Book of Donmon Teith

Julian Budden provides a look at the process of putting an opera together, the cut-and-slash of nineteenth-century Italian opera, -the struggle to find the righ

The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life.

Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory.

Next to Verdi's A‹da, Giacomo Puccini's La BohŠme is the most popular opera ever written. Performances of A‹da, La BohŠme, Carmen, and Don Giovanni ? the fo

Puccini's operas are among the most popular and widely performed in the world, yet few books have examined his body of work from an analytical perspective. This