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HL.49012027
Madame
Butterfly. Composed
by Giacomo Puccini.
Edited by Kurt Pahlen.
This edition:
Paperback/Soft Cover.
Paperback. Serie Musik.
Classical. Text
book/libretto. 288 pages.
Schott Music #SEM 8013.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49012027).
ISBN
9783254080134.
4.75x7.5x0.636 inches.
Italian -
German.
Puccini had
hardly finished his work
on 'Tosca' in 1900 and
seen its first
performances when a new
potential opera subject
attracted his attention
during a theatre visit in
London: the play staged
was 'Madame Butterfly.
Tragedy of a Japanese
Woman'. At the beginning
of 1904, the musical
setting of this subject
matter was completed -
the work was a failure at
the world premiere.
Thereupon, Puccini
revised it into a
three-act version, and it
was in this form that the
opera about the unhappy
Japanese woman began its
triumphant progress.Apart
from the Italian libretto
and the common German
translation, this edition
contains introductory
commentaries of Kurt
Pahlen who also adds
information on the
compositional structure
and context to the
musical as well as
external and internal
dramatic action of the
opera. A short synopsis
and a brief outline of
the genesis bring the
work into relation with
the composer's entire
oeuvre and life, thus
offering a comprehensive,
richly illustrated
introduction.
Butterfly Song
