Giacomo Puccini and His World (eBook)

Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici (Herausgeber)

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2016
360 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8406-3 (ISBN)

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Arman Schwartz is a Birmingham Fellow in Music at the University of Birmingham and a member of the editorial board of Opera Quarterly. Emanuele Senici is professor of music history at the University of Rome la Sapienza and a former editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal.

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 A rich array of primary source material, including previously unpublished letters and documents, provides vital information on Puccini's interactions with singers, conductors, and stage directors, and on the early reception of the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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.8.2016
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Zusatzinfo: 20 halftones. 10 tables. nine musical examples.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Schlagworte: Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia • Aestheticism • A Florentine Tragedy • Aleko (Rachmaninoff) • alessandro scarlatti • Amilcare Ponchielli • Annalisa • Appoggiatura • Arturo Toscanini • baritone • Benedetto Croce • Beniamino Gigli • Bourgeoisie • Cambridge University Press • Carlo Gozzi • Cavalleria rusticana • Claudio Monteverdi • Comic opera • Commedia dell'arte • Composer • Critical edition (opera) • Culture of Italy • d'angelo • Das Judenthum in der Musik • David Belasco • Demimonde • Der Rosenkavalier • Don Giovanni • Donna non vidi mai • Dramaturgy • Elektra (opera) • english national opera • Enrico Caruso • Enrico Corradini • Fascism and ideology • Filippo Tommaso Marinetti • for example • Francesco Tamagno • French Opera • Gaetano Donizetti • Genre • Giacomo Puccini • Gian Francesco Malipiero • Gianni Schicchi • Giovacchino Forzano • Giovanni Papini • Giovanni Zenatello • Giudecca • Giulio Gatti-Casazza • Giuseppe Adami • Giuseppe De Luca • Giuseppe Giacosa • Goethe's Faust • Grand opera • Henrik Ibsen • Igor Stravinsky • Ildebrando Pizzetti • Illustration • Il tabarro • Il trittico • Imitation (music) • Impresario • italian opera • Italians • Jacques Derrida • Jean Vigo • Jules Massenet • Julian Budden • La fanciulla del West • La Gioconda (opera) • La rondine • La Scala • La Traviata • Leitmotif • Leon Botstein • Le Villi • Libretto • Literature • Ludwig van Beethoven • Luigi Boccherini • Luigi Capuana • Luigi Dallapiccola • Luigi Illica • lyricism • Madama Butterfly • Maggio Musicale Fiorentino • Manliness (book) • Mannerism • Manon Lescaut • Manon Lescaut (Puccini) • Marcello • Melodrama • Metropolitan Opera • modernism • Modernity • musical language • Musical Theatre • Music History • Music Is • Music of Italy • musicology • Music publisher (popular music) • narrative • Nessun dorma • Opera • Opera and Drama • operetta • Orientalism • Ornament (music) • Otello • Otello (Rossini) • Pagliacci • Paolo Mantegazza • Paolo Virno • Parsifal • Paul Hindemith • Pianissimo • Pietro Mascagni • Poetry • Prospero Colonna • Recondita armonia • Rehearsal • rhetoric • Richard Strauss • Richard Wagner • Rigoletto • Romanticism • Rosina Storchio • Ruggero Leoncavallo • sentimentality • Singing • skepticism • Solipsism • Song and Dance • Songwriter • Sostenuto • Sturm und Drang • Suor Angelica • Symptom • The Barber of Seville • The Fermata • The Marriage of Figaro • Tiefland (opera) • Tosca • Toti Dal Monte • Tristan und Isolde • tutti • Umberto Giordano • Verismo (music) • Viareggio • Vienna State Opera • Vissi d'arte • William Ashbrook • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8406-3 / 1400884063
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8406-3 / 9781400884063