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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: Family and Friends Reflect
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,†a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians. The conference concluded with a three-person panel led by Walfredo Toscanini, grandson of original Fanciulla conductor Arturo Toscanini; writer and music historian Harvey Sachs, author of Toscanini (1978), Reflections on Toscanini (1991), and The Letters of Arturo Toscanini (2002); and Cheryl Green, great-grand niece of David Belasco, whose play The Girl of the Golden West inspired Puccini to write Fanciulla.
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: Rhythm and Dance
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,†a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians, including Deborah Burton, a CFA assistant professor of music and former president of the New England Conference for Music Theory.
In the video above, Burton demonstrates the rhythms behind Puccini’s Fancuilla. “We hear the waltz, the polka, and the bolero,†she says. “These dances could have been inspired by the incidental music Puccini heard when he went to New York in 1907 and saw the Belasco plays Girl of the Golden West and Rose of the Rancho. Audiences of those plays would have heard two waltzes, a polka, two boleros, a habanera, and a cachucha.â€
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: The Man Who Inspired the Opera
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,†a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians, including set and costume designer John Conklin. An instructor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and artistic advisor to the Boston Lyric Opera, Conklin has designed for the Metropolitan Opera, the New York City Opera, the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Broadway and off-Broadway productions.
In the video above, Conklin recalls David Belasco, whose 1908 play The Girl of the Golden West inspired Puccini’s opera. “Belasco is remembered most for his connection with Puccini,†he says, “and this celebration of the premiere of Fanciulla brings him back into the limelight.â€
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: David Rosen on the Importance of Stage Manuals
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,†a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians, including David Rosen, a professor emeritus of music at Cornell University who specializes in Italian opera of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
In the video above, Rosen describes the importance of revisiting original stage manuals when producing Fanciulla. “Depending on their pedigree and closeness to the composer,†he says, “stage manuals may be crucial documents in reconstructing the authorial-approved visual element.â€
While Rosen maintains that not every production should be the same — the result would be boring — he also believes that opera producers should know the text of the work in order to know the baseline from which they are deviating. “We want, or should want, to reconstruct the authorial-sanctioned visual element,†he says.
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: World Premiere at the Met
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini,†a symposium that featured numerous musical experts and historians, including pianist Carolyn Guzski, an assistant professor of musicology at the State University of New York, Buffalo, and winner of the Barry Brook Award.
In the video above, Guzski describes the events leading up to the Met’s world premiere of Fanciulla. “The premiere represented the culmination of a comprehensive reassessment of the theater’s repertoire,†she says.
An intricate undertaking nearly a decade in the making, the process involved major changes to the theater’s management structure — a situation that continues to color the Met’s stance toward opera even now.
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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Happy Birthday, Fanciulla: An Introduction by Dean Juárez
La Fanciulla del West, Puccini's best, least-known opera, recently turned 100. The rollicking spaghetti Western — which takes place during the California Gold Rush — premiered December 10, 1910, at New York City’s Metropolitan [...]Opera. But despite its initial success, it didn't prove to be as popular as La Bohème, Tosca, or Madama Butterfly.
In celebration of the opera’s centennial, Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, in conjunction with the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, hosted “Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini," a symposium that featured numerous notable musical experts and historians.
“Puccini was a composer of his time,†says BenjamÃn Juárez, dean of CFA. “And he is still young, challenging, and relevant 100 years later.â€
Hosted by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on December 6, 2010.
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