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  2. List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini - Wikipedia

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    The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is regarded as the natural successor to the tradition of Giuseppe Verdi and is considered the greatest Italian opera proponent of his time. Best known for his 12 operas , his style quickly departed from the predominant Romantic Italian style and he emerged as the most significant representative ...

  3. Giacomo Puccini - Wikipedia

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    Giacomo Puccini [n 1] (22 December 1858 – 29 November 1924) [1] was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas.Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, [2] he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era.

  4. Verismo - Wikipedia

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    Giacomo Puccini, one of the composers most closely associated with verismo. Cavelleria Rusticana, considered the first Verismo opera Pagliacci is a famous Verismo opera. In opera, verismo (Italian for 'realism'), from vero, meaning 'true', was a post-Romantic operatic tradition associated with Italian composers such as Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano, Francesco Cilea and ...

  5. List of prominent operas - Wikipedia

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    1900 Tosca (Giacomo Puccini). Tosca is the most Wagnerian of Puccini's operas, with its frequent use of leitmotif. [59] 1901 Rusalka (Antonín Dvořák). Dvořák's most successful opera with international audiences, based on a folk tale about a water sprite. [154] 1902 Adriana Lecouvreur (Francesco Cilea). Unique among Cilea's operas in that ...

  6. Tosca - Wikipedia

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    Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. . The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic piece set in Rome in June 1800, with the Kingdom of Naples's control of Rome threatened by Napoleon's invasion of It

  7. List of major opera composers - Wikipedia

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    Among his most famous works are Nabucco, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La traviata, Don Carlos, Aida, and Otello. [33] Charles Gounod (1818–1893) Wrote lyrical operas on literary themes, including Roméo et Juliette and Mireille. His Faust still holds the stage today, [29] in spite of criticisms of its "Victorianism".

  8. Category:Compositions by Giacomo Puccini - Wikipedia

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    Operas by Giacomo Puccini (2 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Compositions by Giacomo Puccini" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total.

  9. Il trittico - Wikipedia

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    Il trittico (The Triptych) is the title of a collection of three one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi, by Giacomo Puccini. The work received its world premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on 14 December 1918.