Table of Contents: “…A musical dynasty 1600-1880 -- Milan and the old guard: 1880-1883 -- Le Willis, later called Le Villi: 1884-1886 -- Edgar, Elvira, and Antonio: 1886-1889 -- Manon Lescaut: 1890-1893 -- La Boḧme: 1893-1898 -- Tosca: 1887-1900 -- Madama butterfly: 1900-1906 -- The international celebrity at home and abroad: 1905-1908 -- La Fanciulla del West and beyond: 1908-1913 -- La Rondine, war, and Il Trittico: 1913-1920 -- The unfinished Turandot: spring 1919-November 1924.…”

Table of Contents: “…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 Pinzauti -- La rondine / William Ashbrook -- Turandot and the theatrical aesthetics of the twentieth century / Jürgen Maehder -- The nonoperatic works of Giacomo Puccini / Michael Kaye -- Early Puccini performance : a condition of transition / David Hamilton…”

Table of Contents: “…Realism and skepticism in Puccini's early operas / Arman Schwartz -- Madama Butterfly between East and West / Arthur Groos -- Laggiù nel Soledad : indexing and archiving the operatic west / Ellen Lockhart -- The swallow and the lark : La rondine and Viennese operetta / Micaela Baranello -- Puccini's things : materials and media in Il trittico / Alessandra Campana and Christopher Morris -- Puccini, fascism, and the case of Turandot / Ben Earle -- Music, language, and meaning in opera : Puccini and his contemporaries / Leon Botstein -- part 2. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Ch'ella mi creda -- La rondine. Chi il bel sogno di Doretta -- Suor Angelica. …”