- Deborah Burton
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Deborah Burton is an American music theorist, pianist, and academic. She is particularly known for her publications on Giacomo Puccini and his works, including the 2004 book Tosca's Prism: Three Moments of Western Cultural History. She has contributed articles to numerous music journals, including Nuova Rivista Musicale, Opera Quarterly, Studi Musicali, and Theoria.
She earned a Diploma in Piano Performance from the Mannes College of Music, a Master of Music from the Yale School of Music, and a PhD from the University of Michigan in 1995 with a doctoral dissertion entitled An Analysis of Puccini's Tosca: A Heuristic Approach to the Unifying Elements of the Opera.[1] She is Assistant Professor of Music, Composition and Theory at Boston University and is a former faculty member at Adrian College, Florida International University, Fordham University, Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Michigan, and Yale University.[2]
Burton was one of the originators of the conference "Tosca 2000" in Rome, marking the centenary of Puccini's Tosca and the 2010 Boston conference "Fanciulla 100: Celebrating Puccini" (and its website fanciulla100.org), marking the centenary of Puccini's La fanciulla del West.[3]
Contents
Bibliography
- Books
- Burton, Deborah; Nicassio, Susan Vandiver; Ziino, Agostino (eds.) (2004). Tosca's prism: Three moments of western cultural history. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1555536166
- Articles
- Burton, Deborah. (1994). "A Select Bibliography of Articles and Dissertations about Puccini and His Operas" in The Puccini Companion, William Weaver and Simonetta Puccini (eds). Norton. ISBN 0393320529
- Burton, Deborah (1994). "The Real Scarpia: Historical Sources for Tosca." Opera Quarterly, Vol. 10, no. 2
- Burton, Deborah (1996). "The Creation of Tosca: Toward a Clearer View." Opera Quarterly, Vol. l2, no. 3
- Burton, Deborah (1996). "Michele Puccini's Counterpoint Treatise". Quaderni pucciniani
- Burton, Deborah (2001). "A Journey of Discovery: Puccini's ‘motivo di prima intenzione’ and its applications in Manon Lescaut, La fanciulla del West and Suor Angelica". Studi Musicali, 2, pp. 473-499
- Burton, Deborah (2004). "Orfeo, Osmin and Otello: Towards a theory of opera analysis", Studi musicali Vol. 33, no. 2
References
- ^ Fairtile (1999) p. 149
- ^ Boston University. Deborah Burton
- ^ Weaver (July 16, 2000) p. 21, Section 2; Sachs (December 10, 2010); Kellow (December 2010)
Sources
- Ellison, Cori (December 3, 2010). "When Puccini Rode Tall In the Saddle". New York Times
- Fairtile, Linda (1999). Giacomo Puccini: A guide to research. Routledge. ISBN 0815320337
- Kellow, Brian (December 2010). "Giordani saddles up to sing Dick Johnson at the Met; a Boston University academic makes Fanciulla's centennial her personal crusade.". Opera News, Vol. 75, No. 6
- Sachs, Julian (December 10, 2010) "Puccini’s 100-Year-Old Girl". i-Italy, Italian/American Digital Project
- Weaver, William (July 16, 2000). "In 'Tosca,' a Touch of Family History". New York Times, p. 21, Section 2
External links
- fanciulla100.org
- Podcasts from Opera and Society, an interdisciplinary conference held at Boston University April 18-19, 2008, including Deborah Burton's presentation "In his shoes: The Marriage of Figaro and the Movies" and her interview with Gottfried Wagner
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