Author: Giacomo Puccini
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Category : Operas
Languages : it
Pages : 72

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Author: Giacomo Puccini
Publisher: Ricordi
ISBN: 9780634053030
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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(Opera). Casa Ricordi is the original publisher for the unforgettable Italian operas that have made their mark on musical history and now hold a special place in the hearts of millions of music lovers. Now, for the first time, Ricordi makes their full orchestral scores available to us with covers featuring beautiful color reproductions of authentic Ricordi artwork from opera posters, set designs and postcards from the turn of the century. Each edition features lyrics in the original language, and includes a synopsis of each act in English, Italian, German and French.

Author: Burton D. Fisher
Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN: 1930841671
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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A newly translated Libretto featuring foreign language/English side-by-side, and music examples interspersed throughout the text.

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Publisher: Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN: 1930841094
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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Author: Giacomo Puccini
Publisher:
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Languages : en
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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: Arman Schwartz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691172862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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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: Giacomo Puccini
Publisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 76

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Author: Samuel Holland Rous
Publisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 450

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Author: Michele Girardi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226297576
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 558

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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.