1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0008685

Autore

Falcone, Pietro

Titolo

1: Urbanistica ed edilizia / Pietro Falcone, Eugenio Mele

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Torino : Utet, c2000

ISBN

88-02-05648-x

Descrizione fisica

XXVII, 992 p. ; 15 cm.

Altri autori (Persone)

Mele, Eugenio

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910383859503321

Autore

Ashbrook William

Titolo

Puccini's Turandot : The End of the Great Tradition / / William Ashbrook, Harold Powers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2014]

©1991

ISBN

0-691-09137-4

1-4008-6667-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 p.)

Collana

Princeton Studies in Opera ; ; 30

Disciplina

782.1

Soggetti

MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Opera

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION. The Contexts -- CHAPTER 1. The Opera -- CHAPTER 2. The Sources -- CHAPTER 3. The Genesis -- CHAPTER 4. The Four Colors -- CHAPTER 5. The Two Duets -- CHAPTER 6. Turandot Staged -- Appendix -- Notes -- References -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned music scholars demonstrate that this work, despite the modern climate in which it was written, was a fitting finale for the centuries-old Great Tradition of Italian opera. Here they provide concrete instances of how a listener might encounter the dramatic and musical structures of Turandot in light of the Italian melodramma, and firmly establish Puccini's last work within the tradition of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, and Verdi. In a summary of the sounds, sights, and symbolism of Turandot, the authors touch on earlier treatments of the subject, outline the conception, birth, and reception of the work, and analyze its coordinated dramatic and musical design. Showing how the evolution of the libretto documents Puccini's reversion to large musical forms typical of the Great Tradition in the late nineteenth century, they give particular attention to his use of contrasting Romantic, modernist, and two kinds of orientalist coloration in the general musical structure. They suggest that Puccini's inability to complete the opera resulted mainly from inadequate dramatic buildup for Turandot's last-minute change of heart combined with an overly successful treatment of the secondary character.