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Steve Schwartz wrote:
> The Puccini Problem:
> Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity
> Alexandra Wilson
> Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press. 2007. 321 pp.
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> Wilson has not written a book for the faint of heart. It reads like a
> reworked Ph.D. thesis.
That's what it is, all right. University of London. Original subtitle
is "Nationalism, Gender and Decadence in Italian Puccini Reception."
> one of my favorite music critics refers to "melodies cheaper than
> Puccini," and Joseph Kerman famously called Tosca "a shabby little
> shocker."
Even Britten recoiled at the suggestion that any of his music might in
any way resemble Puccini's. (Mentioned somewhere in Humphrey Carpenter's
biography of Britten.)
Jim Tobin
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