Franco Alfano
Subtitle: transcending Turandot
By: Konrad Dryden.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810869707; 9780810869776; 9780810869714
Subjects: Alfano, Franco, -- 1875-1954; Composers -- Italy -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Posillipo-Leipzig-Miranda (1875-1896); title: La fonte d'enscir (1897-1899); title: Resurrezione and Il principe Zilah (1899-1909); title: L'ombra di Don Giovanni (1910-1914); title: La leggenda di Sakùntala, Tagore and tragedy (1915-1921); title: Turandot (1921-1925); title: Mary Garden-Vienna-Rostand; title: Mussolini and Balzac; title: Metropolitan Opera premiere; title: A tale of two operas (1928-1929); title: France and an American saint (1930-1931); title: Cyrano de Bergerac (1932-1933); title: Palermo and Don Juan de Manara (1934-1941); title: Wartime phoenix (1942-1947); title: Final years (1948-1954); title: Opera plots; title: Appendix : the Alfano opus.