Introduction: Puccini, His World, and Ours

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Permissions viii
5. Introduction: Puccini, His World, and Ours 1
6. Part I. Essays
7. Realism and Skepticism in Puccini’s Early Operas 29
8. Madama Butterfly Between East and West 49
9. Laggiù nel Soledad: Indexing and Archiving the Operatic West 85
10. The Swallow and the Lark: La rondine and Viennese Operetta 111
11. Puccini’s Things: Materials and Media in Il trittico 133
12. Puccini, Fascism, and the Case of Turandot 159
13. Music, Language, and Meaning in Opera: Puccini and His Contemporaries 183
14. Part II. Documents
15. Puccini on His Interpreters 229
16. The Verismo Debate 261
17. Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci And Modern-Realistic Opera 273
18. Albert Carré’s Staging Manual for Madama Butterfly (1906) 291
19. Selections from Fausto Torrefranca’s Giacomo Puccini and International Opera 323
20. Index 337
21. Contributors 347
22. Backmatter 351