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Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer who was extremely popular during the romantic period. His work is known for its place in the operatic tradition of verismo, a style of dramatic naturalism on the operatic stage found in the work of such composers as Pietro Mascagni, Umberto Giordano, and Francesco Cilea. His operas include such canonical works as La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot.

Puccini was born in Lucca, Italy, the sixth of nine children in a musical family. His...

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Madame Butterfly

Many have lamented the tragic story of a Japanese wife abandoned by her American husband in Giacomo Puccini’s 1904 opera, Madame Butterfly, which was adapted from John Luther Long’s novella, Madame Butterfly. In the opera, Cio-cio san (Butterfly),...