Classical Composer: | Puccini, Giacomo |
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Lyricist: | Fucini, Renato |
Work: | Avanti, Urania! (arr. Michael Kaye for voice and piano) |
Year Composed: | 1896 |
Instrumentation: | v, pf |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Duration: | 00:02:00 |
Period: | Romantic |
Work Category: | Vocal |
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Puccini composed this for his friend and patron Marchese Carlo Ginori-Lisci, who had acquired a Scottish iron screw steamer for licence under the Italian flag as Urania. The song, written for the launch of the ship, alludes to the patron god of the heavens, Uranus. While lacking the effortless airborne mastery of the kingfisher or elemental power of the fish in water, the steamer embodies a glowing human ambition and a desire for glory. This resolution in the face of personal limitation, characterized by rapid melodic impulse, suggests the rising determination of the last stanza. There are fleeting melodic pre-echoes of both Tosca (1900) and Madama Butterfly (1904).
Writer: Robert Ignatius Letellier
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