The Puccini Problem : Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. Inventing an Italian composer; 2. La boheme: organicism, progress and the press; 3. Tosca: truth and lies; 4. A frame without a canvas: Madama Butterfly and the superficial; 5. Torrefranca vs. Puccini; 6. The Italian composer as internationalist; 7. A suitable ending?; Epilogue; Appendix I. Selected newspapers and journals; Appendix 2. personalia.