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Giacomo Puccini: Tosca

Door Mosco Carner

Categorie
Concert, Orkest & Opera
Boeknummer
#413812-XX20
Titel
Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
Auteur
Carner, Mosco
Boektype
Paperback
Uitgeverij
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave
1985
ISBN10
0521296617
ISBN13
9780521296618
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Paperback, some illustrations in b/w, musical charts, 8vo.
Samenvatting
This book is intended primarily as a guide for the opera goer. It includes a synopsis of the plot, with indications of the themes and motifs used in it, and discusses the style of the opera, Tosca being a typical example of Italian naturalism in operas, verismo. It compares Puccini's libretto with Sardou's play La Tosca, analyses the close-knit structure of the work and examines salient points in the music. It also describes the genesis of the work (quoting wherever appropriate, Puccini's own remarks about it), its first production and early reception. A subsidiary aim of the book is to present the opinions, positive and negative, that have been expressed by various critics about the opera since its first production in 1900. There are contributions from the celebrated singer and producer o... (Lees verder)f Tosca Tito Gobbi, and two other musicologists, Roger Parker and William Ashbrook. Malcolm Walker has provided a discography.
Pagina's
165
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 8,00

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