Puccini the Thinker : The Composer's Intellectual and Dramatic Development
by Digaetani, John LouisEdition: 2nd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-05-01
Publisher(s): Peter Lang Pub Inc
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Summary
Puccini the Thinker traces Puccini's development as an opera composer and thinker, focusing on the composer's ideas as they appear in his operas. This book, written for the operagoer and the admirer of Puccini's operas in addition to the musicologist, has chapters on all of Puccini's operas and divides them into three general categories: myth and vision; God, religion, and the Roman Catholic Church; and economics, politics, and society. Within these three subdivisions, this book explores the growth of Puccini's thought, dramatic skills, and ideas. Puccini the Thinker also includes a short biography of the composer, descriptions of notable productions of his operas, and discussions of major Puccinian singers and conductors.
Author Biography
John Louis DiGaetani is Professor of English at Hofstra University on Long Island, New York.
Table of Contents
| First Productions of the Operas | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Life | p. 9 |
| A Short Life of Puccini | p. 11 |
| Myth and Vision | p. 33 |
| Le Villi, Edgar--Juvenilia and Myth | p. 35 |
| The Comedy of La Fanciulla del West | p. 45 |
| Turandot--The Mythic Trinity | p. 55 |
| God, Religion, and the Roman Catholic Church | p. 67 |
| Manon Lescaut--The Foreshadowed End | p. 69 |
| Tosca--The Necessity of Agnosticism | p. 81 |
| Suor Angelica--Power and Death | p. 93 |
| Economics, Politics, and Society | p. 101 |
| La Boheme--A Proletarian Tragi-Comedy | p. 103 |
| The American Presence in Madama Butterfly | p. 115 |
| La Rondine--Genre Tensions and Economic Realities | p. 127 |
| Il Tabarro--Puccini's Social Manifesto | p. 139 |
| Gianni Schicchi--Puccini's Social Synthesis | p. 151 |
| Puccini in Performance | p. 165 |
| Puccini on Stage: Productions and Singers | p. 167 |
| Puccini and America | p. 185 |
| Conclusion | p. 191 |
| Bibliography | p. 207 |
| Discography | p. 213 |
| Videography | p. 215 |
| Illustrations | p. 217 |
| Index | p. 225 |
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