Puccini's 'Turandot' : The End of the Great Tradition

Debly, Patricia, Canadian University Music Review

William Ashbrook and Harold Powers. Puccini's 'Turandot' : The End of the Great Tradition. Princeton Studies in Opera. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. x, 193 pp. ISBN 0-691-09137-4 (cloth), 0-691-02712-9 (paper).

For more than a decade scholars, students, and connoisseurs of opera have been able to consult two series of books on opera: the Opera Guides in association with the English National Opera and Royal Opera (Calder Publishers) and the Cambridge Opera Handbooks (Cambridge University Press). To date, both series have focused on the major works in the repertoire, devoting an entire volume to one opera, with discographies and bibliographies for further study. Here …

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Publication information: Article title: Puccini's 'Turandot' : The End of the Great Tradition. Contributors: Debly, Patricia - Author. Journal title: Canadian University Music Review. Volume: 13. Publication date: January 1, 1993. Page number: 165+. © Canadian University Music Society 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. All Rights Reserved.

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