A detailed investigation of the reception and cultural contexts of
Puccini's music, this book offers a fresh view of this historically
important but frequently overlooked composer. Wilson's study
explores the ways in which Puccini's music and persona were held up
as both the antidote to and the embodiment of the decadence widely
felt to be afflicting late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
Italy, a nation which although politically unified remained
culturally divided. The book focuses upon two central, related
questions that were debated throughout Puccini's career: his status
as a national or international composer, and his status as a
traditionalist or modernist. In addition, Wilson examines how
Puccini's operas became caught up in a wide range of extra-musical
controversies concerning such issues as gender and class. This book
makes a major contribution to our understanding of both the history
of opera and of the wider artistic and intellectual life of
turn-of-the-century Italy.
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