Madama Butterfly/Madamu Batafurai

Transpositions of a 'Japanese Tragedy'

AvArthur Groos

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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 Archival sources, many unpublished, reveal how Puccini and his librettists imbued the opera with differing constructions of the action and its heroine.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

Utgivningsdatum:2023-02-16
Mått:172 x 250 x 20 mm
Vikt:710 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:296
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009250672

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Klassisk musik, konstmusik och orkestermusik inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

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).

Recensioner i media

'This timely and exceptional study of Madama Butterfly provides a valuable, well-documented and illuminating account of the origins of the work and aspects of its reception in Japan. It is a meticulous exploration of the significance of this tragedia giapponese that will make a lasting contribution to Puccini studies.' Naomi Matsumoto, Goldsmiths, University of London

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: 'Marriage. . . In the Japanese way': 1. Loti and Long – with an eyewitness account Madame Chrysanthème and Madame Butterfly; 2. Madama Butterfly: A conflicted genesis; 3. Far west/far east: Luigi Illicia's libretto; 4. Madama Butterfly between west and east; 5. Returns of the native: Madamu Batafurai in Japan; 6. Returns of the native: Imaginative transpositions; Bibliography.