Puccini

But one hundred years later, producers still scoff at Jules Massenet’s work

Rufus Wainwright takes on his critics from the concert stage

Decca is calling their new 11-CD collection “Puccini: The Definitive Collection,” but really it’s a tribute to the label’s superstar, the late Luciano Pavarotti: remastered, repackaged recordings of five Puccini operas, recorded at different times in different places, but all of them starring Pavarotti.

Too much action. Not enough dialogue.