ISBN: 9780226579719

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 realiti… Mehr…

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. " Nicassio] must be the only living historian who can boast that she once sang the role of Tosca. Her deep knowledge of Puccini's score is only to be expected, but her understanding of daily and political life in Rome at the close of the 18th century is an unanticipated pleasure. She has steeped herself in the period and its prevailing culture-literary, artistic, and musical-and has come up with an unusual, and unusually entertaining, history."--Paul Bailey, "Daily Telegraph" "In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio . . . orchestrates a wealth of detail without losing view of the opera and its pleasures. . . . Nicassio aims for opera fans and for historians: she may well enthrall both."--"Publishers Weekly" "This is the book that ranks highest in my estimation as the most in-depth, and yet highly entertaining, journey into the story of the making of Tosca."--Catherine Malfitano "Nicassio's prose . . . is lively and approachable. There is plenty here to intrigue everyone-seasoned opera lovers, musical novices, history buffs, and Italophiles."--"Library Journal" Media > Book, [PU: University of Chicago Press]<

ISBN: 9780226579719

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 realiti… Mehr…

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. " Nicassio] must be the only living historian who can boast that she once sang the role of Tosca. Her deep knowledge of Puccini's score is only to be expected, but her understanding of daily and political life in Rome at the close of the 18th century is an unanticipated pleasure. She has steeped herself in the period and its prevailing culture-literary, artistic, and musical-and has come up with an unusual, and unusually entertaining, history."--Paul Bailey, "Daily Telegraph" "In Tosca's Rome, Susan Vandiver Nicassio . . . orchestrates a wealth of detail without losing view of the opera and its pleasures. . . . Nicassio aims for opera fans and for historians: she may well enthrall both."--"Publishers Weekly" "This is the book that ranks highest in my estimation as the most in-depth, and yet highly entertaining, journey into the story of the making of Tosca."--Catherine Malfitano "Nicassio's prose . . . is lively and approachable. There is plenty here to intrigue everyone-seasoned opera lovers, musical novices, history buffs, and Italophiles."--"Library Journal" Media > Book, [PU: University of Chicago Press]<

1999, ISBN: 0226579719

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[PU: University of Chicago Press, Chicago], ISBN: 0-226-57971-9 JPG; #2#., Jacket, 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 335 pages. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Red en… Mehr…

[PU: University of Chicago Press, Chicago], ISBN: 0-226-57971-9 JPG; #2#., Jacket, 1st Printing. Hardbound 8vo (9.25 inches tall) 335 pages. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Red endpapers. Description: The jacket art shows a detail from Fanciful View of the Castel Sant' Angelo, Rome by Francesco Guardi. 49 figure illustrations plus musical notations. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Susan Vandiver Nicassio explores the historical realties 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 just before midday on June 17, 1800 to a few minutes after dawn on the following day. Any opera lover lucky enough to go to Rome can literally follow in the footsteps of Tosca, from the basilica of Sant' Andrea della Valle, to the Farnese Palace, to the fortress of Sant' Angelo. But as Nicassio demonstrates, history in Tosca is distorted by nationalism and by the vehement anticlerical perception of papal Rome shared by Sardou, Puccini, and the librettists. This begins by exploring the worlds in which the play and the opera were created. She then gives us portraits of Rome in 1800 as each of Tosca's three main characters would have seen it. Finally, she provides a scene by scene musical and dramatic analysis of the opera.'' BINDING/CONDITION: red binding with cloth at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket. ISBN: 0-226-57971-9<

2000, ISBN: 9780226579719

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1999, ISBN: 9780226579719

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.: Univ of Chicago Pr, 1999. 335pp. Extremities book & Dj lightly rubbed. Dj in Mylar. Illus.; notes; biblio.; index.. Hb. VG/VG., Univ of Chicago Pr, 1999