GIACOMO PUCCINI Vinyl Records and CDs
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(b. Lucca, 22 Dec 1858; d. Brussels, 29 Nov 1924). Italian composer, son of Michele Puccini and fifth in a line of composers from Lucca. He started his career at the age of 14 as an organist at S Martino and S Michele, Lucca, and at other local churches. However, a performance of Verdi's Aida at Pisa in 1876 made such an impact on him that he decided to follow his instinct for operatic composition. With a scholarship and financial support from an uncle, he was able to enter the Milan Conservatory in 1880. During his three years there his chief teachers were Bazzini and Ponchielli.While still a student, Puccini entered a competition for a one-act opera announced in 1882 by the publishing firm of Sonzogno. He and his librettist failed to win, but their opera Le villi came to the attention of the publisher Giulio Ricordi, who arranged a successful production at the Teatro del Verme in Milan and commissioned a second opera, which was coolly received at La Scala in April 1889. It did, however, set the seal on what was to be Puccini's lifelong association with the house of Ricordi.The first opera for which Puccini himself chose the subject was Manon Lescaut. Produced at Turin in 1893, it achieved a success such as Puccini was never to repeat and made him... Read More ... known outside Italy. Among the writers who worked on its libretto were Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa, who provided the librettos for Puccini's next three operas. The first of these, La boheme, widely considered Puccini's masterpiece, but with its mixture of lighthearted and sentimental scenes and its largely conversational style was not a success when produced at Turin in 1896. Tosca, Puccini's first excursion into verismo, was more enthusiastically received by the Roman audience at the Teatro Costanzi in 1900.Later that year Puccini visited London and saw David Belasco's one-act play Madam Butterfly. This he took as the basis for his next collaboration with Illica and Giacosa; he considered it the best and technically most advanced opera he had written. He was unprepared for the fiasco attending its first performance in February 1904, when the La Scala audience was urged into hostility, even pandemonium, by the composer's jealous rivals; in a revised version it was given to great acclaim at Brescia the following May.In his early 60s Puccini was determined to "strike out on new paths" and started work on Turandot, based on a Gozzi play which satisfied his desire for a subject with a fantastic, fairy-tale atmosphere, but flesh-and-blood characters. During its composition he moved to Viareggio and in 1923 developed cancer of the throat. Treatment at a Brussels clinic seemed successful, but his heart could not stand the strain and he died, leaving Turandot unfinished. (It is usually played today with Franco Alfano's ending.) All Italy went into mourning and two years later his remains were interred at his house at Torre del Lago which, after his wife'
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Тоска |
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Giacomo Puccini |
16 Great Arias |
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$21 |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Arias |
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$5 |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Best Of Puccini |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Brani Scelti Da Madama Butterfly |
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Carreras |
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$21 |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Famous Opera Arias |
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Favourite Composers |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Il Tabarro |
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I Tre Capolavori Di Puccini |
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La Boh |
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La Scala Opera Puccini |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Madame Butterfly |
LP, 7", DVD, 10", 3LP, CD, 2CD, 2LP |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Manon Lescaut |
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Mass |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Nessun Dorma |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Opera Arias |
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Operas Favoritas |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Preludio Sinfonico • Capriccio Sinfonico |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Puccini's Greatest Hits |
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The Reader's Digest Favourites From The Classics |
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$12 |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Selections From La Bohème |
7" |
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$4 |
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Tosca Highlights |
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Giacomo Puccini |
Tosco |
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$18 |
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Giacomo Puccini |
The Very Best Of Puccini |
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The World Of Puccini |
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Giacomo Puccini - Anna Moffo • Daniele Barioni • M |
Che Gelida Manina |
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Giacomo Puccini - Anna Moffo • Daniele Barioni • M |
La Rondine |
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Giacomo Puccini - Boston Pops Orchestra, arthur Fie |
Opera Without Singing |
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Giacomo Puccini - Coro Della "società Italian |
La Tosca |
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Giacomo Puccini - José Carreras, hermann Prey, the A |
Messa Di Gloria |
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Giacomo Puccini - Renata Scotto / Carlo Bergonzi / |
Edgar |
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Giacomo Puccini - Renata Tebaldi / Mario Del Monac |
Il Trittico |
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Giacomo Puccini - Tito Gobbi, victoria De Los Angel |
Gianni Schicchi |
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Giacomo Puccini / Coro Dell'accademia Nazionale Di |
Musica Sacra |
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Giacomo Puccini / Coro Dell'accademia Nazionale Di |
Requiem |
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Giacomo Puccini / Marilyn Richardson / David Parke |
Le Villi |
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Giacomo Puccini / Renata Tebaldi ' Giuseppe Campor |
Tosca |
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Giacomo Puccini / Renata Tebaldi, nell Rankin, giuse |
Highlights From Madama Butterfly |
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Giacomo Puccini / Sir John Barbirolli |
Madama Butterfly |
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Giacomo Puccini : Birgit Nilsson - Franco Corelli |
Great Scenes From Turandot |
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Giacomo Puccini Giuseppe Verdi |
Classics 24 |
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Giacomo Puccini · Maria Callas |
Eines Tages Sehn Wir · Ach |
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Giacomo Puccini ∙ Giuseppe Verdi ∙ Gaetano Don |
Duos De Amor |
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Giacomo Puccini • Carol Neblett • Placido Domingo |
Montserrat Caballe Sings Puccini Arias |
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Giacomo Puccini, erich Kunzel, cincinnati Pops Orche |
Pops Plays Puccini |
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Giacomo Puccini, erich Leinsdorf |
Invocazione Alla Luna |
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Licia Albanese In Highlights From Puccini's Madame Butterfly With James Melton And Other Operatic Ar |
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Giacomo Puccini, georges Bizet, lawrence Tibbett |
Tre Sbirri, Una Carroza |
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Giacomo Puccini, giuseppe Verdi |
Giacomo Puccini |
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