Emphasizing the conflicted transcultural encounter portrayed in Madama Butterfly, this book examines nineteenth-century treaty-port culture and the eye-witness account that underlies the opera, addresses questions of race and gender in its representation of the heroine, and explores the opera's controversial reception in Japan.
Emphasizing the conflicted transcultural encounter portrayed in Madama Butterfly, this book examines nineteenth-century treaty-port culture and the eye-witness account that underlies the opera, addresses questions of race and gender in its representation of the heroine, and explores the opera's controversial reception in Japan.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Arthur Groos is Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities (emeritus) at Cornell University and former Associate Director of the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini (Lucca). A founding editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal and Cambridge Studies in Opera, his books include Giacomo Puccini: La bohème (1986), Reading Opera (1988), Madama Butterfly: Fonti e documenti (2005), and Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (2011).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: 'Marriage. . . In the Japanese way': 1. Loti and Long - with an eyewitness account Madame Chrysanthème and Madame Butterfly 2. Madama Butterfly: A conflicted genesis 3. Far west/far east: Luigi Illicia's libretto 4. Madama Butterfly between west and east 5. Returns of the native: Madamu Batafurai in Japan 6. Returns of the native: Imaginative transpositions Bibliography.
Introduction: 'Marriage. . . In the Japanese way': 1. Loti and Long - with an eyewitness account Madame Chrysanthème and Madame Butterfly 2. Madama Butterfly: A conflicted genesis 3. Far west/far east: Luigi Illicia's libretto 4. Madama Butterfly between west and east 5. Returns of the native: Madamu Batafurai in Japan 6. Returns of the native: Imaginative transpositions Bibliography.
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