Giacomo Puccini and his world / edited by Arman Schwartz and Emanuele Senici.

Contributor Schwartz, Arman.

Imprint:Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2016.

Descriptionviii, 350 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Note:Introduction: Puccini, his world, and ours / Emanuele Senici -- PART I : ESSAYS. Realism and skepticism in Puccini's early operas / Arman Schwartz ; Madama Butterfly between east and west / Arthur Groos ; Laggiu nel Soledad: indexing and archiving the operatic west / Ellen Lockhart ; The swallow and the lark: La rondine and Viennese operetta / Micaela Baranello ; Puccini's things: materials and media in Il trittico / Alessandra Campana and Christopher Morris ; Puccini, fascism, and the case of Turandot / Ben Earle ; Music, language, and meaning in opera: Puccini and his contemporaries / Leon Botstein -- PART II : DOCUMENTS. Puccini on his interpreters / introduction, translation, and commentary by Emanuele Senici ; The Verismo debate / introduction, translation, and commentary by Arman Schwartz ; Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and modern-realistic opera / by Hans Merian ; introduction by Walter Frisch, translation and notes by Elaine Fitz Gibbon ; Albert Carre's staging manual for Madama Butterfly (1906) / introduction by Michele Girardi, translation by Delia Casadei; staging manual translation by Steven Huebner ; Selections from Fausto Torrefranca's Giacomo Puccini and international opera / introduction by Alexandra Wilson, translation by Delia Casadei.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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