SKU: HL.49012027

ISBN 9783254080134. 4.75x7.5x0.636 inches. Italian - German.

Puccini had hardly finished his work on 'Tosca' in 1900 and seen its first performances when a new potential opera subject attracted his attention during a theatre visit in London: the play staged was 'Madame Butterfly. Tragedy of a Japanese Woman'. At the beginning of 1904, the musical setting of this subject matter was completed - the work was a failure at the world premiere. Thereupon, Puccini revised it into a three-act version, and it was in this form that the opera about the unhappy Japanese woman began its triumphant progress.Apart from the Italian libretto and the common German translation, this edition contains introductory commentaries of Kurt Pahlen who also adds information on the compositional structure and context to the musical as well as external and internal dramatic action of the opera. A short synopsis and a brief outline of the genesis bring the work into relation with the composer's entire oeuvre and life, thus offering a comprehensive, richly illustrated introduction.

SKU: HL.49041882

ISBN 9783795780401. Italian - German.

Pietro Mascagnis Cavalleria rusticana ist einer der ersten Vertreter des sogenannten verismo in der Oper. Diese Stilrichtung des spaten 19. Jahrhunderts hatte sich zum Ziel gesetzt, ein getreues Spiegelbild der rauhen Wirklichkeit zu geben. Besonders Komponisten aus Italien traten mit veristischen Opern hervor; genannt seien Giacomo Puccini (La Boheme, Madame Butterfly u.a.) und Ruggero Leoncavallo (Der Bajazzo). In Cavalleria rusticana zeigt sich Mascagni auf einer kompositorischen Hohe, die er zeitlebens nicht mehr erreicht hat.Dieses Buch enthalt neben dem italienischen Textbuch und der gebrauchlichen deutschen Ubersetzung einfuhrende Kommentare von Kurt Pahlen. Er begleitet das musikalische und aussere wie innere dramatische Geschehen der Oper mit Hinweisen zu kompositorischer Struktur und Sinnzusammenhang. Eine kurze Inhaltsangabe und ein Abriss der Entstehungsgeschichte stellen das Werk in einen Zusammenhang mit dem Gesamtschaffen des Komponisten und seiner Biographie und bieten eine umfassende, reich illustrierte Einfuhrung.

SKU: CA.2740309

ISBN 9790007201944. Language: Latin.

Puccini's first known sacred work was composed during his school days at the Istituto Pacini in Lucca. It was first performed there in 1877. The text was a hymn to the Patron Saint of Lucca which was probably written by the composer himself. The work was so popular that by 1880 it had received three further performances, though it was also inserted in the Messa a 4 voci, after the Credo. Thereafter it disappeared from the music world and was only first rediscovered in the 1990s. Since, with the exception of the lack of a solo tenor in the piece, it is identical with this one in the Messa, for this reason it would seem only natural to perform these two works together. Score and parts available separately - see item CA.2740300.

SKU: LM.27063

ISBN 9790230970631.

GOUNOD : Valse (Faust) - MOZART : Reine de la nuit (Flute enchantee) - OFFENBACH : Barcarolle (Contes d'Hoffmann) - PUCCINI : Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore (Tosca) - RIMSKI-KORSAKOV : Le Vol du bourdon (Conte du Tsar Saltan) - VERDI : Vedi, le fosche... (Trouvere).

SKU: HL.44011500

UPC: 884088893880.

SKU: CA.2740300

ISBN 9790007058104. Language: Latin.

Puccini's first known sacred work was composed during his school days at the Istituto Pacini in Lucca. It was first performed there in 1877. The text was a hymn to the Patron Saint of Lucca which was probably written by the composer himself. The work was so popular that by 1880 it had received three further performances, though it was also inserted in the Messa a 4 voci, after the Credo. Thereafter it disappeared from the music world and was only first rediscovered in the 1990s. Since, with the exception of the lack of a solo tenor in the piece, it is identical with this one in the Messa, for this reason it would seem only natural to perform these two works together.

SKU: TM.01499SC

SKU: TM.03105SET