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Puccini by Julian Budden, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Julian Budden

Current price: $45.50
Puccini by Julian Budden, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Puccini by Julian Budden, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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Puccini by Julian Budden, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Julian Budden

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Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera and author of a monumental three-volume study of Verdi's works, now offers music lovers a major new biography of one of the giants of Italian opera, Giacomo Puccini. Blending astute musical analysis with a colorful account of Puccini's life, here is an illuminating look at some of the most popular operas in the repertoire, including Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. Budden provides an illuminating look at the process of putting anopera together, the cut-and-slash of nineteenth-century Italian opera-the struggle to find the right performers for the debut of La Boheme, Puccini's anxiety about completing Turandot (he in fact died of cancer before he did so), his animosity toward his rival Leoncavallo (whom he called Leonasinoor "lion-ass"). Budden provides an informative analysis of the operas themselves, examining the music act by act. He highlights, among other things, the influence of Wagner on Puccini-alone among his Italian contemporaries, Puccini followed Wagner's example in bringing the motif into the forefrontof his narrative, sometimes voicing the singer's unexpressed thoughts, sometimes sending out a signal to the audience of which the character is unaware. And Budden also paints an intriguing portrait of Puccini the man-talented but modest, a man who had friends from every walk of life: shopkeepers, priests, wealthy landowners, fellow artists. Affable, well mannered, gifted with a broad sense of fun, he rarely failed to charm all who met him. A new volume in the esteemed Master Musicians series, Puccini offers a masterful portrait of this beloved Italian composer. | Puccini by Julian Budden, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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