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La Boheme by Giacomo Puccini
$29.95 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides in Association with the English National Opera (ENO)
Puccini's masterpiece "La boheme" is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi's influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto ...Show more
La Bohème by Gary Khan (Volume Editor); Giacomo Puccini
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Puccini 's La boh me is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera 's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi 's influence on the composition. Nicholas John discusses the tortuous evolution of the libretto over the co ...Show more
Madama Butterfly (Madam Butterfly) by Giacomo Puccini; Nicholas John (Volume Editor); R. H. Helkin (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
Madama Butterfly is one of the most popular operas of all time, despite its disastrous premiere, after which it was immediately withdrawn and revised. This guide explores how and why the libretto was softened to suit the tastes of European opera-goers, and the different variants are set out, side by sid ...Show more
TOSCA by PUCCINI GIACOMO
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overture Opera Guides
Here is one of Puccini's greatest hits, in an affordable version for complete orchestra. This story of love, art and death in Rome during the Napoleonic wars is today considered a classic for such arias as "Vissi d'arte" (I lived for art; I lived for love), but at its premiere in 1900 it was denounced a ...Show more
Turandot by Giacomo Puccini; Nicholas John (Volume Editor); William Weaver (Translator)
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Overtures Ser.
"A Turandot filtered through a modern brain", wrote Puccini, describing his plans to rework the eighteenth-century fable by Carlo Gozzi. According to Mosco Carner, Puccini's last and supreme work is an advanced score which, with an orchestration that reflects contemporaries such as Richard Strauss and S ...Show more
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