Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai

Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy'

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

AvArthur Groos,New York) Groos, Arthur (Cornell University

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Puccini's famous but controversial Madama Butterfly reflects a practice of 'temporary marriage' between Western men and Japanese women in nineteenth-century treaty ports. Groos' book identifies the plot's origin in an eye-witness account and traces its transmission via John Luther Long's short story and David Belasco's play. Archival sources, many unpublished, reveal how Puccini and his librettists imbued the opera with differing constructions of the action and its heroine. Groos's analysis suggests how they constructed a 'contemporary' music-drama with multiple possibilities for interpreting the misalliance between a callous American naval officer and an impoverished fifteen-year-old geisha, providing a more complex understanding of the heroine's presumed 'marriage'. As an orientalizing tragedy with a racially inflected representation of Cio-Cio-San, the opera became a lightning rod for identity politics in Japan, while also stimulating decolonizing transpositions into indigenous theatre traditions such as Bunraku puppet theatre and Takarazuka musicals.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-02-16
Mått172 x 250 x 20 mm
Vikt710 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009250672

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Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur
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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).