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Puccini's La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity (Paperback)
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Puccini's La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity (Paperback)
Series: Ashgate Interdisciplinary Studies in Opera
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On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini's seventh opera, La fanciulla
del West, had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York
City's Metropolitan Opera House. The performance was the
Metropolitan Opera Company's first world premiere by any composer.
By all accounts, the premiere was an unambiguous success and the
event itself recognized as a major moment in New York cultural
history. The initial public opinion matched Puccini's own
evaluation of his opera. He called it "the best he had ever
written" and expected it to become as popular as La Boheme. Yet the
music reviews tell a different story. Marked by ambivalence, the
reviews expose the New York City critics' struggle to reconcile the
opera they expected to see with the one they actually saw, and the
opera itself became embroiled in controversy over the essence of
musical Americanness and the nativist perception that a uniquely
American national opera tradition continued to elude both American-
and foreign-born opera composers. This book seeks to account for
the differences between Puccini's own assessments of the opera and
those of its first audience. Offering transcriptions of the central
reviews and of letters unavailable elsewhere, the book provides a
historically informed understanding of La fanciulla del West and
the reception of this European work as it intersected with both
opera production and consumption in the United States and with the
process of American musical identity formation during the very
period that Americans actively sought to eradicate European
cultural influences. As such, it offers a window into the
development of nativism and "cosmopolitan nationalism" in New York
City's musical life during the first decade of the twentieth
century.
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