Giacomo Puccini
4) La Bohème
Author
Publisher
Kultur
Language
Italiano
Description
Puccini's tragic love story is set in the Latin Quarter of Paris among the bohemian students whose hectic gaiety only partially masks the despair and pain that threaten their lives. It remains one of the most popular of all operas with its stark contrasts of lively humour and poignant tragedy.
6) Tosca
Author
Language
Italiano
Description
Passion, loyalty, lust and finally tragedy are dramatically highighted in Robert Carsen's "theatre-within-theatre" staging of Puccini's great opera. As the beautiful Tosca, Emily Magee plays opposite the charismatic Jonas Kaufmann (Cavaradossi) and debonair Thomas Hampson (Scarpia); together they bring a rare intensity to this famous tale of love and revenge from beyond the grave.
10) M. Butterfly
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the text of the 1988 Tony Award-winning play in which diplomat Rene Gallimard, a captive of the French government, relives his twenty-year affair with a beautiful, elusive Chinese actress who turned out to be not only a spy, but a man in disguise, and includes comments by the author.
15) Madama Butterfly
Author
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[2008], c1997
Language
Italiano
Description
"An American lieutenant marries a beautiful young geisha, to the dismay of her family. Shortly after the wedding the lieutenant departs for America, and his wife bears him a child, alone. Three years later she excitedly awaits his return, only to find to her shock and despair, that he is returning with an American wife."--Container.