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Last Word on Puccini: The Complete Operas
By Daniel Felsenfeld
I could just go on and on about Puccini, because I think he’s weirdly underrated (despite being one of the more performed composers in the world). He’s given short shrift by the more “serious” among us as a composer of “shabby little shockers,” of over-the-top melodramas. But I’ve always thought of him as [...]
More on Puccini: The Complete Operas
By Daniel Felsenfeld
Like I said before, I am one of those people who loves a series, a complete edition, a one-stop-shopping experience. So the Puccini: Complete Operas box is really something because you can get all of Puccini’s fantastic operas in one place, almost his entire life’s work (minus his exquisite Mass, but I’ll not [...]
Fanciulla from Puccini: The Complete Operas
By Daniel Felsenfeld
How weird is Puccini’s opera La Fanciulla del West (which translates roughly as “Girl of the Golden West”). I mean, its an Italian’s Frenchfied approach to the Wild Wild West. It is hard for us Americans (or certainly for this American), whose cowboys and swinging saloon doors are part of our own mythology, [...]