| Description |
viii, 350 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Puccini, his world, and ours / Emanuele Senici -- part 1. Essays. Realism and skepticism in Puccini's early operas / Arman Schwartz -- Madama Butterfly between east and west / Arthur Groos -- Laggiù nel Soledad: indexing and archiving the operatic west / Ellen Lockhart -- The swallow and the lark: La rondine and Viennese operetta / Micaela Baranello -- Puccini's things: materials and media in Il trittico / Alessandra Campana and Christopher Morris -- Puccini, fascism, and the case of Turandot / Ben Earle -- Music, language, and meaning in opera: Puccini and his contemporaries / Leon Botstein -- part 2. Documents. Puccini on his interpreters / introduction, translation, and commentary by Emanuele Senici -- The Verismo debate / introduction, translation, and commentary by Arman Schwartz -- Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and modern-realistic opera / by Hans Merian ; introduction by Walter Frisch, translation and notes by Elaine Fitz Gibbon -- Albert Carré's staging manual for Madama Butterfly (1906) / introduction by Michele Girardi, translation by Delia Casadei; staging manual translation by Steven Huebner -- Selections from Fausto Torrefranca's Giacomo Puccini and international opera / introduction by Alexandra Wilson, translation by Delia Casadei -- Index. |
| Subject |
Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924.
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Puccini, Giacomo, 1858-1924. |
| Added Author |
Schwartz, Arman, editor.
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Senici, Emanuele, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780691172859 Cloth |
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0691172854 Cloth |
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9780691172866 Paper |
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0691172862 Paper |
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