Blog 6. Puccini – Turandot
Turandot was Puccini’s last opera, left incomplete at his death. All that was missing was the last part of the last act and there were…
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Blog 5. Puccini – Madame Butterfly
For his librettist for Madama Butterfly, Puccini chose the team of Illica and Giacosa, the same librettists who wrote La Boheme. It joins Boheme and…
Blog 4. Puccini – Tosca “that shabby little shocker”
The famed critic and music pedant Joseph Kerman coined “that shabby little shocker” phrase for Tosca in his book “Opera as Drama”, a book I…