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Giacomo Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late-Baroque era.
Jun 27, 2024 · Giacomo Puccini (born December 22, 1858, Lucca, Tuscany [Italy]—died November 29, 1924, Brussels, Belgium) was an Italian composer, one of the greatest exponents of operatic realism, who virtually brought the history of Italian opera to an end.
- Claudio Sartori
Apr 2, 2014 · Italian composer Giacomo Puccini started the operatic trend toward realism with popular works such as 'La Bohème' and 'Madama Butterfly.'
Jun 6, 2023 · Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was an Italian composer best known for his operas La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. Puccini drew inspiration from a wide range of literary sources, and his late Romantic music with its immortal melodies emphasised the strong characters, drama, and fast pace of his emotional operas, which remain today ...
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- Gianni Schicchi. Gianni Schicchi takes place in 13th-century Florence, and the story was derived from a passage in Dante’s Inferno. In Puccini’s only comedy Gianni Schicchi is asked to fix a will on behalf of a family so that they inherit, but instead cunningly makes himself and his daughter the sole beneficiaries.
- La Bohème. La Bohème’s story of young artists living hand-to-mouth in 1830s Paris was not so distant from the composer’s own student experiences in Milan.
- La Fanciulla Del West (‘The Girl Of The Golden West’) La Fanciulla Del West (‘The Girl of the Golden West’) was commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera, New York.
- La Rondine (‘The Swallow’) Gentle domestic comedy The Swallow finds Puccini at his most emotionally deft and skillful, composing with a masterly fastidiousness that spills over in the unforgettable ‘Chi Il Belsogno Di Doretta.’
Feb 15, 2022 · Best Puccini operas – from Turandot to Tosca. Picture: Alamy. From ‘Tosca’ to ‘Turandot’, we explore Italian composer Giacomo Puccini’s greatest operas. When it comes to tragic opera and heart-wrenching arias, it has to be Giacomo Puccini.
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Born into a family of musicians and composers, Giacomo Puccini became the leading Italian composer of his generation. Puccini’s operas are among the most frequently performed and best-loved operas in the entire repertoire and include La bohème, Tosca and Madam Butterfly (Madama Butterfly).
