Set in the days of the California Gold Rush, La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) is a staple of the repertoire, filled with dramatic touches, much lyric beauty and brilliant orchestration. Its dramatic scale and harmonic and melodic inventiveness foreshadow the remarkable originality and audacity of Puccini's great last opera, Turandot.
La Boheme in Full Score by Giacomo Puccini Authoritative Italian edition of one of the world's most beloved operas. Sturdy, attractive volume reprints every note of Puccini's masterpiece, based on Murger's novel. English translations of list of characters and instruments.
Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini Widely admired for its melodic richness and glorious orchestral scoring, Madama Butterfly ranks as one of the greatest favorites of the operatic repertoire. It is reprinted here complete and unabridged from the authoritative G. Ricordi edition.