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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 14, 2024 · Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer, one of the greatest exponents of operatic realism, who virtually brought the history of Italian opera to an end. His mature operas included La Boheme (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot (left incomplete).
- Claudio Sartori
Apr 2, 2014 · Learn about the life and works of Giacomo Puccini, one of the most influential Italian composers of opera. Discover his popular and realistic operas such as La Bohème, Madama Butterfly and Tosca, as well as his personal scandals and tragic death.
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 ...
- Mark Cartwright
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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 · Learn about Giacomo Puccini, one of the greatest composers of Italian opera, and his 12 operas, from La bohème to Turandot. Discover his most famous arias, such as 'Che gelida manina', 'Vissi d'arte' and 'O mio babbino caro'.
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Learn about the life and works of Giacomo Puccini, the leading Italian composer of his generation and creator of La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly. Explore his musical style, influence, songs and operas in this comprehensive guide from ENO.
