id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 43873 Dry, Wakeling Giacomo Puccini .txt text/plain 31584 1586 72 Puccini's musical expression, at first purely vocal, to play a little of the music he thought of putting in the new opera. the production of a new play or musical piece, it is little short of Puccini's _Manon_--music and story, for it is impossible to separate In Puccini's opera we find after the meeting of Manon and Des Grieux at little musical dialogue, which Puccini always expresses so dramatically into an expressive little duet, in which Manon longs for Des Grieux's Since _Manon_ was the work by which Puccini's operatic music was first In the pastoral music at the opening of the third act Puccini uses with about this time said of the work: "As an opera, it would be in one act A little time after this Puccini heard With this last opera of Puccini we come to the end of the chapter, and ./cache/43873.txt ./txt/43873.txt