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Known principally for her German repertory, Voigt only sang one other Puccini heroine at the Met, the title role of Tosca. Photo: Ken Howard. Right: The thoroughly realistic new production of La Fanciulla del West in 1991 was a major triumph for director Giancarlo Del Monaco. His father, tenor Mario Del Monaco, was a famous interpreter of Dick ...
Dec 2, 2019 · Some heroines represented in Puccini’s operas' are archetypal women—the Idealized Woman, the Femme Fatale, and the Progressive Woman—constructed in publications and discourses during the late...
Apr 21, 2015 · 1. Nelia Manalo - portrayed the leading role of Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata. 2. Mercedes Matias-Santiago - portrayed the role as Lucia in Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucia di Lamermoor. 3. Jovita Fuentes - portrayed the role as Mimi in Giacomo Puccini’s La Boheme and eventually became one of our National Artists .
Her optimism amid even the darkest of circumstances makes her a heroine in every sense of the word. It is Cio-Cio-San’s mixture of sweetness, anguish, vulnerability, and courage that elicits some of Puccini’s most emotionally expansive and heartbreak-ingly tender music.
Puccini’s heroines are dynamic and multifaceted and often cannot be fully encapsulated by a single category. Rather than uphold a limiting and false typology, I introduce a different method that accommodates the inclusion of all Puccini’s heroines to analyze and understand them more fully.
- Shinobu Yoshida
- 2011
Her optimism amid even the darkest of circumstances makes her a heroine in every sense of the word. It is Cio-Cio-San’s mixture of sweetness, anguish, vulnerability, and courage that elicits some of Puccini’s most emotionally expansive and heartbreakingly tender music.
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the Puccini’s operas generally focus on a single category of feminine characters, the so-called ‘heroines of Puccini’. Starting from this finding, we wish to provide a different approach – a more original one, to include a comparative analysis of the heroine of Puccini typologies.
