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Puccini A Concise Biography
Title
Puccini [electronic resource (video)] : A Concise Biography / Hossick, Malcolm.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2011], c2006.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (33 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
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Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on September 05, 2011.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
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Summary
This installment of the Famous Composers series offers an overview of the life and work of Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, born in Tuscany to a historically musical family. The film characterizes the young Puccini as a talented but disinterested student until he was inspired by a performance of Verdi's Aida to pursue opera. Following the composer to the Milan Conservatory, the program traces the dramas of his life, starting with the profitable Le Villi and moving on to his scandalous marriage and failed Edgar. Puccini finally settled at Torre del Lago, where he lived and wrote the rest of his operas, including La Boheme and Madam Butterfly. He left just a few times, taking trips to New York and conducting operas there and in Vienna.
Variant and related titles
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Hossick, Malcolm, 2006.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Famous Composers
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
Access requires authentication through Films on Demand.
11 & up.
Contents
Puccini's Beginnings (4:18)
Giacomo Puccini's Early Music Performances (2:47)
Giacomo Puccini in Milan (2:42)
"La Villi" 1884 (2:32)
Puccini: Scandal and Success (2:34)
Drama at Torre del Lago (3:04)
Puccini's Collaborators (3:21)
Puccini's Hobbies (2:16)
Puccini Composes for Himself (1:46)
Puccini's Final Opera (3:01)
Credits: Puccini: A Concise Biography (0:43)
An Overview of Giacomo Puccini's Work (3:11)
Videorecording number
44005 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Hossick, Malcolm
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