The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity - Couverture rigide

Wilson, Alexandra

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521856884 ISBN 13 : 9780521856881

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

A 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 that 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Alexandra Wilson is Lecturer in Musicology at Oxford Brookes University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521856884
• ISBN 13: 9780521856881
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible