Foreword, by William Ashbrook
Preface to the English Edition
Note on Editions
Note on the Musical Examples
List of Abbreviations
1. Dynasty of Composers
2. Scapigliatura Interlude
3. Manon Lescaut: Wagner and the Eighteenth Century
4. La Bohème: The Poetic Reality
5. Tosca: Rome between Faith and Power
6. Madama Butterfly: An Exotic Tragedy
7. Puccini in the Twentieth Century
8. Wars, à la Operetta
9. Experimental Dramaturgy
10. Turandot!
Catalog of Works
Selected Bibliography
Index