The Puccini Problem

Opera, Nationalism and Modernity

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Hardcover | 8 March 2007

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A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up as both the antidote to and the embodiment of the decadence widely felt to be afflicting late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Italy, a nation which although politically unified remained culturally divided. The book focuses upon two central, related questions that were debated throughout Puccini's career: his status as a national or international composer, and his status as a traditionalist or modernist. In addition, Wilson examines how Puccini's operas became caught up in a wide range of extra-musical controversies concerning such issues as gender and class. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of both the history of opera and of the wider artistic and intellectual life of turn-of-the-century Italy.

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'As accessible as Puccini's music itself ... a book that can engage both scholars and the opera-going public.' Musical Times 'Extensively researched and intelligently argued ... a fine addition to the Puccini bibliography.' Opera Magazine

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List of illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. x
Note on translations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Inventing an Italian composer	p. 11
La boheme: organicism, progress and the press	p. 40
Tosca: truth and lies	p. 69
A frame without a canvas: Madama Butterfly and the superficial	p. 97
Torrefranca versus Puccini	p. 125
The Italian composer as internationalist	p. 155
A suitable ending?	p. 185
Epilogue	p. 221
Selected newspapers and journals	p. 229
Personalia	p. 237
Notes	p. 254
Bibliography	p. 292
Index	p. 310
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