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Operas by Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, Manon Lescaut, La Fanciulla del West, La Rondine

Operas by Giacomo Puccini: La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, Manon Lescaut, La Fanciulla del West, La Rondine


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: La boheme, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, Manon Lescaut, La fanciulla del West, La rondine, Le Villi, Il tabarro, Edgar, Suor Angelica, La boheme discography, Il trittico. Excerpt: Tosca (Italian pronunciation: ) is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of Italy. It contains depictions of torture, murder and suicide, yet also includes some of Puccini's best-known lyrical arias, and has inspired memorable performances from many of opera's leading singers. Puccini saw Sardou's play when it was touring Italy in 1889 and, after some vacillation, obtained the rights to turn the work into an opera in 1895. Turning the wordy French play into a succinct Italian opera took four years, during which the composer repeatedly argued with his librettists and publisher. Tosca premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was delayed for a day for fear of disturbances. Despite indifferent reviews from the critics, the opera was an immediate success with the public. Musically, Tosca is structured as a through-composed work, with arias, recitative, choruses and other elements musically woven into a seamless whole. Puccini used Wagnerian leitmotifs (short musical statements) to identify characters, objects and ideas. While critics have frequently dismissed the opera as a facile melodrama with confusions of plot-musicologist Joseph Kerman famously called it a "shabby little shocker"-the power of its score and the inventiveness of its orchestration have been wide...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155377513
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 108
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Weight: 209 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155377516
  • Publisher Date: 04 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, Manon Lescaut, La Fanciulla del West, La Rondine
  • Width: 189 mm


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