The Puccini Companion

Author : William Weaver
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393320527
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Puccini Companion written by William Weaver and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and informative collection touches upon all of the master's operas and also offers select bibliographies, a chronology, and a dramatis personae of the countless people who participated in Puccini's career.

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Journeys Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1930841620
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Opera Classics Library Puccini Companion written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Journeys Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-05 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to Puccini's 12 operas, featuring insightful and in depth Commentary and Analysis, Story Narratives with over 120 Music Highlight Examples, and a newly translated Libretto of each opera (exclusing Turandot) with Italian English side-by-side.

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Download or read book Puccini Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Burton D. Fisher
Publisher : Opera Classics Library Series
ISBN 13 : 9781942317197
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Summary and Analysis written by Burton D. Fisher and published by Opera Classics Library Series. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study guide featuring each of Puccini's 12 operas. The study guide includes fully translated libretto for each opera; principal characters; story narrative with music examples; a biography of Puccini; and an in depth and insightful commentary and analysis by Burton D. Fisher, opera historian, lecturer and author.

Author : Roger Flury
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810883295
Total Pages : 937 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giacomo Puccini written by Roger Flury and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 937 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders. Now at a time when the 25-year reign of the compact disc appears to be coming to an end is the moment to take stock of the history of recordings of arguably the most popular composer of operas, Giacomo Puccini. In Giacomo Puccini: A Discography, librarian and music historian Roger Flury looks at each opera chronologically from Le Villi to Turandot, followed by sections on Puccini's instrumental, chamber, orchestral, and solo vocal works. Details of each complete opera are listed by recording date, followed by excerpts in the order in which they occur in the opera. Recordings of each aria are listed alphabetically by the name of the artist. For ease of use, Flury establishes as the main criteria for inclusion those recordings assigned a commercial issue number and available for purchase. This book does not limit itself to mainstream recordings but includes as well 'unofficial' recordings taken from broadcasts or illegally recorded in theaters, ensuring that the audio recording history of Puccini is free of gaps. (Video and DVD issues, whether of staged performances or excerpts in concert, are not included unless they have been issued in a sound-only format.) This volume brings together information on nearly 10,000 recordings of Puccini's music. It provides a comprehensive overview of the recorded history of the composer's works and serves as a useful guide for the transfer of recordings from one format to another.

Author : Eduardo Rescigno
Publisher : Musicians Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 9780634091230
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puccini Dictionary written by Eduardo Rescigno and published by Musicians Institute Press. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handy A to Z listing on one of the world's greatest opera composers. Translated from the Italian edition, this book describes over 500 Puccini related topics including all the complete music works, the singers, events, locations, and historical trivia that surrounded this legendary composer and the performances. It starts with a twenty page Chronology and also features a complete bibliography, discography and videography. This is not only the ultimate Puccini companion, but a great source of info on the history of opera during this golden era.

Author : Linda Beard Fairtile
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815320333
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giacomo Puccini written by Linda Beard Fairtile and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Mervyn Cooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521780094
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera written by Mervyn Cooke and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Companion celebrates the extraordinary riches of the twentieth-century operatic repertoire in a collection of specially commissioned essays written by a distinguished team of academics, critics and practitioners. Beginning with a discussion of the century's vital inheritance from late-romantic operatic traditions in Germany and Italy, the text embraces fresh investigations into various aspects of the genre in the modern age, with a comprehensive coverage of the work of individual composers from Debussy and Schoenberg to John Adams and Harrison Birtwistle. Traditional stylistic categorizations (including symbolism, expressionism, neo-classicism and minimalism) are reassessed from new critical perspectives, and the distinctive operatic traditions of Continental and Eastern Europe, Russia and the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and United States are subjected to fresh scrutiny. The volume includes essays devoted to avant-garde music theatre, operettas and musicals, filmed opera, and ends with a discussion of the position of the genre in today's cultural marketplace.

Author : Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781555535308
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puccini written by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002-10-03 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterful biography provides the most authentic and revealing portrait to date of this major operatic composer

Author : Annie Janeiro Randall
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226703894
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Puccini and The Girl written by Annie Janeiro Randall and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the American West during the California Gold Rush, La fanciulla del West marked a significant departure from Giacomo Puccini's previous and best- known works. Puccini and the Girl is the first book to explore this important but often misunderstood opera that became the earliest work by a major European composer to receive an American premiere when it opened at New York's Metropolitan Opera House in 1910. Adapted from American playwright David Belasco's Broadway production, The Girl of the Golden West, Fanciulla was Puccini's most consciously modern work, and its Met debut received mixed reviews. Annie J. Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis base their account of its creation on previously unknown letters from Puccini to his main librettist, Carlo Zangarini. They mine musical materials, newspaper accounts, and rare photographs and illustrations to tell the full story of this controversial opera. Puccini and the Girl considers the production and reception of Puccini's "cowboy" opera in the light of contemporary criticism, providing both fascinating insight into its history and a look to the future as its centenary approaches. “Engrossing. . . . An eminently readable, ideally direct and information-packed book.”—William Fregosi, Opera Today