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Puccini: Beyond 'Butterfly' and 'Bohème'

By PHILIP KENNICOTT

When Mary Jane Phillips-Matz published her one-volume biography of Giuseppe Verdi in 1993, it stood several inches thick. It was a major scholarly achievement. Now she is back with a much slenderer volume, Puccini: A Biography (Northeastern University Press, 2002), on the composer who inherited from Verdi the Italian operatic mantle.

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