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Return to IndexPUCCINI, Giacomo
b Lucca, 22 December 1858
d Brussels, 29 November 1924, aged sixty-fiveHe came from a musical family A visit to Pisa to see Aida when he was eighteen was the beginning of his interest in opera. He studied first at the Pacini Conservatory in Lucca, then in Milan at the Reale Conservatory, under Ponchielli. The publisher Ricordi became his mentor, and the success of Manon Lescaut in 1893 established him. In 1891 he acquired a house in Torre del Lago, where he lived nearly all the rest of his life. He died of cancer of the throat.
1884 (26)
Le Villi, opera
1889 (31)
Edgar, opera
1893 (35)
Manon Lescaut, opera
1896 (38)
La Boheme, opera
1900 (42)
Tosca, opera
1904 (46)
Madam Butterfly, opera
1910 (52)
Girl of the Golden West (La Fanciulla del West), opera
1917 (59)
La Rondine, opera
1918 (60)
Il Trittico, three contrasted one-act operas to be produced in a single evening:
Suor Angelica
Il Tabarro
Gianni Schicchi
Performed posthumously:
1926 Turandot, opera