Author: Giacomo Puccini
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486246078
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Next to Verdi's Ada, Giacomo Puccini's La Bohme is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of Ada, La Bohme, Carmen, and Don Giovanni ? the four operas most often performed ? constitute approximately 75 percent of the yearly schedule of operas throughout the world. This volume contains everything the opera goer needs to derive full satisfaction from La Bohme except the musical score itself. Most important, it provides the complete text of the Italian libretto, just as it is actually sung; that is, where a singer repeats a phrase several times, each of the repetitions is given here. And facing the Italian text is a completely new translation of the libretto into modern, idiomatic English. In addition to the libretto and English translation, this edition provides a careful, concise summary of the plot of La Bohme and a complete list of the opera's characters. There is also a brief, highly informative introduction by the translator that traces Puccini's masterpiece back to its source in Henry Murger's autobiographical novel La Vie Bohme, illuminating the early history of the opera and its later development. Opera lovers can use this book with their own recordings of the opera, read it before attending a performance, or can easily take it along to the performance itself. Those who have regretted the lack of a good, authentic, readable edition of the Italian libretto of La Bohme, and have complained of the stodginess of existing English translations, will recognize in this book a first-rate aid to the understanding of one of Puccini's most celebrated operas.
Puccini's La Boheme (the Dover Opera Libretto Series)
Author: Giacomo Puccini
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486246078
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Next to Verdi's Ada, Giacomo Puccini's La Bohme is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of Ada, La Bohme, Carmen, and Don Giovanni ? the four operas most often performed ? constitute approximately 75 percent of the yearly schedule of operas throughout the world. This volume contains everything the opera goer needs to derive full satisfaction from La Bohme except the musical score itself. Most important, it provides the complete text of the Italian libretto, just as it is actually sung; that is, where a singer repeats a phrase several times, each of the repetitions is given here. And facing the Italian text is a completely new translation of the libretto into modern, idiomatic English. In addition to the libretto and English translation, this edition provides a careful, concise summary of the plot of La Bohme and a complete list of the opera's characters. There is also a brief, highly informative introduction by the translator that traces Puccini's masterpiece back to its source in Henry Murger's autobiographical novel La Vie Bohme, illuminating the early history of the opera and its later development. Opera lovers can use this book with their own recordings of the opera, read it before attending a performance, or can easily take it along to the performance itself. Those who have regretted the lack of a good, authentic, readable edition of the Italian libretto of La Bohme, and have complained of the stodginess of existing English translations, will recognize in this book a first-rate aid to the understanding of one of Puccini's most celebrated operas.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486246078
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Next to Verdi's Ada, Giacomo Puccini's La Bohme is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of Ada, La Bohme, Carmen, and Don Giovanni ? the four operas most often performed ? constitute approximately 75 percent of the yearly schedule of operas throughout the world. This volume contains everything the opera goer needs to derive full satisfaction from La Bohme except the musical score itself. Most important, it provides the complete text of the Italian libretto, just as it is actually sung; that is, where a singer repeats a phrase several times, each of the repetitions is given here. And facing the Italian text is a completely new translation of the libretto into modern, idiomatic English. In addition to the libretto and English translation, this edition provides a careful, concise summary of the plot of La Bohme and a complete list of the opera's characters. There is also a brief, highly informative introduction by the translator that traces Puccini's masterpiece back to its source in Henry Murger's autobiographical novel La Vie Bohme, illuminating the early history of the opera and its later development. Opera lovers can use this book with their own recordings of the opera, read it before attending a performance, or can easily take it along to the performance itself. Those who have regretted the lack of a good, authentic, readable edition of the Italian libretto of La Bohme, and have complained of the stodginess of existing English translations, will recognize in this book a first-rate aid to the understanding of one of Puccini's most celebrated operas.
Italian Opera
Author: David R. B. Kimbell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466431
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521466431
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
David Kimbell traces the history of Italian opera from the Renaissance to the early twentieth century.
Italian Opera and English Translation in 20th-century America
Author: Jennifer K. Wesco
Publisher:
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Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Opera
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
Verdi's Opera Rigoletto
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Italian Opera in English
Author: John Graziano
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135552371
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
First Published in 1994. This is volume 3 of a 16-volume series providing comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theatre in the United States of America. The work in this volume represents Italian opera in English though the works have British origins and strong French influences. This volume discusses various operatic interpretations of the Cinderella story, from its French operatic debut in 1810 to the most famous operas from Perrault and Rossini.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135552371
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
First Published in 1994. This is volume 3 of a 16-volume series providing comprehensive set of works from a full century of musical theatre in the United States of America. The work in this volume represents Italian opera in English though the works have British origins and strong French influences. This volume discusses various operatic interpretations of the Cinderella story, from its French operatic debut in 1810 to the most famous operas from Perrault and Rossini.
The Italian Opera in English
Author: Henry Barton Baker
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
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... Opera, Opera
Author: William Saroyan
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Donizetti's Opera Don Pasquale
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Category : Ernesto
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
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Category : Ernesto
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Ernani
Author: Giuseppe Verdi
Publisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Publisher:
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Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Italian Opera in English
Author: Gioacchino Rossini
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815313724
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780815313724
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.