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Listening and Reading Suggestions
Maestro’s pick CD
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La bohème, Giacomo Puccini
Featuring Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese
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Websites
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Search for “La bohème” on YouTube
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La bohème libretto in Italian and English
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Henry Murger’s Scènes de la vie de bohème at gutenberg.org
(in English, also available in French)
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La bohème piano-vocal score in Italian and English from the Indiana University Music Library, to read online or print out
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The Café Momus compared to other examples of food and restaurants in art, on a site hosted by the European Associated Teachers (EAT)
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The same text, different context
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Articles
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"Music and infectious diseases,"
by M. Gomis and B. Sanchez
Clinical Microbiology and Infection 6 (11), 575-578.
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"At the deathbed of consumptive art - Another Dimension," by David M. Morens
Emerging Infectious Diseases, November 2002.
Our link goes directly to the third page, where opera appears, and it's easy to click back to the beginning of this long article.
Note: findarticles.com is supported by advertising, so you may find yourself reading about "wasting" diseases accompanied by ads that say "Trim your thighs in four weeks."
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Books
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Arthur Groos and Roger Parker. Giacomo Puccini: La bohème (Cambridge Opera Handbooks). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Chapters by several authors on various aspects of La bohème, from politics to musicology. |
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Julian Budden. Puccini: His Life and Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Everything by the late Julian Budden (d. February 28, 2007) is brilliant, thorough, thoughtful, and inspiring.
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Mary Jane Phillips-Matz. Puccini: A Biography. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2002.
Friendly, readable, and smart.
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William Mann. Giacomo Puccini: La bohème (The Metropolitan Opera Classics Library). Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1983.
Many treasures in this little book: libretto in Italian and English, and four tellings of the synopsis, including a story adaptation by V. S. Pritchett and the story illustrated with photographs of the Met's gorgeous 1981 production with Teresa Stratas, José Carreras, and Renata Scotto.
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William Weaver and Simonetta Puccini. The Puccini Companion. New York: W. W. Norton, new edition, 2000.
A veritable buffet of Puccini topics, with chapters by most of the other authors from this resource list. Simonetta is the composer’s granddaughter, founder of the Institute of Puccini Studies, and curator of his letters.
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Peter Southwell-Sander. Puccini (Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers). London: Omnibus Press, 1996.
Lively writing style with engaging historical photos and drawings.
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DVDs
Note: there are dozens of DVDs available, some very good. These three are the work of such stars as Pavarotti, Scotto, James Levine, Stratas, and Zefirelli.
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Pavarotti, Scotto, Niska, Wixell, Plishka, Levine, Metropolitan Opera
(1977; first Pavarotti broadcast)
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Franco Zeffirelli • James Levine - T. Stratas • R. Scotto • J. Carreras • MET (1982)
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Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi, Adriana Martino, Rolando Panerai, Herbert von Karajan (1965)
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