
- •1. Education and early works.
- •2. The Bohemian period.
- •3. Acquiring a style.
- •4. Realism and poetry.
- •5. Idealism and power.
- •6. Exoticism and tragedy.
- •7. ‘Renewal or Death’.
- •8. ‘La rondine’, or disenchantment.
- •9. New forms.
- •10. The last experiment.
- •11. Assessment.
- •Instrumental
- •Individual operas
Individual operas
A. Coeuroy: La ‘Tosca’ de Puccini. Étude historique et critique, et analyse musicale (Paris, 1922)
R. Mariani: ‘Prodromi pucciniani: Le villi e Edgar’, Musica d’oggi (n.p., 1958), 218–25; repr. in Verismo in musica e altri studi (Florence, 1976), 28–34
L’avant-scène opéra, no.11 (1977) [Tosca issue]
J. Smith: ‘A Metamorphic Tragedy’, PRMA, cvi (1978–80), 105–14
J. Smith: ‘Madame Butterfly: the Paris Première of 1906’, Werk und Wiedergabe Musiktheater exemplarisch interpretiert, ed. S. Wiesmann (Bayreuth, 1980), 229–38
L’avant-scène opéra, no.20 (1979) [La bohème issue]
L’avant-scène opéra, no.33 (1981) [Turandot issue]
M. Girardi: ‘Turandot: il futuro interrotto del melodramma italiano’, RIM, xvii (1982), 155–81
L’avant-scène opéra, no.56 (1983) [Madama Butterfly issue]
S. Döhring: ‘Musikalischer Realismus in Puccinis Tosca’, AnMc, xxii (1984), 249–96
L’avant-scène opéra, no.82 (1985) [Gianni Schicchi issue]
M. Carner, ed.: Giacomo Puccini: Tosca (Cambridge, 1985)
D. Goldin: ‘Drammaturgia e linguaggio della Bohème di Puccini’, La vera fenice: libbrettisti e libretti tra Sette e Ottocento (Turin, 1985), 335–74
A. Groos and R. Parker, eds.: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème (Cambridge, 1986)
J. Maehder: ‘Paris-Bilder: zur Transformation von Henry Mürgers Roman in den “Bohème” – Opern Puccinis und Leoncavallos’, JbO, ii (1986), 109–76
A. Groos: ‘Lieutenant F.B. Pinkerton: Problems in the Genesis of an Operatic Hero’, Italica, lxiv (1987), 654–75
J. Budden: ‘The Genesis and Literary Source of Giacomo Puccini's First Opera’, COJ, i/1 (1989), 79–85
G. Dotto: ‘Opera, Four Hands: Collaborative Alterations in Puccini's Fanciulla’, JAMS, xlii (1989), 604–24
A. Groos: ‘Return of the Native: Japan in Madama Butterfly/Madama Butterfly in Japan’, COJ, i/2 (1989), 167–94
S. Scherr: ‘Editing Puccini's Operas: the Case of Manon Lescaut’, AcM, lxii (1990), 62–81
W. Ashbrook and H. Powers: Puccini’s Turandot: the End of the Great Tradition (Princeton, NJ, 1991)
A.W. Atlas: ‘Newly Discovered Sketches for Puccini's Turandot at the Pierpont Morgan Library’, COJ, iii/2 (1991), 173–93
A. Groos: ‘Madame Butterfly: the Story’, COJ, iii/2 (1991), 125–58
M. Girardi: ‘Il finale de La fanciulla del West e alcuni problemi di codice’, Opera & Libretto, ii (1993), 417–37
D. Burton: An Analysis of Puccini’s ‘Tosca’: a Heuristic Approach to the Unifying Elements of the Opera (Ann Arbor, 1995)
L’avant-scène opéra, no.165 (1995) [Fanciulla del West issue]
K.M. Lo: ‘Turandot’ auf der Opernbühne (Frankfurt, 1996)
S. Nicassio: Tosca’s Rome: the Opera and the Play in Historical Perspective (Chicago, 1998)