A SECOND BOOK OF OPERAS - HENRY EDWARD KREHBIEL

Excerpt from A Second Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music The opera's ancestry, 169 Loti's Madame Chrysantheme, 169 - John Luther Long's story, 169 - David Belasco's play, 169 - How the failure of Naughty Anthony suggested Madame Butterfly, 169 - William Furst and his music, 171, 189 Success of Mr. Belasco's play in New York, 171 - The success repeated in London, 172 Brought to the attention of Signor Puccini, 172 Ricordi and Co. And their librettists, 172 - Madama Butterfly fails in Milan, 173 The first casts in Milan, Brescia, and New York, 173 (footnote) -incidents of the fiasco, 174 Rossini and Puccini, 174 The opera revised, 175 Interruption of the vigil, 175 - Story of the opera, 176 et seq. - The hiring of wives in Japan, 176 Experiences of Pierre Loti, 176 Geishas and mous mes, 178 - A changed dénouement, 183 -messager's opera, Ma dame Chrysantheme, 183 - The end of Loti's romance, 184 Japanese melodies in the score, 186 - Puccini's method and Wag ner's, 187 The star-spangled Banner, 187 A tune from The Mikado, 187 Some of the themes of Puccini and William Furst, 188, 189. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works. Continue Reading...

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