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Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105129656786
While Puccini wrote only twelve operas during a long life--three of them one-acters designed to be performed together--he has to be ranked today as the world's most popular composer of opera. His La Boh
Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983-08-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 0306802007
While Puccini wrote only twelve operas during a long life—three of them one-acters designed to be performed together—he has to be ranked today as the world's most popular composer of opera. His La Bohème and Tosca are more frequently performed in the major opera houses than works by other composers, and Madame Butterfly and Manon Lescaut rank not far behind. What is the explanation for Puccini's enormous success? How do his operas work as music and drama? What was he like to contemporaries such as Verdi, Toscanini, and Caruso? Charles Osborne, author of highly successful Complete Operas of Verdi and Complete Operas of Mozart, here analyzes the entire Puccini oeuvre—from Tosca and Turandot to the less-often performed Edgar, La Fanciulla del West, and La Rondine. His fourfold approach—linking biography with musical, textual, and dramatic analysis—is especially valuable for Puccini, who revealed many of his personal contradictions in his music and whose sense of detail can be appreciated by close study of the scores and characters. For the legions of Puccini lovers everywhere, this guide to his life and work can serve as an ideal reference source and opera companion.
Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Opera
ISBN : OCLC:465814480
Author : William Berger
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780307542908
Puccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades movie soundtracks, and his plots have infiltrated our popular culture. But, although Puccini’s art still captivates audiences and the popularity of such works as Tosca, La Bohéme, and Madama Butterfly has never waned, he has long been a victim of critical snobbery and cultural marginalization. In this witty and informative guide for beginners and fans alike, William Berger sets the record straight, reclaiming Puccini as a serious artist. Combining his trademark irreverent humor with passionate enthusiasm, Berger strikes just the right balance of introductory information and thought-provoking analysis. He includes a biography, discussions of each opera, a glossary, fun facts and anecdotes, and above all keen insight into Puccini’s enduring power. For anyone who loves Puccini and for anyone who just wonders what all the fuss is about, Puccini Without Excuses is funny, challenging, and always a pleasure to read. INCLUDES: • Why Puccini’s art and its message of hope is crucial to our world today • How Anglo audiences often miss the mythic significance of his operas • The use of his music as shorthand in films, from A Room with a View to Fatal Attraction • A scene-by scene analysis of each opera • A guide to the wealth of available recordings, books, and videos
Author : Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1555535305
This masterful biography provides the most authentic and revealing portrait to date of this major operatic composer
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1579125093
Contains the complete text of the libretto with annotations in both English and Italian and a critical historical commentary. The text also includes the background of the composer, biographies of the principal singers and conductor. The two accompanying CDs contain the complete opera sung in Italian.
Author : Julian Budden
Publisher : Master Musicians
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195179743
Julian Budden provides a look at the process of putting an opera together, the cut-and-slash of nineteenth-century Italian opera, -the struggle to find the right performers for the debut of La Boheme, Puccini's anxiety about completing Turandot (he in fact died of cancer before he did so), and his animosity toward his rival Leoncavallo (whom he called Leonasino or "lion-ass"). Budden provides an analysis of the operas themselves, examining the music act by act. He highlights, among other things, the influence of Wagner on Puccini--alone among his Italian contemporaries, Puccini followed Wagner's example in bringing the motif into the forefront of his narrative, sometimes voicing the singer's unexpressed thoughts, sometimes sending out a signal to the audience of which the character is unaware. And Budden also paints a portrait of Puccini the man--talented but modest, a man who had friends from every walk of life: shopkeepers, priests, wealthy landowners, fellow artists. --From publisher's description.
Author : William Ashbrook,Harold Powers
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400866670
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.
Author : Michele Girardi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0226297578
Puccini's operas are among the most popular and widely performed in the world, yet few books have examined his body of work from an analytical perspective. This volume remedies that lack in lively prose accessible to scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.
Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486246079
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.
Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015002828336
Charles Osborne provides detailed descriptions of the major operas by Mozart in a volume that serves as both a biography and a critical guide to the composer's oeuvre. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author : Mosco Carner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1985-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521296617
A guide for opera goers to Tosca, which includes a synopsis of the plot and discussions on style.
Author : Charles Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Opera
ISBN : OCLC:465814480
Author : Colin Kendell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781445612638
Looks at Giacomo Puccini through his operas
Author : Deborah Burton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Opera
ISBN : UCBK:C102951160
Who is Puccini? Most debates about the composer are focused on his cultural and musical identity: is his music traditional or progressive? The thesis of this volume is that the diametrically opposed forces of the traditional and the progressive live together in Puccini's music, embedded deeply within his harmonic constructs and in many musical parameters. Recondite Harmony is a study of all of Puccini's operas examined through a primarily analytic lens. It offers essays on salient aspects of each of the operas while tracing in them both progressive and traditional elements. The volume is divided into two parts: in the first, approaches that inform the entire corpus of Puccini's operas are examined. The second half of the book is devoted to brief essays discussing interesting aspects of each of his operas. Techniques in each opus that merit analytic attention are highlighted and discussed in relation to the drama at hand, individuating more fully musical aspects special to each score. Included are also previously unpublished source material and autograph sketches.