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Puccini and The Girl

Author : Annie Janeiro Randall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226703894
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Puccini and The Girl written by Annie Janeiro Randall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the American West during the California Gold Rush, La fanciulla del West marked a significant departure from Giacomo Puccini's previous and best- known works. Puccini and the Girl is the first book to explore this important but often misunderstood opera that became the earliest work by a major European composer to receive an American premiere when it opened at New York's Metropolitan Opera House in 1910. Adapted from American playwright David Belasco's Broadway production, The Girl of the Golden West, Fanciulla was Puccini's most consciously modern work, and its Met debut received mixed reviews. Annie J. Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis base their account of its creation on previously unknown letters from Puccini to his main librettist, Carlo Zangarini. They mine musical materials, newspaper accounts, and rare photographs and illustrations to tell the full story of this controversial opera. Puccini and the Girl considers the production and reception of Puccini's "cowboy" opera in the light of contemporary criticism, providing both fascinating insight into its history and a look to the future as its centenary approaches. “Engrossing. . . . An eminently readable, ideally direct and information-packed book.”—William Fregosi, Opera Today

Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 097714559X
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (771 download)

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Download or read book Puccini's The Girl of the Golden West written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Puccini's GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST, 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.

The Girl of the Golden West Illustrated

Author : David Belasco
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book The Girl of the Golden West Illustrated written by David Belasco and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Girl of the Golden West is a theatrical play written, produced and directed by David Belasco, set in the California Gold Rush. The four-act melodrama opened at the old Belasco Theatre in New York on November 14, 1905 and ran for 224 performances. Blanche Bates originated the role of The Girl, Robert C. Hilliard played Dick Johnson, and Frank Keenan played Jack Rance. Bates was joined by Charles Millward and Cuyler Hastings for two-week Broadway runs in 1907 and 1908.[1] William Furst composed the play's incidental music. The play toured throughout the US for several years.

Puccini's the Girl of the Golden West (la Fanciulla Del West)

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1102009318
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Puccini's the Girl of the Golden West (la Fanciulla Del West) written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Puccini

Author : Julian Budden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0195179749
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Puccini written by Julian Budden and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Giacomo Puccini and His World

Author : Arman Schwartz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400884063
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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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 361 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.

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity

Author : Kathryn Fenton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351594877
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity written by Kathryn Fenton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini’s seventh opera, La fanciulla del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. The performance was the Metropolitan Opera Company’s first world premiere by any composer. By all accounts, the premiere was an unambiguous success and the event itself recognized as a major moment in New York cultural history. The initial public opinion matched Puccini’s own evaluation of his opera. He called it "the best he had ever written" and expected it to become as popular as La Bohème. Yet the music reviews tell a different story. Marked by ambivalence, the reviews expose the New York City critics’ struggle to reconcile the opera they expected to see with the one they actually saw, and the opera itself became embroiled in controversy over the essence of musical Americanness and the nativist perception that a uniquely American national opera tradition continued to elude both American- and foreign-born opera composers. This book seeks to account for the differences between Puccini’s own assessments of the opera and those of its first audience. Offering transcriptions of the central reviews and of letters unavailable elsewhere, the book provides a historically informed understanding of La fanciulla del West and the reception of this European work as it intersected with both opera production and consumption in the United States and with the process of American musical identity formation during the very period that Americans actively sought to eradicate European cultural influences. As such, it offers a window into the development of nativism and "cosmopolitan nationalism" in New York City’s musical life during the first decade of the twentieth century.

Opera Classics Library Puccini Companion

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930841620
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Opera Classics Library Puccini Companion written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Puccini's 12 operas, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, Story Narratives with over 120 Music Highlight Examples, and a newly translated Libretto of each opera (exclusing Turandot) with Italian English side-by-side.

Puccini's Il Tabarro

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0976103559
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (761 download)

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Download or read book Puccini's Il Tabarro written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-30 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Puccini

Author : Colin Kendell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445612631
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Puccini written by Colin Kendell and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at Giacomo Puccini through his operas

Puccini's Turandot

Author : William Ashbrook
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400866677
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Puccini's Turandot written by William Ashbrook and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-25 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Romantic World of Puccini

Author : Iris J. Arnesen
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786454342
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Romantic World of Puccini written by Iris J. Arnesen and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2009-10-21 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the world's most popular operas, including La Boheme, Tosca, and Madama Butterfly, was also a highly literary person who based his librettos on existing works of literature. This work explores that literary inheritance in an effort to enhance the listener's appreciation of the operatic experience. The author argues that the majority of Puccini's operas compose a grand cycle that finds its roots in the romance genre of 12th century France, serving to celebrate the strong, independent heroine. Via a close examination of the source works, the librettos, and the scores, this book offers fresh perspective on Puccini's legacy.

Puccini's Turandot

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1102009334
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Puccini's Turandot written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Musical Meaning and Human Values

Author : Keith Moore Chapin
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823230090
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Musical Meaning and Human Values written by Keith Moore Chapin and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musical understanding has evolved dramatically in recent years, principally through a heightened appreciation of musical meaning in its social, cultural, and philosophical dimensions. This collection of essays by leading scholars addresses an aspect of meaning that has not yet received its due: the relation of meaning in this broad humanistic sense to the shaping of fundamental values. The volume examines the open and active circle between the values and valuations placed on music by both individuals and societies, and the discovery, through music, of what and how to value. With a combination of cultural criticism and close readings of musical works, the contributors demonstrate repeatedly that to make music is also to make value, in every sense. They give particular attention to values that have historically enabled music to assume a formative role in human societies: to foster practices of contemplation, fantasy, and irony; to explore sexuality, subjectivity, and the uncanny; and to articulate longings for unity with nature and for moral certainty. Each essay in the collection shows, in its own way, how music may provoke transformative reflection in its listeners and thus help guide humanity to its own essential embodiment in the world. The range of topics is broad and developed with an eye both to the historical specificity of values and to the variety of their possible incarnations. The music is both canonical and noncanonical, old and new. Although all of it is "classical," the contributors' treatment of it yields conclusions that apply well beyond the classical sphere. The composers discussed include Gabrieli, Marenzio, Haydn, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wagner, Puccini, Hindemith, Schreker, and Henze. Anyone interested in music as it is studied today will find this volume essential reading.

Puccini's Girl of the Golden West

Author : Ernest Markham Lee
Publisher : [London] : A. Moring
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puccini's Girl of the Golden West written by Ernest Markham Lee and published by [London] : A. Moring. This book was released on 1911 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Puccini's Operas

Author : Merritt Wilson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796047953
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Puccini's Operas written by Merritt Wilson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera was and still is one of the oldest forms of entertainment. It’s been around longer than any other art form known to mankind, longer than radio, the internet, video games, television and even movies. It’s an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining a script called a libretto and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates music, singing, scenery, costumes and sometimes dancing. Some operas have spoken dialogue called a Singspiel in which the singers talk between songs aka arias. Other operas have a singing style called a Recitative in which the singers imitate spoken dialogue by singing their lines instead of talking.

Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature

Author : Richard Leppert
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520962524
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Aesthetic Technologies of Modernity, Subjectivity, and Nature written by Richard Leppert and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virginia Woolf famously claimed that, around December 1910, human character changed. Aesthetic Technologies addresses how music (especially opera), the phonograph, and film served as cultural agents facilitating the many extraordinary social, artistic, and cultural shifts that characterized the new century and much of what followed long thereafter, even to the present. Three tropes are central: the tensions and traumas—cultural, social, and personal—associated with modernity; changes in human subjectivity and its engagement and representation in music and film; and the more general societal impact of modern media, sound recording (the development of the phonograph in particular), and the critical role played by early-century opera recording. A principal focus of the book is the conflicted relationship in Western modernity to nature, particularly as nature is perceived in opposition to culture and articulated through music, film, and sound as agents of fundamental, sometimes shocking transformation. The book considers the sound/vision world of modernity filtered through the lens of aesthetic modernism and rapid technological change, and the impact of both, experienced with the prescient sense that there could be no turning back.