Maynooth University Department of Music

Co-authored with Alessandra Campana, the book chapter ‘Puccini’s Things: Materials and Media in Il trittico’ has just been published in Giacomo Puccini and His World, ed. Arman Schwartz and Emanuele Senici (Princeton University Press, 2016). Morris and Campana explore the peculiarly modern materialism of Puccini’s late operas, arguing that Il trittico (1918) marks a turn from a nineteenth-century conception of opera and theatre to one in which media and ‘things’ assume a new value and autonomy.