Lives in Song: Puccini – EPISODE 2 – “Le Willis”

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Flora is joined by Puccini expert Alexandra Wilson, author of The Puccini Problem: Opera, Nationalism, and Modernity and an edited collection, Puccini in Context, to explore the fascinating story behind Giacomo Puccini’s debut opera, Le Willis (“The Fairies”). The work received an enthusiastic reception in 1884, but even with Puccini’s musical lineage in Lucca, the journey to this early success in Milan—one of Europe’s operatic capitals—was anyth...

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