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520 a| With the passing of giants like Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, and with Verdi in decline, Italian opera at the end of the nineteenth century appeared to be on the wane. Then, suddenly, with the legendary premiere of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana in 1890, Italian opera entered into a period of enormous artistic creativity and commercial success. This book chronicles the last years of Verdi and Catalani and the emergence of the Giovane Scuola (young school) of Italian composers led by the superstar composers Puccini and Mascagni, and including such lesser-known but important figures as Giordano, Cilèa, and Leoncavallo. Mallach carries their story through to the first World War and a new generation of composers, including Zandonai and Wolf-Ferrari, through the rise of musical modernism in Italy early in the twentieth century. In doing so he offers opera scholars and aficionados a detailed and richly textured perspective on an important but widely misunderstood period in Italian opera. The author places the emergence of the Giovane Scuola firmly within the great social and political upheavals of the time, which brought previously unexplored themes and exotic settings into the Opera House. Their works expressed an intensity of passion, sentimentality, and violence, which appealed to a new generation of operagoers, reflecting the growing dominance of the bourgeois in the new Italy that emerged after unification. Their music reflected the nation?s growing cosmopolitanism, integrating themes and styles from composers as diverse as Massenet and Wagner, Strauss, and Debussy into the Italian operatic tradition.While the author?s principal emphasis is on operas and composers, he also provides portraits of the outstanding operatic singers and conductors of the time, and the developments that transformed the opera industry toward the end of the nineteenth century. The author discusses the powerful role played by the two dominant publishers, Giulio Ricordi and Edoardo Sonzogno, the ownership and operation of the nation?s opera houses, the make-up of the operatic audience, and the diffusion of opera throughout Italy through civic bands and choral societies. This is a landmark and highly readable work of scholarship that sheds light on the last great era of Italian opera.;

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The autumn of Italian opera : from Verismo to modernism, 1890-1915 / Alan Mallach.

Author/creator	Mallach, Alan
Format	Book
Publication Info	Boston : Northeastern University Press ; Hanover : Published by University Press of New England, ©2007.
Description	xiv, 490 pages : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Subjects	Opera--Italy. --19th century. Opera--Italy. --20th century.

Contents	Part I: Before 1900. Prologue: The unificiation of Italy and the world of opera to 1890. Opera and society on the eve of unification ; Unification and its discontents ; Positivism and naturalism: the new class and its doctrines ; Italian opera in crisis: 1860-1890 -- "Abbiamo un maestro": Cavalleria Rusticana and its progeny. The premiere of Cavalleria Rusticana ; Pietro Mascagni ; Cavalleria Rusticana, a transformative opera ; Diffusion and imitation ; Ruggero Leoncavallo and Pagliacci ; Verismo opera: fact or fancy? -- Catalani, Franchetti, and the rise of Puccini. Catalani, Puccini, and Franchetti in 1890 ; Alfredo Catalani, poet of melancholy ; Alberto Franchetti and the last grand opera ; Giacomo Puccini makes his operatic debut ; Edgar and Manon Lescaut: Puccini's path to creative maturity -- The giovane scuola comes of age: Giordano, Cilea and the House of Sonzogno. The giovane scuola emerges ; Umberto Giordano ; Francesco Cilea ; Costume drama and cinematic opera: Giordano's Andrew Chenier -- The greatest living Italian: the last decade of Giuseppe Verdi. The last hero ; Verdi and the giovane scuola ; Va, vecchio Giuseppe ... Falstaff and the apotheosis of Giuseppe Verdi -- The rise of bourgeois opera in a changing nation. The crisis of the fin de siecle ; Opera for the changing tastes of the bourgeoisie ; Tender feelings and everyday objects ; Sexuality, violence, and melodrama ; Sex, violence, and symbolism in Mascagni's Iris -- Part II: The operatic landscape. The land of opera. Temples of opera ; The second tier ; The crisis of the teatri massimi and the decline and fall of the Teatro alla Scala ; Bringing La Scala back to life ; Bands, choral societies, and opera outside the opera houses -- Performing opera. The operatic octopus ; Singers ; Conductors ; Staging and the disposizione scenica -- Ricordi, Sonzogno, and the power of the publishers. The publishing duopoly ; Publishers and their composers ; A new generation takes over -- Librettists and libretti. The librettists ; Luigi Illica: librettist to a generation ; The fin de siecle libretto -- Part III: After 1900. The giovane scuola grows older. Leoncavallo's moment passes ; The long winter of Alberto Franchetti ; Adriana Lecouvreur and Cilea's silence ; Puccini and the apotheosis of bourgeois opera -- Comic opera. The problem of comedy ; Mascagni's Le Maschere and its seven premieres ; Wolf-Ferrari and the Goldoni operas -- Gabriele D'Annunzio and the new generation. The age of Giolitti ; The rise of the new generation ; Gabriele D'Annunzio, Wagner, and Italian opera -- Tristan's children. Pietro Mascagni, Isabeau, and Parisina ; Italo Montemezzi and L'amore dei tre re ; Riccardo Zandonai and Francesca da Rimini -- The end of an era. The crisis of the tradition ; The challenge of the intellectuals ; The modernist challenge and the "Generazione dell'ottanta" ; The rise of the cinema and the capture of the opera audience -- Epilogue. Summing up ; The last hurrah of the giovane scuola ; The opera museum.
Abstract	With the passing of giants like Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, and with Verdi in decline, Italian opera at the end of the nineteenth century appeared to be on the wane. Then, suddenly, with the legendary premiere of Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana in 1890, Italian opera entered into a period of enormous artistic creativity and commercial success. This book chronicles the last years of Verdi and Catalani and the emergence of the Giovane Scuola (young school) of Italian composers led by the superstar composers Puccini and Mascagni, and including such lesser-known but important figures as Giordano, Cilèa, and Leoncavallo. Mallach carries their story through to the first World War and a new generation of composers, including Zandonai and Wolf-Ferrari, through the rise of musical modernism in Italy early in the twentieth century. In doing so he offers opera scholars and aficionados a detailed and richly textured perspective on an important but widely misunderstood period in Italian opera. The author places the emergence of the Giovane Scuola firmly within the great social and political upheavals of the time, which brought previously unexplored themes and exotic settings into the Opera House. Their works expressed an intensity of passion, sentimentality, and violence, which appealed to a new generation of operagoers, reflecting the growing dominance of the bourgeois in the new Italy that emerged after unification. Their music reflected the nation?s growing cosmopolitanism, integrating themes and styles from composers as diverse as Massenet and Wagner, Strauss, and Debussy into the Italian operatic tradition.While the author?s principal emphasis is on operas and composers, he also provides portraits of the outstanding operatic singers and conductors of the time, and the developments that transformed the opera industry toward the end of the nineteenth century. The author discusses the powerful role played by the two dominant publishers, Giulio Ricordi and Edoardo Sonzogno, the ownership and operation of the nation?s opera houses, the make-up of the operatic audience, and the diffusion of opera throughout Italy through civic bands and choral societies. This is a landmark and highly readable work of scholarship that sheds light on the last great era of Italian opera.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-458) and index.
LCCN	2007027452
ISBN	9781555536831 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	1555536832 (cloth : alk. paper)

The autumn of Italian opera : from Verismo to modernism, 1890-1915 / Alan Mallach.

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