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Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) is the worlds most frequently performed operatic composer, yet he is only beginning to receive serious scholarly attention. In Giacomo Puccini and His World, an international roster of music specialists, several writing on Puccini for the first time, offers a variety of new critical perspectives on the composer and his works. Containing discussions of all of Puccinis operas from Manon Lescaut (1893) to Turandot (1926), this volume aims to move beyond clichés of the composer as a Romantic epigone and to resituate him at the heart of early twentieth-century musical modernity.

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Arman Schwartz is a Birmingham Fellow in Music at the University of Birmingham and a member of the editorial board of Opera Quarterly. Emanuele Senici is professor of music history at the University of Rome la Sapienza and a former editor of the Cambridge Opera Journal.

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