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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.
- 29 November 1924 (aged 65), Brussels, Belgium
- List of compositions
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May 8, 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
Jun 6, 2023 · What is Giacomo Puccini best known for? Giacomo Puccini is best known for being a composer of operas, notably, La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. What is Puccini's most famous piece? Giacomo Puccini's most famous individual pieces of music include Nessun Dorma from Turandot and O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi.
- Mark Cartwright
Apr 2, 2014 · Best Known For: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini started the operatic trend toward realism with popular works such as 'La Bohème' and 'Madama Butterfly.' Industries; Opera
- 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.’
Career highlights. The first notable operas by Puccini are widley considered to be Le Vili, Manon Lescaut, Edgar – all written and performed within about thirteen years after he finished at the Milan Conservatory. Next – came his four-act opera, La bohème, which to this day is one of the world’s most popular operas.
Feb 15, 2022 · Now widely considered the ‘heir’ of Verdi, Puccini is known as one of the great composers of Italian opera. While his early work is traditional, late-19th-century Romantic Italian opera, Puccini became better known for writing in the verismo style – Italian for ‘realism’.
