Giacomo Puccini and His World / / ed. by Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Baranello, Micaela,; Botstein, Leon,; Campana, Alessandra,; Earle, Ben,; Groos, Arthur,; Lockhart, Ellen,; Merian, Hans,; Morris, Christopher,; Schwartz, Arman,; Senici, Emanuele,
• HerausgeberIn: Schwartz, Arman,; Senici, Emanuele,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: The Bard Music Festival ; 41
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.) :; 20 halftones. 10 tables. nine musical examples.

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 A rich array of primary source material, including previously unpublished letters and documents, provides vital information on Puccini's interactions with singers, conductors, and stage directors, and on the early reception of the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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Permissions -- Introduction: Puccini, His World, and Ours -- Part I. Essays -- Realism and Skepticism in Puccini's Early Operas -- Madama Butterfly Between East and West -- Laggiù nel Soledad: Indexing and Archiving the Operatic West -- The Swallow and the Lark: La rondine and Viennese Operetta -- Puccini's Things: Materials and Media in Il trittico -- Puccini, Fascism, and the Case of Turandot -- Music, Language, and Meaning in Opera: Puccini and His Contemporaries -- Part II. Documents -- Puccini on His Interpreters -- The Verismo Debate -- Leoncavallo's Pagliacci And Modern-Realistic Opera -- Albert Carré's Staging Manual for Madama Butterfly (1906) -- Selections from Fausto Torrefranca's Giacomo Puccini and International Opera -- Index -- Contributors -- Backmatter