Giacomo Puccini La Boheme

Author : Giacomo Puccini
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486246078
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puccini's La Boheme (the Dover Opera Libretto Series) written by Giacomo Puccini and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Next to Verdi's A‹da, Giacomo Puccini's La BohŠme is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of A‹da, La BohŠme, 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 BohŠme 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 BohŠme 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 BohŠme, 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 BohŠme, 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.

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Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781579125097
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Boheme written by and published by Black Dog & Leventhal Pub. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Burton, Fisher D. Publishing Staff
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0967397340
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Boheme written by Burton, Fisher D. Publishing Staff and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2000-04 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexandra Wilson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190637889
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puccini's la Bohème written by Alexandra Wilson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "La bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? Drawing on an extremely broad range of sources, Alexandra Wilson traces the opera's rise to global fame. Although the work has been subjected to many hostile critiques, it swiftly achieved popular success through stage performances, recordings and filmed versions. Wilson demonstrates how La bohème acquired even greater cultural influence as its music and dramatic themes began to be incorporated into pop songs, film soundtracks, musicals and more"--

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Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780769246161
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Boheme written by and published by Alfred Music Publishing. This book was released on 1985-03 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expertly arranged Vocal Score by Giacomo Puccini from the Kalmus Edition series. This is from the Romantic era.

Author : Arman Schwartz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691172862
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giacomo Puccini and His World written by Arman Schwartz and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 clichés 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 "realist" 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.

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0977132021
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puccini's la Boheme written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Puccini's LA BOHEME, featuring Principal Characters in the opera, Brief Story Synopsis, Story Narrative with over 20 Music Highlight Examples, a complete, newly translated LIBRETTO with English/Italian side-by-side, selected Discography and Videography, Dictionary of Opera and Musical Terms, and an insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis by Burton D. Fisher, noted opera author and lecturer.

Author : Arthur Groos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521319133
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bohème written by Arthur Groos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986-08-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide presents a unique collection of critical, analytical and documentary essays on Puccini's most popular opera. It includes new studies on the background to Parisian bohemianism, Puccini's musical language, and the opera's stage history as well as the genesis of the opera, the structure of the libretto, and aspects of the work's reception.

Author : Michael Steen
Publisher : Icon Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1848314647
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puccini's La Bohème written by Michael Steen and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Henri Murger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter written by Henri Murger and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: