1920 Giacomo Puccini ALS discussing the showing of Il Trittico in Paris
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An attractive ALS in Italian, signed "Giacomo Puccini". Written by the composer to Renzo Valcarenghi from his Torre Della Tagliata home in Orbetello. Neatly penned in black ink across three pages. Puccini discusses his difficulty in getting the management of the Opera Comique to agree to show Il Trittico. "Mr Carre told me that I made Trop D'argent (too much money) and thus it was impossible to give more of my operas at the Opera Comique, because they would have him shot." He goes on to lament "the same old story, the war against me by the French colleagues, on account of the predominance of my operas at the Opera Comique." Puccini concludes by suggesting Renzo attempts to give Il Trittico at the Grand Opera: "I beg you speak to the management, but firmly and persistently, not like Clausetti did a year ago." EX condition with horizontal centrefold from mailing. Comes with a full English translation.
An interesting letter with significant operatic content; it provides an insight into the perceived discrimination Puccini faced in Paris as a foreign composer. Il Trittico was his penultimate production, premiering in New York in 1918. Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.
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Puccini purchased the ancient fort of Torre della Tagliata as a winter retreat in October 1919 - the property was just 10 metres from the sea and provided Puccini with ample opportunity to partake in two of his cherished pastimes, hunting and fishing. The climate was also favourable due to the shelter provided by the hill of Ansedonia. Puccini's delight proved to be short lived. "Within a year he was inveighing against the desolation, the stink of the marshes, and, above all, the debilitating 'scirocco'. In 1922 he put the property up for sale." [Julian Budden, Puccini: His Life And Works, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002]
An interesting letter with significant operatic content; it provides an insight into the perceived discrimination Puccini faced in Paris as a foreign composer. Il Trittico was his penultimate production, premiering in New York in 1918. Turandot, Puccini's final opera, was left unfinished, and the last two scenes were completed by Franco Alfano based on the composer's sketches.
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Puccini purchased the ancient fort of Torre della Tagliata as a winter retreat in October 1919 - the property was just 10 metres from the sea and provided Puccini with ample opportunity to partake in two of his cherished pastimes, hunting and fishing. The climate was also favourable due to the shelter provided by the hill of Ansedonia. Puccini's delight proved to be short lived. "Within a year he was inveighing against the desolation, the stink of the marshes, and, above all, the debilitating 'scirocco'. In 1922 he put the property up for sale." [Julian Budden, Puccini: His Life And Works, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002]
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