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Sources, Linda B. Fairtile
Sources, Linda B. Fairtile
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Sources of instrumental music and of non-dramatic vocal music are generally understood to include preliminary sketches and drafts, manuscript and printed scores, performing parts, and, in the latter case, materials related to the choice or development of the vocal text. Letters, diaries, administrative papers, and even journalistic reviews can also be considered sources. Opera, as a collaborative fusion of music and drama, expands this list to include such materials as set and costume designs, staging manuals, lighting plots, and prop lists. Technology has further augmented the inventory, first with still photographs, and later with audio and video recordings. This chapter …
American Institute For Verdi Studies, Linda B. Fairtile
American Institute For Verdi Studies, Linda B. Fairtile
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The AIVS was founded in 1976, in response to a tide of scholarly interest in Verdi. Its first director, Martin Chusid, assembled an archive of materials at New York University's Elmer Holmes Bobst Library.
Iago, Linda B. Fairtile
Iago, Linda B. Fairtile
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An alternate title for Otello, used intermittently throughout much of its composition, possibly to avoid comparison to Rossini's opera of the same name.
Unni E I Romani, Gli, Linda B. Fairtile
Unni E I Romani, Gli, Linda B. Fairtile
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A censored version of Attila first performed at Palermo's Teatro Carolino in 1854.
Otello, Linda B. Fairtile
Otello, Linda B. Fairtile
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Verdi's penultimate opera represents his first new work for the stage after a nearly sixteen-year hiatus. As battles raged over the future of Italian opera-whether it should remain rooted in song or follow foreign trends that assign a greater role to the orchestra-Giulio Ricordi and Boito patiently lured Verdi back into the fray. Boito's libretto, an ingenious and at times eccentric adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, inspired the composer to a highly personal fusion of tradition and innovation. At its premiere Otello was widely hailed as a masterpiece, an emphatic and fundamentally Italian answer to the debate over music and …
Revising Cio-Cio-San, Linda B. Fairtile
Revising Cio-Cio-San, Linda B. Fairtile
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Some of the mast extensive and significant textual changes in all of Puccini's operas appear in the published revisions of Madama Butterfly. Many of these verbal modifications, together with cuts and additions to the score, influence the dramatic depiction of the protagonists. Changes to Pinkerton's character soften an insensitive and even offensive figure who, after all, needs to be convincing as the object of Butterfly's love. For Cio-Cio-San, three rounds of revision mean a gradual loss of complexity on any fronts, bringing an exotic, mercurial heroine closer to operatic convention. The Butterfly that we know today has a more …
Toscanini And The Myth Of Textual Fidelity, Linda B. Fairtile
Toscanini And The Myth Of Textual Fidelity, Linda B. Fairtile
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Changes in the public perception of performing artists make for fascinating study. There once was a time when the Three Tenors were considered mere mortals. And there was a time when a conductor, Arturo Toscanini, was considered the living embodiment of the composers whose music he performed. Largely through the efforts of the press and the National Broadcasting Company, Toscanini came to be known as the only musician with the integrity and modesty to perform a composition exactly as it was notated in the musical score. Thanks to the existence of recorded performances, as well as the reminiscences of some …
The Works Of Giuseppe Verdi: A Consideration Of Its Impact, Linda B. Fairtile
The Works Of Giuseppe Verdi: A Consideration Of Its Impact, Linda B. Fairtile
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The rationale for preparing a critical edition of Verdi's works is by now well known. The unavailability of printed orchestral scores for some operas, disagreements among performing materials for others, and a proliferation of new scholarship illuminating the complex Verdian source situation all point to the need for a scholarly edition of the complete works of this extremely popular composer. In 1983 the University of Chicago Press and Casa Ricordi began jointly producing scores and other performing materials in a series entitled «The Works of Giuseppe Verdi» («WGV»). Rigoletto was the first volume to appear, followed by Ernani, Nabucco, …
Bibliografia Degli Scritti Su Giacomo Puccini: Aggiornamenti 1997-99, Linda B. Fairtile
Bibliografia Degli Scritti Su Giacomo Puccini: Aggiornamenti 1997-99, Linda B. Fairtile
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Bibliography of studies about Puccini (1997-1999).
A Fragment From Act Ii Of Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, Linda B. Fairtile
A Fragment From Act Ii Of Giacomo Puccini's La Boheme, Linda B. Fairtile
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This manuscript transmits ten measures from the so-called "Sextet" in the opera's second act, corresponding to pages 207 (measure 2) through 210 (measure 1) of the current published orchestral score. The passage forms part of the middle section of a tripartite structure that begins and ends with the renowned "Musetta's Waltz" ("Quando m'en vo"). At this point in the plot, the inhabitants of Paris's Latin Quarter, gathering to celebrate Christmas Eve at the Cafe Momus, witness the spectacle of Musetta's successful attempt to win back her lover. The section as a whole presented a problem for Puccini's librettists, who had …
The Violin Director And Verdi's Middle-Period Operas, Linda B. Fairtile
The Violin Director And Verdi's Middle-Period Operas, Linda B. Fairtile
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The operas of Verdi provide an excellent laboratory for studying the transition from violin director to conductor. By the mid 1860s, some two dozen of his works had been presented hundreds of times throughout Italy. Information on many of these performances is currently available in periodicals, theater histories, and other chronicles. In addition, the American Institute for Verdi Studies (AIVS) has microfilmed over sixty documents that offer a unique perspective on the role of the violin directors, namely, the parts from which they performed. These parts are enlightening both for what they contain and what they omit, suggesting in greater …