Puccini, Giacomo. (1858–1924). Manon Lescaut, Dramma Lirico.. Milano: G. Ricordi & Co.. [1906]. First Edition. Opera completa per Canto e Pianoforte. Riduzione di Carlo Carignani. [PN] 95567. 264 pp. Ricordi blind stamp of 1906. Marbled boards, 1/4 leather with raised ribs, gilt, and stamping on spine. Minor edge wear, minor rubbing to leather spine, previous owner inscription on second free end page. Very Good, clean text, secure binding, supple pages, sharp and bright gilt and stamping along spine.
A rare edition which corresponds to the pagination of Hopkinson's Fourth Version (3D) and to no other recorded edition, but with significant differences from Hopkinson's description. Chiefly, the present Act IV does not revert to the second version as Hopkinson describes. Suzanne Scherr ("Editing Puccini's Operas: The Case of 'Manon Lescaut,'" Acta Musicologica Vol. 62, p. 65) also records only Hopkinson's edition of 264 pages with this plate number, but notes that Hopkinson "was deceived by dissimilar versions with similar covers and number of pages," and that "while his bibliography lists six versions, eight versions of this opera have been found." The present edition, with a blindstamp that dates it to between the Hopkinson Fourth and Fifth Versions, is apparently an unrecorded version.
Manon Lescaut was Puccini's third opera and his first great success. It premiered in 1893 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy and soon earned him his reputation as a successor to Verdi. Puccini prepared numerous versions of the opera for publication, and while the musical differences between the first and second versions are relatively minor, there were major rewrites and edits in the susequent published versions.
A rare edition which corresponds to the pagination of Hopkinson's Fourth Version (3D) and to no other recorded edition, but with significant differences from Hopkinson's description. Chiefly, the present Act IV does not revert to the second version as Hopkinson describes. Suzanne Scherr ("Editing Puccini's Operas: The Case of 'Manon Lescaut,'" Acta Musicologica Vol. 62, p. 65) also records only Hopkinson's edition of 264 pages with this plate number, but notes that Hopkinson "was deceived by dissimilar versions with similar covers and number of pages," and that "while his bibliography lists six versions, eight versions of this opera have been found." The present edition, with a blindstamp that dates it to between the Hopkinson Fourth and Fifth Versions, is apparently an unrecorded version.
Manon Lescaut was Puccini's third opera and his first great success. It premiered in 1893 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy and soon earned him his reputation as a successor to Verdi. Puccini prepared numerous versions of the opera for publication, and while the musical differences between the first and second versions are relatively minor, there were major rewrites and edits in the susequent published versions.
Puccini, Giacomo. (1858–1924). Manon Lescaut, Dramma Lirico.. Milano: G. Ricordi & Co.. [1906]. First Edition. Opera completa per Canto e Pianoforte. Riduzione di Carlo Carignani. [PN] 95567. 264 pp. Ricordi blind stamp of 1906. Marbled boards, 1/4 leather with raised ribs, gilt, and stamping on spine. Minor edge wear, minor rubbing to leather spine, previous owner inscription on second free end page. Very Good, clean text, secure binding, supple pages, sharp and bright gilt and stamping along spine.
A rare edition which corresponds to the pagination of Hopkinson's Fourth Version (3D) and to no other recorded edition, but with significant differences from Hopkinson's description. Chiefly, the present Act IV does not revert to the second version as Hopkinson describes. Suzanne Scherr ("Editing Puccini's Operas: The Case of 'Manon Lescaut,'" Acta Musicologica Vol. 62, p. 65) also records only Hopkinson's edition of 264 pages with this plate number, but notes that Hopkinson "was deceived by dissimilar versions with similar covers and number of pages," and that "while his bibliography lists six versions, eight versions of this opera have been found." The present edition, with a blindstamp that dates it to between the Hopkinson Fourth and Fifth Versions, is apparently an unrecorded version.
Manon Lescaut was Puccini's third opera and his first great success. It premiered in 1893 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy and soon earned him his reputation as a successor to Verdi. Puccini prepared numerous versions of the opera for publication, and while the musical differences between the first and second versions are relatively minor, there were major rewrites and edits in the susequent published versions.
A rare edition which corresponds to the pagination of Hopkinson's Fourth Version (3D) and to no other recorded edition, but with significant differences from Hopkinson's description. Chiefly, the present Act IV does not revert to the second version as Hopkinson describes. Suzanne Scherr ("Editing Puccini's Operas: The Case of 'Manon Lescaut,'" Acta Musicologica Vol. 62, p. 65) also records only Hopkinson's edition of 264 pages with this plate number, but notes that Hopkinson "was deceived by dissimilar versions with similar covers and number of pages," and that "while his bibliography lists six versions, eight versions of this opera have been found." The present edition, with a blindstamp that dates it to between the Hopkinson Fourth and Fifth Versions, is apparently an unrecorded version.
Manon Lescaut was Puccini's third opera and his first great success. It premiered in 1893 at the Teatro Regio in Turin, Italy and soon earned him his reputation as a successor to Verdi. Puccini prepared numerous versions of the opera for publication, and while the musical differences between the first and second versions are relatively minor, there were major rewrites and edits in the susequent published versions.