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Puccini: His Life and Works

Julian Budden - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 538 pages
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 right performers for ...
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The Operas of Puccini

William Ashbrook - Biography & Autobiography - 1985 - 292 pages
The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life.
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The Complete Puccini

Colin Kendell - History - 2013 - 160 pages
Kendell tells the story of the world's most popular operatic composer, progressing through the operas, their plots and how they were composed. He recounts it all in a simple ...
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The Autumn of Italian Opera: From Verismo to Modernism, 1890-1915

Alan Mallach - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 516 pages
The first full-length study of the last great era of Italian opera
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Puccini: A Biography

Mary Jane Phillips-Matz - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 404 pages
This masterful biography provides the most authentic and revealing portrait to date of this major operatic composer
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Puccini

Timothy Ramsden - Composers - 1996 - 166 pages
A new and original illustrated introduction to the life and operas of Giacomo Puccini, especially designed for the general reader. Covers all of Puccini's operas, from the ...
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Giacomo Puccini and His World

Arman Schwartz, Emanuele Senici - Biography & Autobiography - 2016 - 360 pages
Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and ...
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Puccini Without Excuses: A Refreshing Reassessment of the World's Most ...

William Berger - Music - 2009 - 480 pages
Puccini is the most beloved composer of opera in the world: one quarter of all opera performances in the U.S. are of his operas, his music pervades movie soundtracks, and his ...
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