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 cliches 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primary source material, including previously unpublished letters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.
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