Two Deaths of Signora Puccini
Author: Stephen Dobyns
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 272
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Author: Stephen Dobyns
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Ashbrook
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780801493096
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life.
Author: George Richard Marek
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Published: 1952
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michele Girardi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000-08-15
Total Pages: 558
ISBN-13: 9780226297576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPuccini'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.
Author: Julian Budden
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-09-22
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ISBN-13: 0195346254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJulian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera and author of a monumental three-volume study of Verdi's works, now offers music lovers a major new biography of one of the giants of Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini. Blending astute musical analysis with a colorful account of Puccini's life, here is an illuminating look at some of the most popular operas in the repertoire, including Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. Budden provides an illuminating 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), his animosity toward his rival Leoncavallo (whom he called Leonasino or "lion-ass"). Budden provides an informative 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 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. Affable, well mannered, gifted with a broad sense of fun, he rarely failed to charm all who met him. A new volume in the esteemed Master Musicians series, Puccini offers a masterful portrait of this beloved Italian composer.
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Published: 1904
Total Pages: 946
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