Giacomo Puccini, Tosca
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Giacomo Puccini, Tosca
（Cambridge opera handbooks）
Cambridge University Press, 1985
- pbk.
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Tosca
Available at 13 libraries
Note
Bibliography: p. 158
"Discography by Malcolm Walker": p. 159-161
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is intended primarily as a guide for the opera goer. It includes a synopsis of the plot, with indications of the themes and motifs used in it, and discusses the style of the opera, Tosca being a typical example of Italian naturalism in operas, verismo. It compares Puccini's libretto with Sardou's play La Tosca, analyses the close-knit structure of the work and examines salient points in the music. It also describes the genesis of the work (quoting wherever appropriate, Puccini's own remarks about it), its first production and early reception. A subsidiary aim of the book is to present the opinions, positive and negative, that have been expressed by various critics about the opera since its first production in 1900. There are contributions from the celebrated singer and producer of Tosca Tito Gobbi, and two other musicologists, Roger Parker and William Ashbrook. Malcolm Walker has provided a discography.
Table of Contents
- General preface
- List of illustrations
- 1. Sardou and his La Tosca
- 2. Naturalism in opera: verismo
- 3. Genesis of Tosca
- 4. Synopsis
- 5. Play and opera: a comparison
- 6. First production and critical history
- 7. Interpretation: some reflections Tito Gobbi
- 8. Style and technique
- 9. Musical and dramatic structure
- 10. Analysis: Act I in perspective Roger Parker
- 11. Tosca in the United States William Ashbrook
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Discography Malcolm Walker
- Index.
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