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Puccini and The Girl (Paperback)
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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
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