Puccini's two operas Madame Butterfly were staged in Milan in February 19041early July. The plot is adapted from the novel of the same name by an American writer, and is adapted into a script by American playwright Belasco (1854- 193 1). This is a lyric tragedy. Through the tragic fate of a pure and beautiful girl, she criticized the bourgeois worldview of selfishness and harming others. Puccini directly used Japanese folk songs such as Edo Japanese Bridge, Empress of Vietnam and Cherry Blossom in his music creation to describe Madame Butterfly's geisha identity and childish psychology. This work is one of Puccini's masterpieces and an enduring masterpiece on the world opera stage.
Ah, a sunny day is the most famous passage in this work, and it is an aria sung by Madame Butterfly in the second act. After Pinkel returned to China, the maid thought that he would not come back, but Madame Butterfly, who was loyal to love, always dreamed of the happy moment when Pinkel came back by warship on a sunny morning. Facing the sea, she sang the famous aria "Ah, a sunny day". Puccini used a narrative melody here, and described Madame Butterfly's deep yearning for happiness in detail. The music is almost dull, vividly revealing Mrs. Butterfly's longing for her husband's return (fragment 1).
The Artist's Life is a four-act opera, also known as Bohemia and the Embroidery Mother, which was created by Jiakosa and Ilica. 1 896 February1toscanini premiered in Turin.
The three-act opera Girls in the West, also adapted from the play of the same name by American playwright Belasco, was written by Zangarini and Qi Vignini, produced by 19 10, and premiered by toscanini in metropolitan opera on 12.
Puccini's last opera "Turandot" is based on the drama of C. Gozzi. In this work, he adhered to the principle of realism and got rid of the symbolism of the original work, which made the whole play full of life and the characters full of enthusiastic living people. Here, he reversed the lyrical indoor style he used in the past and restored the almost forgotten Italian opera style, with magnificent chorus, brilliant solo passages, colorful sound effects and so on. As the background of the play is ancient China, it adopts the tune of China folk song Jasmine, but it has no China characteristics in other aspects. In his plays, he widely used the old European mode, and in some expressive scenes, he used modern harmony to form a disharmonious multi-tone combination. Unfortunately, Puccini died of illness while composing the third act, and the rest was completed by his student F. Alfano according to his draft. 1926 In April, Turandot premiered in the famous Scala Opera House, which was a great success. At the end of the third act, conductor toscanini put down his baton, turned to the audience and announced in a low voice, "The master's work is over.