Author: Victorien Sardou
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A translation of La Tosca, the play that inspired the Puccini opera, complete with annotations and critical comments. This work seeks to give a well-rounded picture of Sardou as a playwright who imbued his pieces with a wealth of historical knowledge.
La Tosca
Author: Victorien Sardou
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A translation of La Tosca, the play that inspired the Puccini opera, complete with annotations and critical comments. This work seeks to give a well-rounded picture of Sardou as a playwright who imbued his pieces with a wealth of historical knowledge.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A translation of La Tosca, the play that inspired the Puccini opera, complete with annotations and critical comments. This work seeks to give a well-rounded picture of Sardou as a playwright who imbued his pieces with a wealth of historical knowledge.
Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
Author: Mosco Carner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296618
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A guide for opera goers to Tosca, which includes a synopsis of the plot and discussions on style.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521296618
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
A guide for opera goers to Tosca, which includes a synopsis of the plot and discussions on style.
Madame Don't Care
Author: Victorien Sardou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Theodora, a drama. Transl
Author: Victorien Sardou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Tosca's Rome
Author: Susan Vandiver Nicassio
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226579726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it is based. By far the most "historical" opera in the active repertoire, Tosca is set in a very specific time and place: Rome, from June 17 to 18, 1800. But as Nicassio demonstrates, history in Tosca is distorted by nationalism and by the vehement anticlerical perceptions of papal Rome shared by Sardou, Puccini, and the librettists. To provide the historical background necessary for understanding Tosca, Nicassio takes a detailed look at Rome in 1800 as each of Tosca's main characters would have seen it—the painter Cavaradossi, the singer Tosca, and the policeman Scarpia. Finally, she provides a scene-by-scene musical and dramatic analysis of the opera. "[Nicassio] must be the only living historian who can boast that she once sang the role of Tosca. Her deep knowledge of Puccini's score is only to be expected, but her understanding of daily and political life in Rome at the close of the 18th century is an unanticipated pleasure. She has steeped herself in the period and its prevailing culture-literary, artistic, and musical-and has come up with an unusual, and unusually entertaining, history."—Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph "In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio . . . orchestrates a wealth of detail without losing view of the opera and its pleasures. . . . Nicassio aims for opera fans and for historians: she may well enthrall both."—Publishers Weekly "This is the book that ranks highest in my estimation as the most in-depth, and yet highly entertaining, journey into the story of the making of Tosca."—Catherine Malfitano "Nicassio's prose . . . is lively and approachable. There is plenty here to intrigue everyone-seasoned opera lovers, musical novices, history buffs, and Italophiles."—Library Journal
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226579726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, Tosca is one of the most popular operas ever written. In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it is based. By far the most "historical" opera in the active repertoire, Tosca is set in a very specific time and place: Rome, from June 17 to 18, 1800. But as Nicassio demonstrates, history in Tosca is distorted by nationalism and by the vehement anticlerical perceptions of papal Rome shared by Sardou, Puccini, and the librettists. To provide the historical background necessary for understanding Tosca, Nicassio takes a detailed look at Rome in 1800 as each of Tosca's main characters would have seen it—the painter Cavaradossi, the singer Tosca, and the policeman Scarpia. Finally, she provides a scene-by-scene musical and dramatic analysis of the opera. "[Nicassio] must be the only living historian who can boast that she once sang the role of Tosca. Her deep knowledge of Puccini's score is only to be expected, but her understanding of daily and political life in Rome at the close of the 18th century is an unanticipated pleasure. She has steeped herself in the period and its prevailing culture-literary, artistic, and musical-and has come up with an unusual, and unusually entertaining, history."—Paul Bailey, Daily Telegraph "In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio . . . orchestrates a wealth of detail without losing view of the opera and its pleasures. . . . Nicassio aims for opera fans and for historians: she may well enthrall both."—Publishers Weekly "This is the book that ranks highest in my estimation as the most in-depth, and yet highly entertaining, journey into the story of the making of Tosca."—Catherine Malfitano "Nicassio's prose . . . is lively and approachable. There is plenty here to intrigue everyone-seasoned opera lovers, musical novices, history buffs, and Italophiles."—Library Journal
The Merveilleuses
Author: Hugo Felix
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Operas
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Madame Sans-Gêne
Author: Victorien Sardou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
Sardou and the Sardou Plays
Author: Jerome Alfred Hart
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Fedora: a drama
Author: Victorien Sardou
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Dramatic Technique
Author: George Pierce Baker
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dramatic Technique" by George Pierce Baker. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Dramatic Technique" by George Pierce Baker. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.