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Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer who lived from 1858 to 1924 and is best known for creating operas that became beloved classics. His works remain important in opera today because of their memorable melodies and emotional appeal to audiences worldwide.
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Person
- Born
- 1858-12-22
- Died
- 1924-11-29
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Sound · Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Known for
- Madama Butterfly — Composer2024
- Royal Opera House: Turandot — Self - Composer2013
- Royal Opera House: Tosca — Self - Composer2011
- Royal Opera House: La Bohème — Self - Composer2009
- La Boheme — Self - Composer1988
- Omnibus — Self1967
- Un giorno con Puccini1915
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- Person
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- IT
- Active from
- 1858-12-22
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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) 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 developed in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.
His most renowned works are La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and the unfinished Turandot (1926, posthumously completed by Franco Alfano), all of which are among the most frequently performed and recorded in the entirety of the operatic repertoire.
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