Puccini's operas are among the most popular and widely performed in the world, yet few books have examined his body of work from an analytical perspective. This

Julian Budden, one of the world's foremost scholars of Italian opera, here offers music lovers a major biography of Giacomo Puccini--a volume in the esteemed Ma

This masterful biography provides the most authentic and revealing portrait to date of this major operatic composer

Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory.

Set in the American West during the California Gold Rush, La fanciulla del West marked a significant departure from Giacomo Puccini's previous and best- known w