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Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera, here offers music lovers a major biography of Giacomo Puccini--a volume in the esteemed Ma

Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders. Now at a time when the 25-year reign of the compact disc appears to be coming

Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is the world's most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Gi

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

This masterful biography provides the most authentic and revealing portrait to date of this major operatic composer