Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective - Tapa blanda

Nicassio, Susan Vandiver

 
9780226579726: Tosca's Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective
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ISBN 10: 0226579727 ISBN 13: 9780226579726
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2002

Sinopsis

A timeless tale of love, lust, and politics, "Tosca" is one of the most popular operas ever written. In "Tosca's Rome," Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's opera and the play by Victorien Sardou on which it is based. By far the most "historical" opera in the active repertoire, " Tosca" is set in a very specific time and place: Rome, from June 17 to 18, 1800. But as Nicassio demonstrates, history in "Tosca" is distorted by nationalism and by the vehement anticlerical perceptions of papal Rome shared by Sardou, Puccini, and the librettists. To provide the historical background necessary for understanding "Tosca," Nicassio takes a detailed look at Rome in 1800 as each of "Tosca"'s main characters would have seen it - the painter Cavaradossi, the singer Tosca, and the policeman Scarpia. Finally, she provides a scene-by-scene musical and dramatic analysis of the opera.

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Susan Vandiver Nicassio is an associate professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

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In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera, Tosca-a timeless tale of love, lust, and politics. For this paperback edition, Nicassio has added an appendix analyzing recently discovered working papers for the libretto.

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In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the surprising historical realities that lie behind Giacomo Puccini's immortal opera, Tosca-a timeless tale of love, lust, and politics. For this paperback edition, Nicassio has added an appendix analyzing recently discovered working papers for the libretto.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226579727
ISBN 13 
9780226579726
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
366
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9780226579719: "Tosca's" Rome: The Play and the Opera in Historical Perspective

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ISBN 10:  0226579719 ISBN 13:  9780226579719
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 2000
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