Michael Kaye

Michael Kaye (January 4, 1948 – August 27, 2023) was an eminent American musicologist who was famously awarded the Luigi Illica Prize for contributions to the study of Giacomo Puccini’s works. Kaye is one of the leading authorities on the great Italian opera composer whose editions of Puccini’s songs have been recorded by Plácido Domingo and Kiri Te-Kanawa. His reconstructions of the different versions of Madama Butterfly have been recorded and staged by opera companies in the United States and Europe. Mr. Kaye is the co-author of the English translation of the most recent, comprehensive Giacomo Puccini Catalogue of the Works. A member of the Istituto di Studi Pucciniani (which was founded by the composer’s granddaughter, Simonetta Puccini), Mr. Kaye has served on the music staff of the Metropolitan Opera, and has edited the landmark edition of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann, based on more than 350 pages of previously unknown autograph manuscripts. LudwigMasters publishes many of Michael Kaye’s most important editions, including Puccini Rediscovered, which contains works by Puccini that have never before been published, or were published so long ago they had nearly lapsed into obscurity.

Arrangements:

• 1871/2006 A906302 – Aida: Sinfonia (original version) [Kaye Critical ed.]
• 1889/1892/2004 A904402 – Edgar, SC 62: Act I, Prelude [1892 version]
• 1880/2005 M391491 – Havanaise Variee (Theme populaire), VWV 1019 (C Major)
• 1842/2007 M401691 – Inspirations Viennoises (Ispirazioni viennesi), A 218-224
• 1882/2005 A904602 – Preludio Sinfonico (Symphonic Prelude) in A, S.32
• 2005 M379891 – Puccini Rediscovered: Arias and Ensembles, Vol. 1
• 2004 M394791 – Puccini Rediscovered: Arias and Ensembles, Vol. 2
• 2006 M396491 – Puccini Rediscovered: Arias and Ensembles, Vol. 3
• 2004 M376891 – Puccini Rediscovered: Complete Works
• 2004 M376491 – Puccini Rediscovered: Six Songs for Solo or Duo Voice(s) and Piano
• 2005 M382791 – Puccini Rediscovered: String Quartets, Vol. 1
• 2006 M392791 – Puccini Rediscovered: String Quartets, Vol. 2
• 1849/2007 M402791 – Reverie au bord de la mer (Reverie by the Sea; Andante A. 155)
• 1917/1920/2006 A915502 – Rondine, La (The Swallow): Parigi! E la Citta dei Desideri (Romanza di Ruggero; second version, 1920)
• 1918/2010 A915402 – Suor Angelica: Amici fiori (Original and Revised Versions of the Abandoned Aria for Angelica)