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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Puccini problem
    sub title: opera, nationalism and modernity
  name:
    name part: Wilson, Alexandra
    name part: 1973-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 321 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The first detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote to and the embodiment of the decadence widely felt to be afflicting late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Italy, a nation which although politically unified remained culturally divided. The book focuses upon two central, related questions which were debated throughout Puccini's career: his status as a national or international composer, and his status as a traditionalist or modernist. In addition, Wilson examines how Puccini's operas became caught up in a wide range of extra-musical controversies concerning such issues as gender and class. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of both the history of opera and of the wider artistic and intellectual life of turn-of-the-century Italy.--Publisher's description.
  table of contents: Inventing an Italian composer -- La bohème : organicism, progress and the press -- Tosca : truth and lies -- A frame without a canvas : Madama Butterfly and the superficial -- Torrefranca versus Puccini -- The Italian composer as internationalist -- A suitable ending?
  note: Alexandra Wilson.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 292-309) and index.
  subject:
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  subject:
    name:
      name part: Puccini, Giacomo
      name part: 1858-1924
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Puccini, Giacomo
      name part: 1858-1924
    topic: Appreciation
  subject:
    topic: Opera
    geographic: Italy
    temporal: 19th century
  subject:
    topic: Opera
    geographic: Italy
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Music
    topic: Social aspects
    geographic: Italy
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Puccini, Giacomo
      name part: 1858-1924
    topic: Critique et interprétation
  subject:
    topic: Opéra
    geographic: Italie
    temporal: 19e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Opéra
    geographic: Italie
    temporal: 20e siècle
  subject:
    topic: Musique
    topic: Aspect social
    geographic: Italie
  classification: ML410.P89 W53 2007
  classification: 782.1092
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      title: Cambridge studies in opera
  identifier: 0521856884 (hbk. : alk. paper)
  identifier: 9780521856881
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    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 061031
    record change date: 20151108070119.0
    record identifier: in00002353081