Biography
Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), born in Lucca into a family of church musicians, was the supreme Italian operatic voice after Verdi and the last composer to write operas that entered the core international repertoire. His twelve operas, from Le Villi (1884) to the unfinished Turandot (1926), represent the culmination of Italian operatic melody. La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot are among the most frequently performed operas in the world. Puccini's gift for soaring lyrical melody combined with an acute sense of theatrical pacing defined the late Romantic operatic style. He was also an early participant in the verismo movement. Puccini died of a heart attack during treatment for throat cancer in Brussels before completing Turandot, which Franco Alfano finished from his sketches.
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