- Greenwald, Helen M. “Recent Puccini Research.” AM65 (1993): 23–50.
A useful guide to Puccini scholarship, presenting major writings in 10 cate-
gories. Disputes over the importance and value of the operas began as they
were first appearing and have continued into a second century. Greenwald’s
authoritative commentary is not well supported by the bibliographical style of
entry, which gives only initials instead of first names of authors and omits pub-
lishers from imprint data for books.
Conferences
1439.Esotismo e colore locale nell’opera di Puccini. Atti del Primo Convegno Inter-
nazionale sull’Opera di Giacomo Puccini.Ed. Jürgen Maehder. Pisa: Giardini,
1985.
The theme of exoticism is traced by 19 papers, not only about Turandotbut
also on Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, and La fanciulla del West. Con-
tents in Fairtile (#1437), item 669.- Cancelled entry.
1441.Giacomo Puccini: L’uomo, il musicista, il panorama europeo. Atti del Con-
vegno Internationale di Studi... Lucca, 25–29 novembre 1994.Ed. Gabriella
Biagi Ravenni and Carolyn Gianturco. Lucca: Libreria Musicale Italiana, - xii, 596p. ISBN 88-7096-166-4. ML410 .P97 C668.
Consists of 27 papers from the conference. Separate entries appear in this sec-
tion for Julian Budden on leading motives (#1460), Helen Greenwald on
rhythm (#1463), William Ashbrook on revisions of Butterfly(#1480), Suzanne
Scherr on genesis of Manon Lescaut(#1486), Deborah Burton on Tristanisms
in Tosca(#1494), Michele Bianchi on unity in Il trittico (#1497), Kii-Ming Lo
on drafts of Turandot (#1504), and Harold Powers on tonal relations in
Turandot(#1507). Other papers are listed in Fairtile (#1437), item 682.
Fairtile gives contents of many other conferences in her “Collective Volumes” chapter.
Collections of Essays
1442.The Puccini Companion. Ed. William Weaver and Simonetta Puccini. New
York: Norton, 1994. 436p. ISBN 0-393-02930-1. ML410 .P89 W3.
Consists of 18 essays. These are entered separately in this section: William
Weaver on the heroines (#1461), Arthur Groos on the genesis of Butterfly
(#1481), Leonardo Pinzauti on Il trittico(#1500), and William Ashbrook on
La rondine(#1489). Other papers are listed in Fairtile (#1437), item 677.
A number of other collections are listed, with contents, in Fairtile’s chapter,
“Collective Volumes.” Included there are Puccini volumes of ASO,COH, and
ENOG, as well as issues of Quaderni pucciniani(next entry).Periodicals
1443.Quaderni pucciniani, v.1–, 1982–. Milan: Istituto di Studi Pucciniani, 1982–.
Irregular. ML410 .P97Q33.
Four volumes have been seen: 1982, 1985, 1992, and 1996. Contents of all
four are in Fairtile (#1437), items 664, 672, 676, and 681.Giacomo Puccini 275