{"id":698,"date":"2010-12-06T15:26:28","date_gmt":"2010-12-06T19:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2010\/12\/06\/698\/"},"modified":"2010-12-06T22:20:53","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T02:20:53","slug":"698","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/2010\/12\/06\/698\/","title":{"rendered":"BU Symposium Marks Centenary of Puccini Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment701\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment701\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-701\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/files\/2010\/12\/GiacomoPuccini-228x300.jpg\" alt=\"GiacomoPuccini\" width=\"228\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/files\/2010\/12\/GiacomoPuccini-228x300.jpg 228w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/files\/2010\/12\/GiacomoPuccini.jpg 251w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment701\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giacomo Puccini 1858-1924. Wikimedia Image.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This morning, I attended a symposium sponsored by the College of Fine Arts and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbin\/archives\/\">Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center<\/a> on <strong>the centenary of the world premiere of Puccini&#8217;s opera, <\/strong><em><strong>La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West).<\/strong> <\/em>CFA Professor <strong>Deborah Burton<\/strong> joined scholars from other institutions in speaking on the composer and the opera.<\/p>\n<p>Walfredo Toscanini, grandson of Arturo Toscanini, was in attendance.\u00a0 Toscanini and Puccini were collaborators and sometime rivals.<\/p>\n<p>The Gotlieb Center will place original manuscripts, photographs, and scores on exhibit beginning today.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to seeing <em><strong>La Fanciulla del West<\/strong><\/em> later this week in New York at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metoperafamily.org\/metopera\/\">The Metropolitan Opera. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fanciulla100.org\/\">Puccini Centenary Celebration website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I attended a symposium sponsored by the College of Fine Arts and the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center on the centenary of the world premiere of Puccini&#8217;s opera, La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West). CFA Professor Deborah Burton joined scholars from other institutions in speaking on the composer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1682,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4326],"tags":[4337,4338,4336,4340,4339],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1682"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":700,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/bjuarez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}