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Giacomo Puccini and his world /

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 variet...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2016.
Colección:Bard Music Festival series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Puccini, his world, and ours / Emanuele Senici
  • part 1. Essays. Realism and skepticism in Puccini's early operas / Arman Schwartz
  • Madama Butterfly between East and West / Arthur Groos
  • Laggiù nel Soledad : indexing and archiving the operatic west / Ellen Lockhart
  • The swallow and the lark : La rondine and Viennese operetta / Micaela Baranello
  • Puccini's things : materials and media in Il trittico / Alessandra Campana and Christopher Morris
  • Puccini, fascism, and the case of Turandot / Ben Earle
  • Music, language, and meaning in opera : Puccini and his contemporaries / Leon Botstein
  • part 2. Documents. Puccini on his interpreters : introduction, translation, and commentary / Emanuele Senici
  • The Verismo debate : introduction, translation, and commentary / Arman Schwartz
  • Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and modern-realistic opera / Hans Merian ; introduction by Walter Frisch, translation and notes by Elaine Fitz Gibbon
  • Albert Carré's staging manual for Madama Butterfly (1906) / introduction by Michele Girardi, translation by Delia Casadei; staging manual translation by Steven Huebner
  • Selections from Fausto Torrefranca's Giacomo Puccini and international opera / introduction by Alexandra Wilson, translation by Delia Casadei.