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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Widely 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. Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-nineteenth-century Romantic Italian opera, it later d…
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Born 22 December 1858 · Died 29 November 1924 · Q7311
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2026· 6 entries
Mshale: Puccini: Turandot - Tu, Che Di Gel Sei Cinta - Mafalda Favero, Soprano Cason Wallace (FmDemEg4Bu)
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Jazz: Giacomo Puccini discography
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The Guardian: Tosca review – Puccini’s high-octane bloodbath bonanza makes for a shocking festival kick-off
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The Guardian: The first performance of Puccini’s Turandot – archive, 1926
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The Guardian: La Bohème review – boutique modern-day Puccini travels to gentrified Hackney in good voice
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2025· 3 entries
The Guardian: La Rondine review – new version of Puccini’s opera makes aftertaste bitter rather than sweet
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MutualArt.com: Giacomo Puccini
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Wall Street Journal: Giacomo Puccini’s ‘La Bohème’: Why This Opera Endures
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: Puccini: Symphonic Suites album review – Carlo Rizzi celebrates an opera giant’s genius
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The Guardian: An opera to float your boat: Sydney to be treated to free Puccini at Darling Harbour
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2016· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: Giacomo Puccini: Controversial Composer?
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2007· 1 entry
Documents were found in the possession of Nadia Manfredi, a descendant of the Manfredi family, which indicated that Puccini was actually having an affair with Giulia Manfredi, Doria's cousin
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2004· 1 entry
By the singer and director Harry Dunstan
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1996· 1 entry
In Lucca, the Centro di studi Giacomo Puccini embraces a wide range of approaches to the study of Puccini's work
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1994· 6 entries
Released album “Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy: My Favorite Puccini”.
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Released album “Discovering Opera 18: Turandot (Highlights)”.
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Released album “Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy: My Favorite Moments From La bohème”.
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Released album “La bohème (highlights)”.
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Released album “Il trittico”.
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Released album “Orchestral Works”.
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1993· 3 entries
Released album “Puccini Favourites”.
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Released album “Mad about Puccini”.
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Released album “Madama Butterfly: Opernhighlight”.
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1992· 6 entries
Released album “Madam Butterfly (Highlights) (Sung in English)”.
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Released album “Tosca: Great Operas at the Met”.
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Released album “Turandot (Highlights)”.
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Released album “Puccini: Tosca”.
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Released album “Il trittico: Il tabarro / Suor Angelica / Gianni Schicchi”.
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Released album “Puccini-Gala”.
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1991· 4 entries
Released album “Manon Lescaut”.
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Released album “La bohème”.
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Released album “Opera Arias & Duets”.
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Released album “The Early Recordings”.
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1990· 2 entries
Released album “Tosca”.
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Released album “Arias from Operas by G. Verdi, G. Puccini”.
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1989· 1 entry
Released album “Puccini and Verdi Arias”.
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1988· 6 entries
Released album “La fanciulla del West”.
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Released album “Bloch: Concerto Grosso no. 1 / Barber: Adagio for Strings, op. 11 / Grieg: Holberg Suite, op. 40 / Puccini: Crisantemi”.
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Released album “Tosca – Highlights”.
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Released album “Suor Angelica”.
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Released album “Arias and Duets”.
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Released album “Airs d’Opéras”.
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1987· 3 entries
Released album “Messa di Gloria / Preludio sinfonico / Capriccio sinfonico”.
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Released album “Madama Butterfly”.
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Released album “Puccini Songs & Other Rare Pieces”.
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1986· 1 entry
Released album “Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Highlights)”.
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1984· 1 entry
Released album “Messa di Gloria”.
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1983· 4 entries
Released album “La rondine”.
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Released album “Kiri Te Kanawa: Verdi & Puccini”.
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Released album “Favorite Arias and Love Duets”.
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Released album “Gianni Schicchi”.
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1977· 1 entry
Released album “Presenting Sylvia Sass (Opera's Sensational New Star)”.
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1973· 1 entry
Released album “Turandot”.
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1972· 1 entry
Released album “Un opéra à l'orchestre - La Bohême de Puccini à l'orchestre”.
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1971· 1 entry
Released album “Il tabarro (Remastered)”.
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Monsterrat Caballé: Puccini Arias”.
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1967· 1 entry
Released album “Puccini Spectacular: Opera for Orchestra”.
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1956· 1 entry
Released album “Madama Butterfly Abridged”.
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1953· 1 entry
Released album “Tosca (Complete Recording)”.
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1926· 1 entry
On the 2nd anniversary of his death, his son arranged to transfer his father's remains to a specially created chapel inside the Puccini villa at Torre del Lago
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1925· 1 entry
Puccini was no longer alive when Mussolini announced the end of representative government and the beginning of a fascist dictatorship, in his speech before the Chamber of Deputies on 3 January 1925.
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1924· 3 entries
Died 1924-11-29.
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Career landmark: senator of the Kingdom of Italy (1924–1924).
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“La soledad es tan ancha como el mar; es tan lisa como un lago; tan negra como la noche y tan verde como el bilis. Mi indecisión actual me deja exhausto, me agobia, me irrita y me deprime....”
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1923· 2 entries
Puccini met with Mussolini twice, in November and December 1923, seeking support for the theatre project.
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The Fascist Party in Viareggio made Puccini an honorary member and sent him a membership card
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1919· 1 entry
Puccini was commissioned to write music to an ode by Fausto Salvatori honouring Italy's victories in World War I
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1918· 1 entry
Il trittico ("The Triptych") premiered in New York
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1916· 1 entry
After two years of work, and it was premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on 27 March 1917
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1915· 1 entry
(although the contract was ultimately cancelled)
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1914· 1 entry
Puccini's long-standing and close friendship with Toscanini was interrupted for nearly a decade because of an argument in the summer of 1914 (in the opening months of the war) during which Puccini remarked that Italy could benefit from German organization.
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1913· 1 entry
Puccini was also criticized during the war for his work on La rondine under a 1913 commission contract with an Austrian theater after Italy and Austria-Hungary became opponents in the war in 1915 (although the contract was ultimately cancelled).
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1912· 1 entry
The death of Giulio Ricordi, Puccini's editor and publisher, ended a productive period of his career
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1909· 1 entry
Puccini's wife Elvira publicly accused Doria Manfredi, a maid working for the Puccini family, of having an affair with the composer
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1907· 1 entry
Puccini made his final revisions to the opera in a fifth version, which has become known as the "standard version"
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1906· 2 entries
Giacosa died and, in 1909, there was a scandal after Puccini's wife, Elvira, falsely accused their maid Doria Manfredi of having an affair with Puccini
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While attending the opening of Madama Butterfly in Budapest, Puccini fell in love with Blanke Lendvai, the sister of Hungarian composer Ervin Lendvai (his friend and protégé for many years)
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1901· 1 entry
And 1905, but the work never achieved popularity
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1894· 1 entry
George Bernard Shaw pronounced: "Puccini looks to me more like the heir of Verdi than any of his rivals
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1892· 1 entry
Further revisions reduced the length of the opera from four acts to three, in a version that was well received in Ferrara and was performed in Turin and in Spain
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1890· 1 entry
With the first performance of Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana, peaked in the early 1900s, and lingered into the 1920s
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1889· 2 entries
When he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: "I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle,
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Was notably won by Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana
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1884· 1 entry
When Fontana began working out the scenario for the libretto
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1880· 1 entry
Puccini achieved a diploma from Lucca's Pacini School of Music, having studied there with Magi, and later with Carlo Angeloni, who had also instructed Alfredo Catalani
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1864· 2 entries
With the Puccini family having occupied the position of maestro di cappella for 124 years (1740–1864) by the time of Michele's death, it was anticipated that Michele's son Giacomo would occupy that position as well when he was old enough.
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Giacomo was only six years old and thus incapable of assuming his father's post
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1858· 1 entry
Born 1858-12-22.
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