Schwartz / Senici Giacomo Puccini and His World

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-4008-8406-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 41, 360 Seiten

Reihe: The Bard Music Festival

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Schwartz, Arman

Senici, Emanuele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Sinfonische Musik & Ensembles
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Opernmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Permissions viii

Introduction: Puccini, His World, and Ours 1

EMANUELE SENICI

PART I: Essays

Realism and Skepticism in Puccini’s Early Operas 29

ARMAN SCHWARTZ

Madama Butterfly Between East and West 49

ARTHUR GROOS

Laggiù nel Soledad: Indexing and Archiving the Operatic West 85

ELLEN LOCKHART

The Swallow and the Lark: La rondine and Viennese Operetta 111

MICAELA BARANELLO

Puccini’s Things: Materials and Media in Il trittico 133

ALESSANDRA CAMPANA AND CHRISTOPHER MORRIS

Puccini, Fascism, and the Case of Turandot 159

BEN EARLE

Music, Language, and Meaning in Opera: Puccini and His Contemporaries 183

LEON BOTSTEIN

PART II: Documents

Puccini on His Interpreters 229

INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY BY EMANUELE SENICI

The Verismo Debate 261

INTRODUCTION, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY BY ARMAN SCHWARTZ

Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci and Modern-Realistic Opera 273

by Hans Merian

INTRODUCTION BY WALTER FRISCH,

TRANSLATION AND NOTES BY ELAINE FITZ GIBBON

Albert Carré’s Staging Manual for Madama Butterfly (1906) 291

INTRODUCTION BY MICHELE GIRARDI, TRANSLATION BY DELIA CASADEI;

STAGING MANUAL TRANSLATION BY STEVEN HUEBNER

Selections from Fausto Torrefranca’s Giacomo Puccini and International Opera 323

INTRODUCTION BY ALEXANDRA WILSON,

TRANSLATION BY DELIA CASADEI

Index 337

Notes on Contributors 347

Über Autor(innen)

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.