Some music critics and interpreters of Puccini's work have speculated that the psychological effects of this incident on Puccini interfered with his ability to complete compositions later in his career, and also influenced the development of Puccinian characters such as Liu ( from Turandot ), a slave girl who dies tragically by suicide.

He wrote to a friend that he supported Benito Mussolini at first ; Mussolini also made Puccini a senator shortly before the latter's death.

His work there included a highly controversial staging of Strauss ’ Salome with sets by Salvador Dalí and also an effective re-staging of Puccini ’ s La Boheme using sets dating from 1899.

Verismo is also employed by musicologists to refer to a post-Romantic operatic tradition associated with Italian composers such as Pietro Mascagni, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Umberto Giordano and Giacomo Puccini.

* Mario del Monaco: Grandi Voci-DECCA, 19 tracks, all studio-excellent selection of his finest arias ( mostly Verdi and Puccini, but also including ' Vesti la giubba ') plus three popular songs ( including ' Granada ').

It's worth noting also that Scotto recorded ( either in studio or in live performance ) the complete Puccini soprano repertoire with the exceptions of Turandot, Magda in La rondine and Minnie in La fanciulla del West.

Haenchen was particularly associated with the German repertoire: Richard Strauss, Mozart, and Wagner, but he also conducted opera of Verdi, Bartók, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, and Gluck.

The film had an original score by Sigmund Romberg and reused the popular David Belasco stage plot ( also employed by opera composer Giacomo Puccini for La fanciulla del West ).

Many operas by western composers are also performed, especially works of Italian composers such as Rossini, Verdi, and Puccini.

* The Girl of the Golden West ( 1938 ) had an original score by Sigmund Romberg and reused the David Belasco stage plot also employed by Giacomo Puccini for La Fanciulla del West.

She also added the Puccini heroines of Manon Lescaut and Tosca to her repertoire, and recorded Madama Butterfly and the three roles of Il trittico.

Puccini also wrote intermezzi for Manon Lescaut and Madama Butterfly, and examples exist by Wolf-Ferrari, Delius and others.

The modern cimbasso is most commonly used in opera scores by Giuseppe Verdi from Oberto to Aida, and by Giacomo Puccini in Le Villi only, though the word also appears in the score of Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, which premiered in 1831.

Ancona also undertook roles composed by Leoncavallo ( Silvio and Tonio ), Puccini ( Lescaut and Marcello ), Mascagni ( Alfio and David in L ' amico Fritz ), Giordano ( Gerard in Andrea Chénier ), Mozart ( Don Giovanni and Figaro ) and Wagner ( Wolfram, Telramund and even, on occasion, Hans Sachs ).

In addition to the bel canto roles for which she is best known, Gencer's repertory also included works by such composers as Prokofiev, Mozart, and Puccini.

Indy also encounters ( in no particular order ) Edgar Degas, Giacomo Puccini, George Patton, Pablo Picasso ( same episode as Degas ), Eliot Ness, Charles Nungesser, Al Capone, Manfred von Richthofen, Annie Besant, Charles Webster Leadbeater, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, Norman Rockwell ( same episode as Degas and Picasso ), Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin, Sean O ' Casey, Siegfried Sassoon, Patrick Pearse, Winston Churchill, Carl Jung, and Sigmund Freud ; at one point, he competes against a young Ernest Hemingway for the affections of a girl, is nursed back to health by Albert Schweitzer, has a passionate tryst with Mata Hari, and goes on a safari with Theodore Roosevelt.

" ( Werther ) / Puccini " E lucevan le stelle " ( Tosca ) / Puccini " Nessun dorma " ( Turandot ) / Giordano " Un dì all ' azzuro spazio ", also known as " L ' improvviso " ( Andrea Chénier ) / Verdi " Ma se m ' è forza perderti " ( Un ballo in maschera ) / Verdi " Ah si, ben mio ... Di quella pira " ( Il trovatore )

In addition to his " administrative " duties at London Records he also served as a classical artist orchestrating and conducting a number of classical albums including the works of Puccini, Verdi, Bach, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff.

Giacomo Puccini also made use of the same tune in his opera Madama Butterfly in 1904.

While Puccini and Ricordi may not have known it, the French composer, Daniel Auber, had also already written an opera on the same subject with the title, Manon Lescaut, in 1856.

Puccini also intended that the three should be performed as a set, and wrote to Casa Ricordi to complain about their giving permission in 1920 to the Royal Opera, London " for Tabarro and Schicchi without Angelica ".

He also wrote the librettos used by Giacomo Puccini in La bohème, Tosca and Madama Butterfly in conjunction with Luigi Illica.

Its most notable personality was Giulio Ricordi ( 1840 – 1912 ) who was closely involved in the operatic career of Giacomo Puccini but whose interests also extended to composing music, art, design and painting.

Puccini had been considering an opera on this theme since he saw the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou in 1889, when he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

With Gianni Puccini, Antonio Pietrangeli and Giuseppe De Santis, he wrote the screenplay for his first film as director: Ossessione ( Obsession, 1943 ), the first neorealist movie and an unofficial adaptation of the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice.

Some composers, such as Mikhail Glinka, Alexander Serov, Rimsky-Korsakov, Puccini, and Mascagni wrote passages of music without text and subsequently had the librettist add words to the vocal melody lines.

He wrote the musical Cafe Puccini at the age of 45, which opened at the Wyndham's Theatre in 1986 with musical director William Blezard.

Music critic David Patrick Stearns wrote, " Though Catán's style was often compared to that of Puccini and Debussy, it changed with every work, from the lush nature painting of Florencia en El Amazonas ( 1996 ) to the Cuban ethnic influences of Salsipuedes ( 2004 ), and the more integrated sonorities that portrayed the inner emotions of Il Postino ( 2010 ).

Luigi Illica ( 9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919 ) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini ( usually with Giuseppe Giacosa ), Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian composers.

The group all had close connections with the Milan Conservatory and included Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano, Cilea, Catalani and Franchetti as well as non-operatic composers, such as Don Lorenzo Perosi, who wrote almost exclusively sacred music.

During the period, Petri also wrote scripts for Giuliano Puccini, Aglauco Casadio and Carlo Lizzani.

The Weber themes are taken from incidental music Weber wrote for a play by Carlo Gozzi based on the same Turandot legend that later inspired Giacomo Puccini and others.

His orchestral repertoire numbered over 450 works from all periods, and was matched by a repertoire of some sixty operas ranging from Mozart, Verdi, Puccini and Wagner to the more contemporary Prokofiev, Bartók, Britten, Kodály, Poulenc and Janáček.

In the USA, the American Center for Puccini Studies specializes in the presentation of unusual performing editions of composer's works and introduces neglected or unknown Puccini pieces.

* The Singers: Mario del Monaco-DECCA, 17 tracks-mostly opera arias ( Puccini, Wagner, Bellini, Verdi ) plus a few popular / sacred pieces.

When Sardou indicated his unease at entrusting his most successful work to the as-yet-unproven Puccini, whose music he did not like, Puccini took offence.

After the severe criticisms by Ricordi and the conductor Arturo Toscanini, he was forced to write a second, strictly censored version that followed Puccini's sketches more closely, to the point where he did not set some of Adami's text to music because Puccini had not indicated how he wanted it to sound.

Baron Fassini Camossi, the former Italian diplomat to China, gave Puccini as a gift a music box which played a number of Chinese melodies.

As with Madama Butterfly, Puccini strove for a semblance of Asian authenticity ( at least to Western ears ) by using music from the region in question.

In his early years he was exposed to art, music and theatre, and met the composer Giacomo Puccini, the conductor Arturo Toscanini and the writer Gabriele d ' Annunzio.

Its score, composed by Alex North, adapts the music of Giacomo Puccini and Gioachino Rossini.

The publishers perpetuated mediocrity and the domination of music by the " rickety and vulgar " operas of Puccini and Umberto Giordano.

In " Identity Crisis ", murderer Nelson Brenner ( Patrick McGoohan ) bugs Columbo's home and learns Mrs. Columbo's favorite piece of music is Madama Butterfly from Giacomo Puccini.

In addition to the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, its natural home is to be found in operatic music composed after about 1830 by the likes of Donizetti, Ponchielli, Massenet, Puccini and the verismo composers.

Even so, polyphonically and melodically, Kálmán was a devoted follower of Giacomo Puccini, while in his orchestration methods he employed principles characteristic of Tchaikovsky's music.

At the height of his career, he was greatly admired for his range and versatility, having possessed a sufficiently accomplished bel canto technique to enable him to sing the music of Handel, Mozart, Rossini, yet power enough to handle the more overtly dramatic roles written by Verdi and Puccini.

He made a brief appearance in the 1936 Nelson Eddy-Jeanette MacDonald film Rose Marie, singing music from Charles Gounod's Romeo et Juliette and Giacomo Puccini's Tosca, but according to Merchant of Dreams, Charles Higham's biography of Louis B. Mayer, Eddy, who apparently considered Jones a rival and a potential threat, asked that most of Jones's footage in Rose Marie be cut, including his rendition of the great Puccini aria E lucevan le stelle-and MGM agreed to Eddy's demand.

In particular, he was not known as an interpreter of the Italian opera repertoire ( he conducted no Puccini and only three Verdi works during his music directorship at Covent Garden ).

* 1988 Recital: music by Chesworth, Puccini, Mozart et al., text by Douglas Horton & Helen Noonan, produced by Chamber Made

With these musicians, he has pursued an eclectic direction in recording projects that has ranged from jazz standards to Puccini arias, original adaptations from the John Coltrane and Miles Davis repertoires, original compositions in styles ranging from world music to fusion, always maintaining a repertoire that balances the past, present and future.

His artistic output has ranged from straight-ahead classic jazz to chamber music, from fusion to avant garde, with numerous CDs featuring original arrangements of the music of Monk, Miles Davis, Coltrane, Kurt Weill, Alec Wilder, Cole Porter, Jobim and Puccini.

Giacomo Puccini is quoted as saying that " There's more music in Perosi's head than in mine and Mascagni's put together.