| 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 ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| 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 ... | |
| 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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