Giacomo Puccini
1858 – 1924 · Italian · 8 operas in the catalogue
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria 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. 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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Operas in the Opera Almanac Catalogue
- 1884 Le Villi, 1884 Italian
- 1889 Edgar, 1889 Italian
- 1896 La bohème, 1896 Italian
- 1910 La fanciulla del West, 1910 Italian
- 1917 La rondine, 1917 Italian
- 1918 Gianni Schicchi, 1918 Italian
- 1918 Il tabarro, 1918 Italian
- 1918 Il trittico, 1918 Italian