The Puccini Companion

This informative volume offers 27 photographs and drawings, select bibliographies, a chronology of Puccini's life and works, a dramatis personae of the countless individuals who played a role in Puccini's career, a list of first performances, and plot summaries of all the operas.

What forces helped shape the output of this high-living, often arrogant, but immensely talented composer? This fascinating collection includes Simonetta Puccini's essay full of intimate details about her family, as ...