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Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of The Girl of the Golden West.(Book review)
Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of The Girl of the Golden West. By Annie J. Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. [xv, 241 p. ISBN 0226703894. $35.] Music examples, bibliography, discography, filmography, illustrations, index.
Annie Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis open their monograph Puccini and the Girl: History and Reception of The Girl of the Golden West by tracing their paths to their topic: in the early 1960s, Davis's father, journalist Marvin Gray purchased a set of twenty-nine letters from Puccini to Carlo Zangarini, La fanciulla del West's librettist, written during the opera's composition. Gray never ...
- Giacomo Puccini's 'La fanciulla del West': Eine neue Opernkonzeption im (Euvre...
- Magazine article from: Music & Letters Greenwald, Helen M. November 1, 1998 700+ words
...Scarlett O'Hara, 'The Girl' replies, 'Ahead - Yes...Belasco's 1905 play The Girl of the Golden West became...horse opera', Puccini's La fanciulla del West (1910). By the time Puccini saw The Girl in 1905 in New York, he had...
- Puccini: La Fanciulla del West.(Torre del Lago, Italy)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Plotkin, Fred December 9, 1995 700+ words
...del Lago offered three of the composer's works, including La Fanciulla del West (July 29), with Barbara Daniels as an authoritative...portrayal. Instead, he seemed genuinely attracted to this unusual girl who, at the end of Act I, seduced him as much as he seduced...
- Seattle.(North America)(La Fanciulla del West)(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Hulcoop, John F. August 1, 2004 700+ words
Seattle Opera's La Fanciulla del West (seen May 22) was served, like the Polka Saloon's whisky...a no-nonsense production: a love story played out against what Girl of the Golden West playwright David Belasco called "a dark and vast...
- Make do and mend.('Otello', 'La fanciulla del West')(Opera review)
- Magazine article from: Spectator Tanner, Michael September 27, 2008 700+ words
...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Otello Welsh National Opera, Cardiff La fanciulla del West Royal Opera House Otello, for me the most perfect...has given special status to its production of Puccini's La fanciulla del West, reviving it for the eighth time since its debut...
- La fanciulla del West: Andrea Gruber (Minnie), Richard Margison (Ramerrez,...
- Magazine article from: Opera Canada Jordan, Robert September 22, 2004 700+ words
Puccini's La fanciulla del West is a remarkably successful opera--even the amusing "Whiskey per tutti!" interjections and lack of overtly memorable...
- La Fanciulla del West doesn't reach the stage very often, for a number of...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Kellow, Brian October 1, 2004 700+ words
La Fanciulla del West doesn't reach the stage very often, for a number of reasons. Chief among them is the expense--the opera calls for...
- Puccini: La Fanciulla del West. (Sarasota, Florida)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Smith, Tim July 1, 1993 700+ words
La Fanciulla del West entered the company's repertory this season. The production, with Virginia Opera's attractive, atmospheric sets...
- Puccini: La Fanciulla del West. (Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, New...
- Magazine article from: Opera News Schmidgall, Gary May 1, 1993 700+ words
...dispatched the Queen's arias handily, while Gottfried Hornik failed to lend Papageno consistent comic invention. Puccini's La Fanciulla del West score - and the Met's ultra-realistic Del Monaco-Scott production - are packed with felicitous detail. The...
- Puccini: La Fanciulla del West.(Opera Review)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Siff, Ira November 1, 2004 700+ words
PUCCINI: La Fanciulla del West [] Zampieri, Verri; Domingo, Bertocchi, Pons, Salvadori, Spagnoli, Chingari, Roni, Giombi; Orchestra and Chorus...
- Puccini: La Fanciulla del West.(Eccles Theatre, Logan, Utah)
- Magazine article from: Opera News Van Sant, J.A. December 28, 1996 700+ words
...in repertory at the beautiful 1.100-seat rococo Eccles Theatre. Most interesting was a new production of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West (seen July 27). The company's founder and director. tenor Michael Ballam, had special interest in the opera...
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