Giacomo Puccini and His World /

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

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 variet...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; 20 halftones. 10 tables. nine musical examples.
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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

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