Publisher's Synopsis
This is a spin-off from the Verdi Section in The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, this concise volume is a handy guide to the composer's life and operas, with a new secion on modern Puccini prodcutions. Helen Greenwald imporves upon a classic volume with a new preface, new section on modern-day Verdi productions, suggested listening guide, revised biograpical information on Puccini, and additional photographs. This book is perfect for the frequent opera-goer. The fourth volume in a new series on major composers and their operas, The New Grove Guide to Verdi and His Operas will be a revised and redesigned paperback edition of the cloth edition edited by Stanley Sadie originally published by St. Martin's (US) and Grove (UK). Helen Greenwald, an opera expert currently working for the New Englad Conservatory, will contribute a new preface, a new section on modern Puccini productions, condense the Literary Figures section into short essay, add a Suggested Listening Guide, and 6 new photos of current productions of Puccini's operas, and provide a revised Bibiography. Overall this will be a concise guide to Puccini's life and operas, providing a chronology and survey of his life and work, as well as discussion and synopses of his operas.
