Last Acts 
Subtitle: The Operas of Puccini and his Italian Contemporaries
Publisher: Opera Companion Publications
Published: March 1, 2000
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9780967660431
Subjects: Music / Opera; 1858-1924; Music; Opera, Italian; Operas; Puccini, Giacomo,
First sentence: WELCOME to a fascinating period in Italian opera-a time of imaginative innovative and experimentation, a time that has come to be called the grand finale of the Italian lyric theatre, the "last acts" before the catastrophes of Fascism and World War II.