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Verdi and Puccini Heroines - Dramatic Characterization in Great Soprano Roles (Paperback)
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Verdi and Puccini Heroines - Dramatic Characterization in Great Soprano Roles (Paperback)
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New in paperback! This book comes at a time when opera-lovers,
singers, directors, and critics alike are taking a new look at the
dramatic soprano heroines created by Giuseppe Verdi and Giacomo
Puccini, endeavoring to delve beyond inherited scholarly
interpretation and gain a richer understanding of these compelling
female characters. Artistically limited by the bel canto musical
tradition popular at the time, Verdi launched a new style dramma
per musica which also demanded a new soprano archetype. This book
illustrates the musical evolution of the Verdi and Puccini soprano
while illuminating the dramatic scope and power of these great
heroines. Avoiding critical reductionism, Verdi and Puccini
Heroines provides an unprecedented and probing discussion of how
these great soprano roles were conceived and executed. Accordingly,
the authors take a three-dimensional look at these heroines,
examining seven operas: Il Trovatore, La Forza del Destino, Aida,
La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. The chapters,
which are fully self-contained analyses, contain translations,
illustrative musical examples, supplementary notes, and references
to each opera's literary sources. The musical analysis, while
thorough, is descriptive and accessible to all levels of readers.
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