The Puccini companion /
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Imprint: | New York : W.W. Norton, c1994. |
| Description: | x, 436 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1696039 |
Table of Contents:
- The Puccini Family / Simonetta Puccini
- The Musical World of the Young Puccini / Julian Budden
- Le Villi, Edgar, and the "Symphonic Element" / Michael Elphinstone
- Puccini's Manon and His Other Heroines / William Weaver
- Manon, Mimi, Artu / Harvey Sachs
- La Jeunesse Qui N'a Qu'un Temps: La Boheme and Its Origins / Fedele D'Amico
- Tosca and Pessimism / Franco Serpa
- Lieutenant F. B. Pinkerton: Problems in the Genesis and Performance of Madama Butterfly / Arthur Groos
- Puccini's America / Mary Jane Phillips-Matz
- Giacomo Puccini's Trittico and the Twentieth Century / Leonardo Pinzanti
- La Rondine / William Ashbrook
- Turandot and the Theatrical Aesthetics of the Twentieth Century / Jurgen Maehder
- The Nonoperatic Works of Giacomo Puccini / Michael Kaye
- Early Puccini Performance: A Condition of Transition / David Hamilton
- Puccini: A Bibliographical Sketch / Nigel Jamieson
- A Select Bibliography of Articles and Dissertations About Puccini and His Operas / Deborah Burton
- A Chronology of Puccini's Life and Works / Maria Grazia Bajoni
- Appendix A: Dramatis Personae / Simonetta Puccini, William Weaver, Michael Elphinstone and William McKnight
- Appendix B: First Performances of Puccini Operas
- Appendix C: Plot Summaries.