| Giacomo Puccini |
| Operas Complete list: Le Villi (1884-05-31 Teatro dal Verme, Milan) Le Villi [rev] (1884-12-26 Teatro Regio, Turin) Edgar (1889-04-21 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Edgar [rev] (1892-02-28 Teatro Communale, Ferrara) Manon Lescaut (1893-02-01 Teatro Regio, Turin) La Boh�me (1896-02-01 Teatro Regio, Turin) Tosca (1900-01-14 Teatro Costanzi, Rome) Madama Butterfly (1904-02-17 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) Madama Butterfly [rev] (1904-05-28 Teatro Grande, Brescia) Edgar [rev 2] (1905-07-08 Teatro Col�n?, Buenos Aires) Madama Butterfly [rev 2] (1905-07-10 Covent Garden, London) Madama Butterfly [rev 3] (1905-12-28 Op�ra Comique, Paris) La Fanciulla del West (1910-12-10 Metropolitan Opera, New York) La Rondine (1917-03-27 Op�ra, Monte Carlo) Il Trittico (1918-12-14 Metropolitan Opera, New York): Il tabarro Suor Angelica Gianni Schicchi Turandot (1926-04-25 Teatro alla Scala, Milan) (unfinished at Puccini's death in 1924), La Scala, Milan, 25 April 1926 (completed by Franco Alfano) (Source) |
| The composer himself proclaimed, "The only music I can make is that of small things," although he admired the grander stylistic abilities of Verdi and Wagner. Despite that admiration, Puccini chose to concentrate on life's familiar bittersweet passions and intense emotional storms. (Source) |
| It was Toscanini who conducted the famous opening night of Madama Butterfly , which ran in its original form for that one performance only. After serious reworking, including changing the basic framework from two acts to three and replacing some objectionable arias with more melodic ones, Butterfly triumphed in a new opening under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. (Source) |
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| 1858 - 1924 |
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