18 Aug 2008

Puccini at 150, Still Capable of Revelations

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/17/arts/music/17tomm.html?_r=1&ref=music&oref=slogin

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI [NY Times, 15 August 2008]

WHEN Giacomo Puccini died at 65 in 1924, he left behind an estate estimated in today’s currency at roughly $250 million. Has any living classical composer come close to amassing such a fortune?