A previously unknown manuscript in the Puccini Archive in Torre del Lago was identified as the autograph score of the Preludio a Orchestra – and it turned out to be complete! The fourteen missing measures have been copied from this source, so that the complete Preludio can now be performed in its original form.
A scholarly-critical edition of the works of Giacomo Puccini has been published by Carus since 2012. The Edizione Nazionale is published by the international research institute Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini.
A conference report on the Puccini Symposium on 16 January 2024 on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of the well-known Stuttgart Puccini researcher Dieter Schickling: about Schickling’s spirit of research, the cooperation of Carus with the Edizione Nazionale and the Centro Studi as well as plans for new research and editions.
A conversation with Gabriella Biagi Ravenni and Virgilio Bernardoni about the “Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Giacomo Puccini” – on challenges, achievements and their very personal view of the composer.
Carus editor Guido Johannes Joerg sheds light on an impressive church music tradition: Italian church music of the 19th century.
Music, Italy, wine … anyone who loves all these things shouldn’t miss Puccini’s Messa a 4 voci con orchestra (Messa di Gloria). Puccini was occasionally criticized for composing “simply”, yet it is often forgotten how long he struggled with subject matter. Despite this the Messa di Gloria is a work which any choral director is grateful for.
