Puccini

Foreword, by William Ashbrook
Preface to the English Edition
Note on Editions
Note on the Musical Examples
List of Abbreviations
1. Dynasty of Composers
2. Scapigliatura Interlude
3. Manon Lescaut: Wagner and the Eighteenth Century
4. La Bohème: The Poetic Reality
5. Tosca: Rome between Faith and Power
6. Madama Butterfly: An Exotic Tragedy
7. Puccini in the Twentieth Century
8. Wars, à la Operetta
9. Experimental Dramaturgy
10. Turandot!
Catalog of Works
Selected Bibliography
Index