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Puccini's La Boheme (the Dover Opera Libretto Series)

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Puccini's La Boheme (the Dover Opera Libretto Series)
Puccini's La Boheme (the Dover Opera Libretto Series)

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Next to Verdi's
Aïda,
Giacomo Puccini's
La Bohème
is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of
Aïda, La Bohème, Carmen,
and
Don Giovanni
— the four operas most often performed — constitute approximately 75 percent of the yearly schedule of operas throughout the world.
This volume contains everything the opera goer needs to derive full satisfaction from La Bohème except the musical score itself. Most important, it provides the complete text of the Italian libretto, just as it is actually sung; that is, where a singer repeats a phrase several times, each of the repetitions is given here. And facing the Italian text is a completely new translation of the libretto into modern, idiomatic English.
In addition to the libretto and English translation, this edition provides a careful, concise summary of the plot of
and a complete list of the opera's characters. There is also a brief, highly informative introduction by the translator that traces Puccini's masterpiece back to its source in Henry Murger's autobiographical novel
La Vie Bohème,
illuminating the early history of the opera and its later development.
Opera lovers can use this book with their own recordings of the opera, read it before attending a performance, or can easily take it along to the performance itself. Those who have regretted the lack of a good, authentic, readable edition of the Italian libretto of
La Bohème,
and have complained of the stodginess of existing English translations, will recognize in this book a first-rate aid to the understanding of one of Puccini's most celebrated operas.

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