Vissi d’arte: Puccini and Decadence by Prof. Maria Frendo

Vissi d’arte: Puccini and Decadence explores four of Puccini’s most celebrated operas—La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot—through an interdisciplinary lens that brings together literary and musicological scholarship. This integrated approach is a hallmark of Prof. Maria Frendo’s research and is further distinguished here by a sustained examination of the ways in which the theme of decadence permeates Puccini’s operatic oeuvre.