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Great Operas Of Puccini
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Author : Michael Steen
language : en
Publisher: Great Opera Companion - Individual Guides to a Hundred Best Operas
Release Date : 2019-04-24
Great Operas Of Puccini written by Michael Steen and has been published by Great Opera Companion - Individual Guides to a Hundred Best Operas this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-24 with categories.
The Great Operas Of Giacomo Puccini An Account Of The Life And Work Of This Distinguished Composer With Particular Attention To His Operas
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Author : Gustav Kobbe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12-14
The Great Operas Of Giacomo Puccini An Account Of The Life And Work Of This Distinguished Composer With Particular Attention To His Operas written by Gustav Kobbe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-14 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"The Great Operas of Giacomo Puccini" is a detailed account of the life and work of Giacomo Puccini by Gustav Kobbé, with a particular focus on his operatic compositions. Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924) was a famous Italian opera composer. He is often hailed as "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi." His most notable compositions include: "La Bohème" (1896), "Tosca" (1900), "Madama Butterfly" (1904), and "Turandot" (1924). This volume is highly recommended for opera lovers and is not to be missed by those with an interest in the life and work of one of it's greatest figures. Gustav Kobbé (1857 - 1918) was an American author and music critic famous for his guide to the operas, "The Complete Opera Book," (1919). Other notable works by this author include: "The Ring of the Nibelung" (1887), "Wagner's Life and Works" (1890), and "New York and its Environs" (1891). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new introduction on the history of the theatre.
Puccini S Tosca
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Author : Michael Steen
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Release Date : 2013-02-20
Puccini S Tosca written by Michael Steen and has been published by Icon Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-20 with Music categories.
Tosca's première in Rome in January 1900 was nearly disrupted by a terrorist threat to blow up Italy's King Umberto. Victorien Sardou had written the melodrama for the great actress Sarah Bernhardt. Giacomo Puccini's popular opera is a tale of sadism and brutality, torture, attempted rape, murder, an execution and two suicides. 'Realism' was in vogue: Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana had been a great success, as had Leoncavallo's Pagliacci. With sharp practice, the publisher Giulio Ricordi obtained 'Tosca' for Puccini, who had already composed Manon Lescaut and La Bohème. The story, set in the Napoleonic, era was ideal for Puccini, a chain-smoker who enjoyed women, shooting birds, and high-speed motor cars. A political prisoner seeks sanctuary in the church where prima donna Floria Tosca's lover Cavaradossi, a role associated with Pavarotti, is painting a picture of Mary Magdalen. In Va, Tosca! the police chief Scarpia fantasises about Tosca during a Te Deum celebrating Napoleon's victory. Tosca stabs Scarpia following the famous operatic aria, Vissi d'arte, immortalised by Maria Callas on stage and in the film produced by Franco Zeffirelli. Awaiting death before dawn in the Castel Sant'Angelo, Cavaradossi sings the well-known arias E lucevan le stelle and O dolci mani. Tosca's attempt to save him comes to nothing. Written by Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, 'Short Guides to Great Operas' are concise, entertaining and easy to read. They are packed with useful information and informed opinion, helping to make you a truly knowledgeable opera-goer, and so maximising your enjoyment of a great musical experience. Other 'Short Guides to Great Operas' that you may enjoy include La bohème, Madama Butterfly and Carmen.
Puccini S La Boh Me
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Author : Michael Steen
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Release Date : 2012-05-17
Puccini S La Boh Me written by Michael Steen and has been published by Icon Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-17 with Music categories.
Puccini's obsession with detail ensured the success of La Bohème, his opera about the impoverished 'artistes' in Paris in the 1830s. Soon after its première, people started calling their baby daughters Mimi. The story of this seamstress, her hectic but fraught love affair with the poet Rodolfo and her tragic death from consumption (tuberculosis), never fail to touch the audience. Che gelida manina, Mi chiamano Mimì ..., and O soave fanciulla have become some of the most popular operatic excerpts, sung by stars ranging from Callas to Gheorghiu, Caruso to Pavarotti. Written by Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, 'Short Guides to Great Operas' are concise, entertaining and easy to read books about opera. Each is an opera guide packed with useful information and informed opinion, helping to make you a truly knowledgeable opera-goer, and so maximising your enjoyment of a great musical experience. Other 'Short Guides to Great Operas' that you may enjoy include Madama Butterfly, Tosca and Turandot.
Puccini S Turandot
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Author : William Ashbrook
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-12-25
Puccini S Turandot written by William Ashbrook and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-25 with Music categories.
Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera. Here they provide concrete instances of how a listener might encounter the dramatic and musical structures of Turandot in light of the Italian melodramma, and firmly establish Puccini's last work within the tradition of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi. In a summary of the sounds, sights, and symbolism of Turandot, the authors touch on earlier treatments of the subject, outline the conception, birth, and reception of the work, and analyze its coordinated dramatic and musical design. Showing how the evolution of the libretto documents Puccini's reversion to large musical forms typical of the Great Tradition in the late nineteenth century, they give particular attention to his use of contrasting Romantic, modernist, and two kinds of orientalist coloration in the general musical structure. They suggest that Puccini's inability to complete the opera resulted mainly from inadequate dramatic buildup for Turandot's last-minute change of heart combined with an overly successful treatment of the secondary character.
Puccini S Madama Butterfly
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Author : Michael Steen
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Release Date : 2012-05-18
Puccini S Madama Butterfly written by Michael Steen and has been published by Icon Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-18 with Music categories.
Butterfly is a delicate and impressionable geisha who thinks she has married Pinkerton, a US naval officer briefly stationed in Japan. Naive and loving as she is, she does not realise that for him the marriage is a sham, an extended 'date'. It's not long before he goes away, leaving her pregnant. Still, she trusts that he will return one fine day (Un bel dì). He does, but it is not the homecoming of which Madame Butterfly dreamed: she is devastated to discover that the callous Pinkerton is now married to an American girl. Heartbroken and despairing, Butterfly commits suicide in one of the most tragic and moving climaxes in opera. In this operatic masterpiece, Puccini depicts the clash of two cultures, weaving 'The Star-spangled Banner' throughout his music. The Humming Chorus, Ah! Dolce notte! ('Oh, night of rapture'), and the Flower Song join Un bel dì in any list of favourite tunes.Written by Michael Steen, author of the acclaimed The Lives and Times of the Great Composers, 'Short Guides to Great Operas' are concise, entertaining and easy to read books about opera. Each is an opera guide packed with useful information and informed opinion, helping to make you a truly knowledgeable opera-goer, and so maximising your enjoyment of a great musical experience.Other 'Short Guides to Great Operas' that you may enjoy include those on Tosca, La Bohème and Lucia di Lammermoor.
Giacomo Puccini
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Author : Wakeling Dry
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
Release Date : 2020-09-28
Giacomo Puccini written by Wakeling Dry and has been published by Library of Alexandria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-28 with Fiction categories.
Famous Puccini Operas
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Author : Spike Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Famous Puccini Operas written by Spike Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Operas categories.
Famous Puccini Operas
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Author : Spike Hughes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Famous Puccini Operas written by Spike Hughes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Music categories.
Musical illustrations and background information for each opera support an examination of the composer's career
Puccini S La Boheme The Dover Opera Libretto Series
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Author : Giacomo Puccini
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 1984-01-01
Puccini S La Boheme The Dover Opera Libretto Series written by Giacomo Puccini and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984-01-01 with Music categories.
Next to Verdi's Ada, Giacomo Puccini's La Bohme is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of Ada, La Bohme, Carmen, and Don Giovanni ? the four operas most often performed ? constitute approximately 75 percent of the yearly schedule of operas throughout the world. This volume contains everything the opera goer needs to derive full satisfaction from La Bohme except the musical score itself. Most important, it provides the complete text of the Italian libretto, just as it is actually sung; that is, where a singer repeats a phrase several times, each of the repetitions is given here. And facing the Italian text is a completely new translation of the libretto into modern, idiomatic English. In addition to the libretto and English translation, this edition provides a careful, concise summary of the plot of La Bohme and a complete list of the opera's characters. There is also a brief, highly informative introduction by the translator that traces Puccini's masterpiece back to its source in Henry Murger's autobiographical novel La Vie Bohme, illuminating the early history of the opera and its later development. Opera lovers can use this book with their own recordings of the opera, read it before attending a performance, or can easily take it along to the performance itself. Those who have regretted the lack of a good, authentic, readable edition of the Italian libretto of La Bohme, and have complained of the stodginess of existing English translations, will recognize in this book a first-rate aid to the understanding of one of Puccini's most celebrated operas.