* 1858 – Giacomo Puccini, Italian composer ( d. 1924 )

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Giacomo Puccini with conductor Arturo Toscanini

Founded in 1996 in Lucca, the Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini embraces a wide range of approaches to the study of Puccini's work.

* Ravenni, Gabriella Biagi and Michele Girardi, Giacomo ( Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria ) Puccini ( ii ) in Grove Music Online, accessed 9 August 2012

* Centro Studi di Giacomo Puccini

* Encyclopædia Britannica, Giacomo Puccini

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Some of the roles with which Gigli became particularly associated during this period included Edgardo in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Rodolfo in Giacomo Puccini's La Bohème and the title role in Umberto Giordano's Andrea Chénier, both of which he would later record in full.

In the light of this explicit mention of a jubilee with great remissions of the penalties of sin to be obtained by full confession and purpose of amendment, it seems difficult to reject the statement of Cardinal Giacomo Stefaneschi, the contemporary and counsellor of Pope Boniface VIII, and author of a treatise on the first Jubilee, that the proclamation of the Jubilee owed its origin to the statements of certain aged pilgrims who persuaded Boniface that great indulgences had been granted to all pilgrims in Rome about a hundred years before.

This enables the singer to cut through the wall of sound produced by a full Romantic orchestra in a wide variety of roles, excluding only the most taxing ones written by the likes of Richard Wagner ( such as Brünhilde, Isolde, Tristan and Siegfried ), Giacomo Meyerbeer ( John of Leyden ), Verdi ( Otello ), Puccini ( Turandot, Calaf ) and Richard Strauss ( Elektra ).

The English name " James " comes from Italian " Giacomo ", a variant of " Giacobo " derived from Iacobus ( Jacob ) in Latin, itself from the Greek Ἰάκωβος.

Catherine also gave the name of the Hermitage to her private theatre, built nearby between 1783 and 1787 by the Italian architect Giacomo Quarenghi.

He was to adopt the surname Meyerbeer on the death of his grandfather Liebmann Meyer Wulff ( 1811 ) and the first name Giacomo during his period of study in Italy, around 1817.

Act 3 scene 2 of Robert ( the ' Ballet of the Nuns ') at the Paris Opéra ( Salle Le Peletier ), 1832 The name Giacomo Meyerbeer first became known internationally with his opera Il crociato in Egitto — premiered in Venice in 1824 and produced in London and Paris in 1825 ; incidentally it was the last opera ever written to feature a castrato, and to require keyboard accompaniment for recitatives.

He is buried in the English Cemetery, Florence, his name in the register given as ' Ugo Giacomo Rose ', his Scipio tomb having a lengthy epitaph in Latin.

In the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova, he remarked that the name " Parmesan " was a misnomer common throughout an " ungrateful " Europe in his time ( mid-18th century ), as the cheese was produced in the town of Lodi, Lombardy, not Parma.

It is also the usual translation for the title of Giacomo Meyerbeer's 1831 opera Robert le diable, which has little in common with the legend except the name of the hero.

His name is a reference to Giacomo Casanova, although, as a dwarf, he obviously stands more " unda " than " ova " his conquests.

The building was commissioned from Giacomo Quarenghi by the Society for Education of Noble Maidens and constructed in 1806-08 to house the Smolny Institute for Noble Maidens, established at the urging of Ivan Betskoy and in accordance with a decree of Catherine II ( the Great ) in 1764, borrowing its name from the nearby Smolny Convent.

The definitive name of Nabucco for the opera ( and its protagonist ) was first used at a performance at the San Giacomo Theatre of Corfu in September, 1844.

( His first name is sometimes reported as " Giacomo ".

He is perhaps most famous for having adapted the short story " Madame Butterfly " into a play with the same name and for penning The Girl of the Golden West for the stage, both of which were adapted as operas by Giacomo Puccini.

At Tossignano, a conspiracy was formed to seize the fortress in the name of Ottaviano, and murder both Giacomo and Caterina.

Giacomo was named by Jerry and Ann Moss in honor of a friend of theirs, rock musician Sting, who has a son by the same name.

# Another illegitimate daughter ( name unknown ), married Giacomo di Sanseverino, Count of Mileto.

Subsequently this tradition would also be upheld by Piazzetta, Pietro Longhi, Giacomo Ceruti and Giandomenico Tiepolo to name a few.

It was directed by Giacomo Gentilomo and starred Alan Steel ( real name Sergio Ciani ) and Jany Clair.

It takes its name from Moor Park, a country house which was originally built in 1678 – 9 for James, Duke of Monmouth, and was reconstructed in the Palladian style circa 1720 by Giacomo Leoni.

Giordano Loffredo Caetani by his marriage with Giovanna dell ' Aquila, heiress of the counts of Fondi and Traetto, in 1297 added the name of Aquila to his own, and his grandson Giacomo acquired the lordships of Piedimonte and Gioia.