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Tosca

Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher : Alma Books
ISBN 13 : 0714544787
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (145 download)

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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 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tosca, one of Puccini's greatest and most popular operas, is a supreme example of music's power to enthral the audience. In his introductory essay to this guide, Bernard Williams discusses the enduring quality of its appeal. Bernard Keeffe, in his article, analyses different aspects of the score, noting Puccini's special genius for orchestration and the subtle effects that give the opera its irresistible vitality, while Stuart Woolf's survey of the historical background reveals its political and nationalistic undertones.Enriched by twenty-five archive photographs, a detailed thematic analysis, the original libretto with the facing literal translation and a section containing up-to-date discographical and bibliographical information, this guide will prove an invaluable companion for opera-goers and anyone wanting to delve deeper into the genesis, history and significance of Puccini's work.Contains:Manifest Artifice, Bernard WilliamsThe Music of Puccini's Tosca, Bernard KeeffeHistorical Perspectives on Tosca, Stuart WoolfTosca: Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after the play La Tosca by Victorien SardouTosca: English translation by EMI Classics

Giacomo Puccini: Tosca

Author : Mosco Carner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521296618
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (966 download)

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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.

La Tosca

Author : Victorien Sardou
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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.

Tosca's Rome

Author : Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226579726
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (797 download)

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Book Synopsis Tosca's Rome by : Susan Vandiver Nicassio

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

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.

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.

La rondine ; Tosca ; Il trittico: Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi ; Le villi

Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book La rondine ; Tosca ; Il trittico: Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi ; Le villi written by Giacomo Puccini and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Puccini's Tosca

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0977132048
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (771 download)

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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.

Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802008008
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation by : Robin Healey

Download or read book Twentieth-century Italian Literature in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography lists English-language translations of twentieth-century Italian literature published chiefly in book form between 1929 and 1997, encompassing fiction, poetry, plays, screenplays, librettos, journals and diaries, and correspondence.

Tosca's Prism

Author : Deborah Burton
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555536169
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Tosca's Prism written by Deborah Burton and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished musicologists, historians, theater professionals, and luminaries of the operatic stage reflect on European history in 1800, 1900 and 2000 through the prism of Puccini's Tosca.

The Metropolitan Opera Presents: Puccini's Tosca

Author : Luigi Illica
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1574674501
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (746 download)

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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.

The Puccini Companion

Author : William Weaver
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320527
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book The Puccini Companion written by William Weaver and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and informative collection touches upon all of the master's operas and also offers select bibliographies, a chronology, and a dramatis personae of the countless people who participated in Puccini's career.

Giacomo Puccini

Author : Linda B. Fairtile
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135592349
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Giacomo Puccini written by Linda B. Fairtile and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly recognition of Giacomo Puccini's achievements as a musical dramatist has been growing steadily for more than 75 years. This useful volume surveys and evaluates close to 700 books and articles about the composer, written in English, Italian, German, French and Spanish. Additional features include an essay on the evolution of Puccini studies, an annotated discography/videography, a guide to manuscript materials, and a list of organizations devoted to Puccini. This useful volume surveys and evaluates close to 700 books and articles about the composer, written in English, Italian, German, French and Spanish. Additional features include an essay on the evolution of Puccini studies, an annotated discography/videography, a guide to manuscript materials, and a list of organizations devoted to Puccini.

Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation

Author : Robin Healey
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487531907
Total Pages : 1104 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Italian Literature since 1900 in English Translation written by Robin Healey and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-03-14 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most complete record possible of texts by Italian writers active after 1900, this annotated bibliography covers over 4,800 distinct editions of writings by some 1,700 Italian authors. Many entries are accompanied by useful notes that provide information on the authors, works, translators, and the reception of the translations. This book includes the works of Pirandello, Calvino, Eco, and more recently, Andrea Camilleri and Valerio Manfredi. Together with Robin Healey’s Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation, also published by University of Toronto Press in 2011, this volume makes comprehensive information on translations from Italian accessible for schools, libraries, and those interested in comparative literature.

Puccini

Author : Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535308
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (353 download)

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Download or read book Puccini written by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful biography provides the most authentic and revealing portrait to date of this major operatic composer

The Operas of Puccini

Author : William Ashbrook
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801493096
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Operas of Puccini written by William Ashbrook and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life.

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.