The Puccini family was established in Lucca as a local musical dynasty by Puccini's great-great-grandfather – also named Giacomo (1712–1781). [3][4] This first Giacomo Puccini, though often …

Dec 18, 2025 · Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) was an Italian composer who was one of the greatest exponents of operatic realism. He virtually brought the history of Italian opera to an end.

Giacomo Puccini was born in Lucca on 22 December, 1858, the last of a dynasty of composers who for more than a century held a virtual monopoly of the city’s musical life.

Dec 22, 2025 · The best Puccini works feature 10 masterpieces by the great composer including ‘La Bohème', 'Tosca', 'Madama Butterfly,' and 'Turandot'.

Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is one of opera’s most popular composers. His operas are famed worldwide for the drama and pathos of their plots, for their wonderful melodies and for the wealth of …

Puccini was suddenly established as a wealthy composer and artistic successor to Maestro Giuseppi Verdi. The two operas that followed, La Boheme and Tosca, achieved success gradually, with …

Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858 in Lucca, Italy, to a family of organists (his father was a notorious theoretician and music teacher). A performance of Verdi's Aida, which he saw in Pisa in 1876, …

Learn more about Giacomo Puccini and his life in this guide, which shares some of Puccini’s best-known operas, most respected compositions and more about his life.

Puccini made ends meet by giving piano lessons and submitting work to music competitions. His first stage work, La Ville, was initially submitted to a Casa Musicale Sonzogno opera competition with …

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.