Giacomo Puccini was an Italian opera composer. He was born in 1858 at Lucca and died in 1924. He studied under local teachers and in 1877 produced a cantata, 'Juno'. He worked at Milan conservatoire from 1880 until 1883 and in 1884 his one-act opera 'Le Villi' was produced at Milan, followed by Edgar in 1889. His first great success was with 'Manon Lescaut', staged at Turin in 1893, and its triumph was outdone by that of 'La Boheme', founded upon Murger's novel, in 1896. In addition he wrote 'La Tosca' in 1900, 'Madame Butterfly' in 1904, 'The Girl of the Golden West' in 1910, 'La Rondine' in 1917 and others. Research Giacomo Puccini
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