In a lively exploration of Jacques Offenbach's final masterpiece, Heather Hadlock shows howLes Contes d'Hoffmann summed up not only the composer's career but also a century of Romantic culture. A stra
Unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924, Turandot was not only his most ambitious work, but it became the last Italian opera to enter the international repertory. In this colorful study two renowned mus