Publisher: Master Musicians ISBN: 0195179749 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 538
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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.
Author: Donald Pippin Publisher: ISBN: 9780979776236 Category : Operas Languages : en Pages : 0
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Drama. Music. Translated from the Italian by the editor. This is the first of a six volume series of translations of libretti by Donald Pippin. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Donald Pippin, the founder, director and one-man band behind Pocket Opera, has been delighting Bay Area audiences for 25 years with his lithe, elegant versions of the operatic repertoire." The libretti included in this volume are Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute, The Abduction from the Seraglio (or Yanked from the Harem) and The Marriage of Figaro. Joshua Kosman, music critic for the Chronicle comments in his introduction to the book, that these libretti are "an eminently practical resource for impresarios and opera companies everywhere...An eloquent argument in support of the art of opera in translation... Read. Marvel. Enjoy." Also available from SPD from is OPERA IN ENGLISH: VOLUME TWO, PUCCINI.
Author: Donald Pippin Publisher: ISBN: 9780979776243 Category : Operas Languages : en Pages : 0
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Drama. Music. Translated from the French by the editor. This is the third of a six volume series of translations of libretti by Donald Pippin. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, "Donald Pippin, the founder, director and one-man band behind Pocket Opera, has been delighting Bay Area audiences for 25 years with his lithe, elegant versions of the operatic repertoire." The libretti included in this volume are Offenbach's "Orpheus in the Underworld, "La Via Parisienne," "The Bandits," "La Pericole," "The Cat That Become a Woman." Joshua Kosman, music critic for the Chronicle comments in his introduction to the book, that these libretti are "an eminently practical resource for impresarios and opera companies everywhere...An eloquent argument in support of the art of opera in translation... Read. Marvel. Enjoy." Also available from SPD are OPERA IN ENGLISH, VOLUME ONE: MOZART, VOLUME TWO: PUCCINI, and VOLUME FOUR: DONIZETTI.
Author: Giacomo Puccini
Author: Deborah Burton
Author: Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Author: William Berger
Author: Donald Pippin
Author: Giacomo Puccini
Author: Giacomo Puccini
Author: Julian Budden
Author: Donald Pippin
Author: Giacomo Puccini
Author: Donald Pippin