Arthur Groos (New York Cornell University)

Gebundenes Buch

Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 686g
• ISBN-13: 9781009250672
• ISBN-10: 1009250671
• Artikelnr.: 64367015