In bookstores ‘Puccini 100 years’ by Maurizio Sessa

It was released in bookstores, in time for the celebration of the centenary of the death of the great composer and opera composer which falls on November 29, 2024, ‘Puccini 100 years – Sentimental journey from Lucca to the world‘ Of Maurizio Sessajournalist and writer passionate about Puccini. The volume is aimed at both the general public and those more familiar with Puccini and proposes a path based on the main and most up-to-date contributions on the subject, to the discovery of a man and an artist who in many ways still remain to be discovered, at the center , as already in life, of a hagiographic journalism characterized by many and too many anecdotes of questionable reliability.

Puccini is among the most sought-after composers today. It runs, holds its own, sells out theaters. Sessa’s book reveals a twice-unpublished Puccini. A rediscovered commemoration of Rito Selvaggi, and until now never published, a Puccinian relegated to oblivion: a conference held in Switzerland in May 1926, a month after the debut of the unfinished Turandot, held by d’Annunzio’s traveling companion in River entitled “Puccini and twentieth-century Italian music”. And, as if that weren’t enough, many important documents, letters and iconographic testimonies never seen before, linked to the figure and work of the great composer from Lucca whose centenary of death this year marks.

The publication by Maurizio Sessa, with an informative approach but attentive to the best results of today’s criticism, has as its photographic complement a large iconographic section, around 150 images, reproducing images and documents that come from the Author’s collection. An immersion in the collective imagination that will bring back the image of the Maestro Lucchese which is in some ways unprecedented and captivating.

By Editor