{"product_id":"puccini-and-the-girl","title":"Puccini and The Girl","description":"Set in the American West during the California Gold Rush, \u003ci\u003eLa fanciulla del West\u003c\/i\u003e marked a significant departure from Giacomo Puccini's previous and best- known works.\u003ci\u003e Puccini and the Girl\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to explore this important but often misunderstood opera that became the earliest work by a major European composer to receive an American premiere when it opened at New York's Metropolitan Opera House in 1910.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAdapted from American playwright David Belasco's Broadway production, The Girl of the Golden West, Fanciulla was Puccini's most consciously modern work, and its Met debut received mixed reviews. Annie J. Randall and Rosalind Gray Davis base their account of its creation on previously unknown letters from Puccini to his main librettist, Carlo Zangarini. They mine musical materials, newspaper accounts, and rare photographs and illustrations to tell the full story of this controversial opera. Puccini and the Girl considers the production and reception of Puccini's \"cowboy\" opera in the light of contemporary criticism, providing both fascinating insight into its history and a look to the future as its centenary approaches. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Engrossing. . . . An eminently readable, ideally direct and information-packed book.”—William Fregosi, \u003ci\u003eOpera Today \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54220042797400,"sku":"9780226703909","price":38.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780226703909.jpg?v=1769758223","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/puccini-and-the-girl","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}