is the fi rst volume of the series “The operas of Giacomo Puccini” - Critical Edition - in collaboration with Archivio storico Ricordi and Fondazione Simonetta Puccini.

It makes available the three main versions of the opera thathave survived in various sources: an 1893 version, with the original Act I finale, the fi rst version of Manon’s Act IV aria, and the uncut version of the fi nal duet in Act IV; a “midcareer” version imagined by Puccini in the fi rst decade of the...