1st Edition
Puccini’s La fanciulla del West and American Musical Identity
By Kathryn Fenton
Copyright 2019
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
220 Pages
by
Routledge
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On 10 December 1910, Giacomo Puccini’s seventh opera, La fanciulla del West , had its premiere before a sold-out audience at New York City’s Metropolitan Opera House. The performance was the Metropolitan Opera Company’s first world premiere by any composer. By all accounts, the premiere was an unambiguous success and the event itself recognized as a major moment in New York cultural history. The... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Arrivals 3. Puccini and the Frontier Melodrama 4. Music "Of the Soil," or, How to Sound American 5. Departures 6. Conclusions
Biography
Kathryn M. Fenton is Assistant Professor of Musicology at Middle Tennessee State University and specializes in research on music and culture of the Long Nineteenth Century. Her current projects focus on the intersection of Italian and American music and culture during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.
