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Author : Victorien Sardou
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781375769242
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (692 download)
Download or read book La Tosca written by Victorien Sardou and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mosco Carner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296618
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (966 download)
Download or read book Giacomo Puccini: Tosca written by Mosco Carner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985-09-05 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for opera goers to Tosca, which includes a synopsis of the plot and discussions on style.
Author : Victorien Sardou
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book La Tosca written by Victorien Sardou and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of La Tosca, the play that inspired the Puccini opera, complete with annotations and critical comments. This work seeks to give a well-rounded picture of Sardou as a playwright who imbued his pieces with a wealth of historical knowledge.
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher : G Schirmer, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780793526079
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Tosca Liberetto written by Giacomo Puccini and published by G Schirmer, Incorporated. This book was released on 1986-11 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Opera). Italian/English. Translated by Giacosa/Illica.
Author : Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226579726
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (797 download)
Download or read book Tosca's Rome written by Susan Vandiver Nicassio and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it is based. By far the most "historical" opera in the active repertoire, Tosca is set in a very specific time and place: Rome, from June 17 to 18, 1800. But as Nicassio demonstrates, history in Tosca is distorted by nationalism and by the vehement anticlerical perceptions of papal Rome shared by Sardou, Puccini, and the librettists. To provide the historical background necessary for understanding Tosca, Nicassio takes a detailed look at Rome in 1800 as each of Tosca's main characters would have seen it—the painter Cavaradossi, the singer Tosca, and the policeman Scarpia. Finally, she provides a scene-by-scene musical and dramatic analysis of the opera. "[Nicassio] must be the only living historian who can boast that she once sang the role of Tosca. Her deep knowledge of Puccini's score is only to be expected, but her understanding of daily and political life in Rome at the close of the 18th century is an unanticipated pleasure. She has steeped herself in the period and its prevailing culture-literary, artistic, and musical-and has come up with an unusual, and unusually entertaining, history."—Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph "In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio . . . orchestrates a wealth of detail without losing view of the opera and its pleasures. . . . Nicassio aims for opera fans and for historians: she may well enthrall both."—Publishers Weekly "This is the book that ranks highest in my estimation as the most in-depth, and yet highly entertaining, journey into the story of the making of Tosca."—Catherine Malfitano "Nicassio's prose . . . is lively and approachable. There is plenty here to intrigue everyone-seasoned opera lovers, musical novices, history buffs, and Italophiles."—Library Journal
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tosca written by Giacomo Puccini and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0977132048
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (771 download)
Download or read book Puccini's Tosca written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Puccini's TOSCA, 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 : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714545376
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Tosca written by Giacomo Puccini and published by Alma Books. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Opera Guides are ideal companions to the opera. They provide stimulating introductory articles together with the complete text of each opera in English and the original.'Puccini's motto could be: "e;The maximum effect with the simplest means"e;,' suggests Bernard Keeffe. He analyses different aspects of the score, noting particularly Puccini's genius for orchestration, and the infinitely subtle effects that give the melodrama irresistible vitality. Stuart Woolfe's scholarly assessment of the significance of the historical themes for Puccini explains many of the motives of the protagonists. Tosca is a supreme example of music's power to enthral an audience and Bernard Williams discusses the particular quality of its appeal.
Author : Michael Steen
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848314582
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (483 download)
Download or read book Puccini's Tosca written by Michael Steen and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tosca's première in Rome in January 1900 was nearly disrupted by a terrorist threat to blow up Italy's King Umberto. Victorien Sardou had written the melodrama for the great actress Sarah Bernhardt. Giacomo Puccini's popular opera is a tale of sadism and brutality, torture, attempted rape, murder, an execution and two suicides. 'Realism' was in vogue: Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana had been a great success, as had Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. With sharp practice, the publisher Giulio Ricordi obtained 'Tosca' for Puccini, who had already composed Manon Lescaut and La Bohème. The story, set in the Napoleonic, era was ideal for Puccini, a chain-smoker who enjoyed women, shooting birds, and high-speed motor cars. A political prisoner seeks sanctuary in the church where prima donna Floria Tosca's lover Cavaradossi, a role associated with Pavarotti, is painting a picture of Mary Magdalen. In Va, Tosca! the police chief Scarpia fantasises about Tosca during a Te Deum celebrating Napoleon's victory. Tosca stabs Scarpia following the famous operatic aria, Vissi d'arte, immortalised by Maria Callas on stage and in the film produced by Franco Zeffirelli. Awaiting death before dawn in the Castel Sant'Angelo, Cavaradossi sings the well-known arias E lucevan le stelle and O dolci mani. Tosca's attempt to save him comes to nothing. Written by Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, 'Short Guides to Great Operas' are concise, entertaining and easy to read. They are packed with useful information and informed opinion, helping to make you a truly knowledgeable opera-goer, and so maximising your enjoyment of a great musical experience. Other 'Short Guides to Great Operas' that you may enjoy include La bohème, Madama Butterfly and Carmen.
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Author : Mosco Carner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Giacomo Puccini: Tosca. [Mit Abb. U. Noten.] (1. Publ.) written by Mosco Carner and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Luigi Illica
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781574674439
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Giacomo Puccini's Tosca written by Luigi Illica and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). An idealistic artist, a celebrated opera singer, and a corrupt police chief engage in a fierce battle of wills in this tempestuous tale of passion, intrigue, cruelty, and deception. Puccini's great melodrama may be set in 1800, amid the Napoleonic wars, but the conflicts between love and loyalty, the state and the individual, and hypocrisy and principle are anything but dated. Floria Tosca, the beautiful, glamorous singer who has all Rome at her feet, is one of the iconic soprano roles in the Italian repertoire. She's caught between two men-her lover, the handsome painter Cavaradossi, who defies the law to hide a rebel friend; and the villainous Baron Scarpia, Rome's all-powerful chief of police, who will stop at nothing to crush the rebels and conquer Tosca for himself. This gripping story of torture, attempted rape, murder, suicide, and general mayhem is as thrilling and dramatic as anything seen on the operatic stage.
Author : Julian Budden
Publisher : Master Musicians
ISBN 13 : 0195179749
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Puccini written by Julian Budden and published by Master Musicians. This book was released on 2005 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Luigi Illica
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1574674501
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (746 download)
Download or read book The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca written by Luigi Illica and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). An idealistic artist, a celebrated opera singer, and a corrupt police chief engage in a fierce battle of wills in this tempestuous tale of passion, intrigue, cruelty, and deception. Puccini's great melodrama may be set in 1800, amid the Napoleonic wars, but the conflicts between love and loyalty, the state and the individual, and hypocrisy and principle are anything but dated. Floria Tosca, the beautiful, glamorous singer who has all of Rome at her feet, is one of the iconic soprano roles in the Italian repertoire. She's caught between two men: her lover, the handsome painter Cavaradossi, who defies the law to hide a rebel friend; and the villainous Baron Scarpia, Rome's all-powerful chief of police, who will stop at nothing to crush the rebels and conquer Tosca for himself. This gripping story of torture, attempted rape, murder, suicide, and general mayhem is as thrilling and dramatic as anything seen on the operatic stage.
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781579127602
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Tosca written by Giacomo Puccini and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2007 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and Italian and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in Italian.
Author : Christopher Kerr
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525542841
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Death Is But a Dream written by Christopher Kerr and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to validate the meaningful dreams and visions that bring comfort as death nears. Christopher Kerr is a hospice doctor. All of his patients die. Yet he has cared for thousands of patients who, in the face of death, speak of love and grace. Beyond the physical realities of dying are unseen processes that are remarkably life-affirming. These include dreams that are unlike any regular dream. Described as "more real than real," these end-of-life experiences resurrect past relationships, meaningful events and themes of love and forgiveness; they restore life's meaning and mark the transition from distress to comfort and acceptance. Drawing on interviews with over 1,400 patients and more than a decade of quantified data, Dr. Kerr reveals that pre-death dreams and visions are extraordinary occurrences that humanize the dying process. He shares how his patients' stories point to death as not solely about the end of life, but as the final chapter of humanity's transcendence. Kerr's book also illuminates the benefits of these phenomena for the bereaved, who find solace in seeing their loved ones pass with a sense of calm closure. Beautifully written, with astonishing real-life characters and stories, this book is at its heart a celebration of our power to reclaim the dying process as a deeply meaningful one. Death Is But a Dream is an important contribution to our understanding of medicine's and humanity's greatest mystery.
Author : Arman Schwartz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172862
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Giacomo Puccini and His World written by Arman Schwartz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930841957
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Puccini's TOSCA LIBRETTO written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A NEWLY TRANSLATED LIBRETTO for Puccini's TOSCA, featuring Music Highlight Examples.
