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

Opera recordings have been with us since the creation of the first wax cylinders. Now at a time when the 25-year reign of the compact disc appears to be coming

The performance history of each of Puccini's operas are reviewed and related to events in his life.