The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity 普奇尼的音乐: 歌剧、民族主义与现代性 epub 下载 pdf 网盘 2025 mobi 在线 免费

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.

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Note on translations

Introduction

1 Inventing an Italian composer

2 La boheme: organicism, progress and the press

3 Tosca: truth and lies

4 A frame without a canvas: Madama Butterfly and the superficial

5 Torrefranca versus Puccini

6 The Italian composer as internationalist

7 A suitable ending?

Epilogue

Appendix 1: selected newspapers and journals

Appendix 2: personalia

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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As a detailed investigation of the reception and contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson considers how his reputation as a national composer was formed in an age that witnessed the beginnings of the cult of celebrity.