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Puccini's La Boheme (Hardcover)
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Puccini's La Boheme (Hardcover)
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Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme is one of the most frequently performed
operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? In this
book, author Alexandra Wilson traces La Boheme's rise to fame and
demonstrates that its success grew steadily through stage
performances, recordings, filmed versions and the endorsements of
star singers. More recently, popular songs, film soundtracks and
musicals that draw on the opera's music and themes added further to
its immense cultural impact. This cultural history offers a fresh
reading of a familiar work. Wilson argues that La Boheme's approach
to realism and its flouting of conventions of the Italian operatic
tradition made it strikingly modern for the 1890s. She explores how
Puccini and his librettists engaged with gender, urban poverty and
nostalgia-themes that grew out of the work's own time and continue
to resonate with audiences more than 120 years later. Her analysis
of the opera's depiction of Paris reveals that La Boheme was not
only influenced by the romantic mythologies surrounding the city to
this day but also helped shape them. Wilson's consideration of how
directors have reinvented this opera for a new age completes this
fascinating history of La Boheme, making it essential reading for
anyone interested in this opera and the works it inspired.
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