Die kleinen Gärten des Maestro Puccini

Puccini composed immortal music and created unforgettable female characters. In real life, he was also an obsessive lover of women: legendary is the trial that was initiated when Puccini's wife Elvira suspected the maid Doria of having an affair with her husband. However, he was only involved with her cousin. Doria, who admires Puccini above all else, is driven to the brink of despair. Helmut Krausser narrates the life of the brilliant erotomaniac through the lens of three women, unfolding an exciting panorama of the final phase of the Belle Époque around the figure of today's most popular opera composer, along with an incredible, often bizarre web of art and success, love and desire, envy and intrigue, jealousy and hatred.