Oh my beloved Puccini, another book on puccini? no

The reading reported this week in the book section, One book, two minutes on Radio Lady (97.7 fm, spread throughout the central and western Tuscany, and streaming) is Oh my beloved Puccini (O mio Puccini caro)written by Cerrone Virginia.

The title does not deceive you, this is not a biography nor a volume of celebration of Puccini, despite its publication by Editions Cinquestampe at the 150th anniversary of his birth. The figure of the great composer appears in the story, or rather his tunes that are the soundtrack to the love story, the central theme of the book.

To this add the ad hoc environment, the facts narrated are held at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, and the name of the protagonist, Liù. And if not maybe more to say anything, opera lovers will remember the slave of Turandot. So a book that speaks of Puccini through the back door, the notes of his most famous melodies, so beautiful that they make people fall in love ...