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Puccinian, a.|puːˈtʃiːnɪən| [-an.] Of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the works of the Italian operatic composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924).
1942Scrutiny XI. 74 We have an exquisitely sensitive line which, the antithesis of Puccinian or Wagnerian hysteria, is almost French and Chausson-like in its delicacy. 1958Listener 20 Nov. 850/3 The cardboard figures of Puccinian melodrama. 1962Times 26 Jan. 16/4 He does not allow them much..Puccinian nobility of soul. 1978Gramophone Jan. 1289/2 On the Italian front, Tebaldi is dominant, giving good, cleanly sung, quite committed versions of several famous Puccinian passages. So Pucciniˈesque a., resembling the style of Puccini's works.
1927Sunday Express 19 June 10/4 Yet Tom Burke has sung only once—in ‘Rigoletto’, which does not give him emotional scope, for he is a tenor of the voluptuously Pucciniesque type. 1961Times 6 Dec. 17/6 As to Pucciniesque lyric passages, tender feelings are unmistakably clear when set to that kind of music. |