The Puccini Problem
Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity
- Author: Wilson, Alexandra
It's a rare occasion when a scholar taps into the mother lode, but Alexandra Wilson has done just that with The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity. And she has done it exceptionally... — More…
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Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Inventing an Italian composer
- 2. La boheme: organicism, progress and the press
- 3. Tosca: truth and lies
- 4. A frame without a canvas: Madama Butterfly and the superficial
- 5. Torrefranca vs. Puccini
- 6. The Italian composer as internationalist
- 7. A suitable ending?
- Epilogue
- Appendix I. Selected newspapers and journals
- Appendix 2. personalia.