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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schwartz, Arman, editor.

Senici, Emanuele, editor.

Series:

Bard Music Festival series.

The Bard Music Festival ; 41

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.

Puccini, Giacomo.

Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924--Criticism and interpretation.

Musicians--Biography.

Musicians.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

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 A rich array of primary source material, including previously unpublished letters and documents, provides vital information on Puccini's interactions with singers, conductors, and stage directors, and on the early reception of the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

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Permissions

Introduction: Puccini, His World, and Ours / Senici, Emanuele

Part I. Essays

Realism and Skepticism in Puccini's Early Operas / Schwartz, Arman

Madama Butterfly Between East and West / Groos, Arthur

Laggiù nel Soledad: Indexing and Archiving the Operatic West / Lockhart, Ellen

The Swallow and the Lark: La rondine and Viennese Operetta / Baranello, Micaela

Puccini's Things: Materials and Media in Il trittico / Campana, Alessandra / Morris, Christopher

Puccini, Fascism, and the Case of Turandot / Earle, Ben

Music, Language, and Meaning in Opera: Puccini and His Contemporaries / Botstein, Leon

Part II. Documents

Puccini on His Interpreters

The Verismo Debate

Leoncavallo's Pagliacci And Modern-Realistic Opera / Merian, Hans

Albert Carré's Staging Manual for Madama Butterfly (1906)

Selections from Fausto Torrefranca's Giacomo Puccini and International Opera

Index

Contributors

Backmatter

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9781785399893

1785399896

9781400884063

1400884063

OCLC:

951807412