{"product_id":"giacomo-puccini-and-his-world-9780691172866","title":"Giacomo Puccini and His World","description":"\u003cp\u003eGiacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In \u003ci\u003eGiacomo Puccini and His World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003eManon Lescaut\u003c\/i\u003e (1893) to \u003ci\u003eTurandot\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), this volume aims to move beyond clichés of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to resituate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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 A rich array of primary source material, including previously unpublished letters and documents, provides vital information on Puccini's interactions with singers, conductors, and stage directors, and on the early reception of the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 \u003ci\u003eGiacomo Puccini and International Opera\u003c\/i\u003e, perhaps the most vicious diatribe ever directed against the composer, appear here in English for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArman Schwartz\u003c\/b\u003e is a Birmingham Fellow in Music at the University of Birmingham and a member of the editorial board of \u003ci\u003eOpera Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eEmanuele Senici\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of music history at the University of Rome la Sapienza and a former editor of the \u003ci\u003eCambridge Opera Journal\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327243292946,"sku":"9780691172866","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_33cd59cc-ad1a-48e6-8538-94db31cf0439.jpg?v=1727711709","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/giacomo-puccini-and-his-world-9780691172866","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}