Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was an Italian composer best known for his operas La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot. Puccini drew inspiration from a wide range of literary sources, and his late Romantic music with its immortal melodies emphasised the strong characters, drama, and fast pace of his emotional operas, which remain today as popular as ever.
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1858 - 1924Life of the Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.
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22 Dec 1858Giacomo Puccini is born in Lucca, Italy.
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1876Giacomo Puccini hears Giuseppe Verdi's Aida in Pisa and decides to become a composer of operas.
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1880Giacomo Puccini graduates from the Istituto Pacini in Lucca.
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1883Giacomo Puccini's opera Le villi (The Fairies) is staged at the Teatro dal Verme in Milan.
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1884Giacomo Puccini is given a contract by the music publisher Giulio Ricordi.
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1886Giacomo Puccini begins a relationship with Elvira Gemignani.
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1889Giuseppe Verdi's opera Edgar premieres at Milan’s La Scala theatre.
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1891Giacomo Puccini buys a villa in the small town of Torre del Lago near his native Lucca.
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1 Feb 1893Giacomo Puccini's opera Manon Lescaut premieres in Turin.
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Feb 1896Giacomo Puccini's opera La Bohème (The Bohemian Girl) premieres at the Teatro Regio in Turin.
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Jan 1900Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
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1904Giacomo Puccini marries Elvira Gemignani.
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Feb 1904Giacomo Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly premieres in La Scala, Milan.
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Dec 1910Giacomo Puccini's opera La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West) premieres at the New York Metropolitan Opera.
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1917Giacomo Puccini's opera La rondine (The Swallow) premieres in Monte Carlo.
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Dec 1918Giacomo Puccini's triple opera Il trittico (The Triptych) premieres in New York.
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29 Nov 1924Giacomo Puccini dies of a heart attack in Brussels.
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Apr 1926Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot premieres at La Scala, Milan.
