Giacomo Puccini

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. But out Of something dead, something very much alive was destined to develop. The Old Greek drama was not to be resuscitated by a sort of transfusion of blood - music, the newest and most emotional of the arts, being the medium to carry life into the structure. There is not space here to do more than hint at the various fresh phases - the reforms, as they have been called - each Of which, in trying to deal with what was already built up, really brought to an achievement the ideal which had floated before many a worker in the same field.