Puccini's La Bohème by Wilson, Alexandra
Puccini's La Bohème by Wilson, Alexandra

Puccini's La Bohème

Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how...
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Author: Alexandra Wilson
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Puccini's La Bohème by Wilson, Alexandra

Puccini's La Bohème

$78.85
Puccini's La Bohème by Wilson, Alexandra

Puccini's La Bohème

$78.85
Author: Alexandra Wilson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème is one of the most frequently performed operas in the world. But how did it come to be so adored? In this book, author Alexandra Wilson traces La Bohème's rise to fame and demonstrates that its success grew steadily through stage performances, recordings, filmed versions and the endorsements of star singers. More recently, popular songs, film soundtracks and musicals that draw on the opera's music and themes added further to its immense cultural impact.

This cultural history offers a fresh reading of a familiar work. Wilson argues that La Bohème's approach to realism and its flouting of conventions of the Italian operatic tradition made it strikingly modern for the 1890s. She explores how Puccini and his librettists engaged with gender, urban poverty and nostalgia--themes that grew out of the work's own time and continue to resonate with audiences more than 120 years later. Her analysis of the opera's depiction of Paris reveals that La Bohème was not only influenced by the romantic mythologies surrounding the city to this day but also helped shape them. Wilson's consideration of how directors have reinvented this opera for a new age completes this fascinating history of La Bohème, making it essential reading for anyone interested in this opera and the works it inspired.

Author: Alexandra Wilson
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 12/04/2020
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780190637897

About the Author
Alexandra Wilson is Professor of Music and Cultural History at Oxford Brookes University. Her research focuses on opera and operatic culture from the nineteenth century to the present. Her publications include the award-winning The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity and a monograph on Opera in the Jazz Age: Cultural Politics in 1920s Britain (OUP, 2019), and she regularly works with the UK's leading opera companies.
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