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Puccini, Giacomo - jäˈkōmō poot-chēˈnē, 1858–1924, Italian composer of operas. He wrote some of the most popular works in the opera repertory. A descendant of a long line of musicians, he studied piano and organ at his Tuscan birthplace, Lucca, and in 1880 entered the Milan Conservatory. He first gained recognition with a one-act opera, Le

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Puccini: A Critical Biography » Read Now
by Mosco Carner. 500 pgs.

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...social history, published in Giacomo Puccini e i suoi antenati musicali...Illustrations Giacomo Puccini 1712-1781 14...sources: D Epistolario di Giacomo Puccini ed. Adami ...
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Puccini the Thinker: The Composer's Intellectual and Dramatic Development » Read Now
by John Louis Digaetani. 227 pgs.

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John Louis DiGaetani is Professor of English at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York.
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Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera from Rossini to Puccini » Read Now
by Daniele Pistone, E. Thomas Glasow. 259 pgs.

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...ITALIAN OPERA from Rossini to Puccini Daniele Pistone translated by...LOpera italien au XIXe siecle de Rossini a Puccini , was published in France by Editions...Opera...
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Puccini among Friends » Read Now
by Vincent Seligman. 378 pgs.

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...line bears the imprint of Giacomo Puccini as unmistakably as does a page...1858-1889 "--OPERA by Giacomo Puccini Born, 1858-- ." So ran the...great-grandfather also a...
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Opera and the Culture of Fascism (Chap. 4 "Puccini and the Swish of the Tosca's Skirts") » Read Now
by Jeremy Tambling. 280 pgs.

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Tambling draws on the insights of Adorno, Benjamin, Theweleit, Bataille, Kristeva, and others to read nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera as part of a culture which produced fascism as a crisis-state, and threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and contemporary form of high...
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Tambling draws on the insights of Adorno, Benjamin, Theweleit, Bataille, Kristeva, and others to read nineteenth- and early twentieth-century opera as part of a culture which produced fascism as a crisis-state, and threatened to extinguish the genre as an influential and contemporary form of high art. Examining over a dozen operas in detail, Tambling discovers an ideology with both reactionary and revolutionary potentials.
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Viva la Liberta! Politics in Opera (Chap. 8 "Interlude - Opera without Politics: Puccini and Strauss") » Read Now
by Anthony Arblaster. 345 pgs.

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Modern Music: Composers and Music of Our Time (Chap. 8 "Great Musicians from Strauss to Puccini") » Read Now
by Max Graf, Beatrice R. Maier. 322 pgs.

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Sign-Off for the Old Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1950-1966, Vol. 1 (Chap. Twelve "Puccini Ascendant") » Read Now
by Paul Jackson. 644 pgs.

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For more than sixty-five years, the weekly Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera have brought performances from one of the world's great opera companies to millions of listeners. Covering the period from the beginning of the Rudolf Bing era to the destruction of the old Met in...
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For more than sixty-five years, the weekly Saturday afternoon broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera have brought performances from one of the world's great opera companies to millions of listeners. Covering the period from the beginning of the Rudolf Bing era to the destruction of the old Met in 1966, the new volume surveys two hundred broadcasts featuring luminaries inherited from the Johnson regime (Flagstad, Milanov, Albanese, Steber, Stevens, Bjorling, Di Stefano, Tucker, Warren) and Bing recruits (De Los Angeles, Della Casa, Tebaldi, Nilsson, Price, Sutherland, Crespin, Siepi, Bergonzi, Vickers, Corelli), under the leadership of such great conductors as Fritz Reiner, Dimitri Mitropoulos, and Georg Solti. As in Saturday Afternoons at the Old Met: The Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1931-1950, the author uses unpublished documents and letters from the Metropolitan Opera Archives to tell behind-the-scenes stories of the players involved.
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Composers on Composers ("Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)" begins on p. 113) » Read Now
by John L. Holmes. 192 pgs.

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This important compilation lends a new perspective to music criticism by gathering the comments of 85 well-known composers concerning the work of their peers. Encompassing all forms of commentary, from caustic attacks to perceptive criticism and praise, the book offers new insights into the...
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This important compilation lends a new perspective to music criticism by gathering the comments of 85 well-known composers concerning the work of their peers. Encompassing all forms of commentary, from caustic attacks to perceptive criticism and praise, the book offers new insights into the development of music and its most important creators by collecting under each composer's name the remarks made about him by other composers.
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Conductors on Composers ("Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)" begins on p. 137) » Read Now
by John L. Holmes. 276 pgs.

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A lively commentary by 123 important conductors of the past and present on the music they perform, this work discloses fascinating insights on much of our classical concert and recorded repertoire. It reveals different approaches of these interpreters of great music and also sometimes surprising...
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A lively commentary by 123 important conductors of the past and present on the music they perform, this work discloses fascinating insights on much of our classical concert and recorded repertoire. It reveals different approaches of these interpreters of great music and also sometimes surprising prejudices and enthusiasms. The material comes from hundreds of sources, mainly conductors' autobiographies and their critical writings, interviews with conductors, and biographical works, all interwoven into a cohesive narrative for each of the 71 composers covered. A companion to the author's Composers on Composers, this volume is similarly organized alphabetically by composer. Brief biographies are given of the conductors, and their remarks on the music can be traced via indexing.
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The World of Great Composers ("Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)" begins on p. 439) » Read Now
by David Ewen. 578 pgs.

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...F. Bonavia 426 Verdi Speaks 436 GIACOMO PUCCINI 1858-1924 439 The Man , Richard...style concerted music from plain-song monotone. To Giacomo Carissimi 1605-74 , who died...
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera ("Puccini, Giacomo" begins on p. 416) » Read Now
by John Warrack, Ewan West. 571 pgs.

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Derived from the full Oxford Dictionary of Opera, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of opera available in paperback. Fully revised for this new edition, with over 3,500 entries, it is designed to be accessible to all those who enjoy opera, whether at the opera-house or at...
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Derived from the full Oxford Dictionary of Opera, this is the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of opera available in paperback. Fully revised for this new edition, with over 3,500 entries, it is designed to be accessible to all those who enjoy opera, whether at the opera-house or at home. Here opera buffs will have at their fingertips opera synopses and first performance details, bibliographies of works about opera, entries on singers (including their debuts and career highlights, with notes on voice type, style, and reputation), definitions and discussions of technical terms and operatic styles, and surveys of the history of opera worldwide. Included also are plot summaries and separate entries for well-know roles, arias, and choruses. The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera provides a huge amount of information and learning packed conveniently in a single volume with helpful cross-references. It will be invaluable to all opera-goers, to those professionally concerned with opera, and to anyone needing reliable information on this fascinating subject.
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Puccini: His Life and Works » Read Now
by Julian Budden. 528 pgs.

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