Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 –… Read Full Bio ↴Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (December 22, 1858 – November 29, 1924) is regarded as one of the great operatic composers of the late 19th and early 20th century. Although he wrote only twelve operas, Puccini's works dominate the operatic stage, particularly in the United States, where, according to Opera America, Madama Butterfly and La Bohème are the two most frequently performed operas respectively, with Tosca being eighth and Turandot being twelfth on the same list. Known for his melodic ability, orchestra depth, and dramatism, in Italian opera, Puccini was the only true successor to Giuseppe Verdi.
Puccini was born in Lucca, Italy into a family with a long history of music. After the death of his father when he was only five years old, he was sent to study with his uncle Fortunato Magi, who considered him to be a poor and undisciplined student. Later, he took the position of church organist and choir master, but it was not until he saw a performance of Verdi's Aida that he became inspired to be an opera composer. He and a friend walked an entire 18.5 miles (30 Kilometers) to see the performance in Pisa. In 1880, Puccini travelled to the Conservatory of Music in Milan to begin his career by studying composition with Amilcare Ponchielli.
In 1880, the Messa composed at the age of 21, marked the end of Puccini's apprenticeship as a composer and the culmination of his family's long association with church music in his native Lucca. (Note: This name normally applies only to a "Gloria" mass, setting the opening two prayers of the Catholic Mass, the Kyrie and the Gloria. However, the Messa is a setting of the full Catholic Mass.) The work offers fascinating glimpses of the dramatic power that Puccini was soon to unleash on Milan's stages; the powerful arias for tenor and bass soloists are certainly more operatic in feel than is usually encountered in church music. The orchestration and the overall feeling of drama conveyed by his music establish a dialogue with Verdi's Requiem and perhaps already constitute a prediction of the future operatic career Puccini would embrace for life.
From 1880 to 1883 he studied at the Milan Conservatory under Ponchielli and Antonio Bazzini. In 1882, Puccini entered a competition for a one-act opera. Although he did not win, Le Villi was later staged in 1884 at the Teatro dal Verme; it also caught the attention of Giulio Ricordi, head of G. Ricordi & Co. music publishers, who commissioned a second opera, Edgar (1889).
From 1891 on, Puccini passed more and more of his time at Torre del Lago, in the Tuscan countryside. In this place on the border of the Massaciuccoli lake, where he passed lots of time hunting, he found refuge from the crowded city. Later he built a villa and moved there definitively in 1900. It was to remain his home and workplace until the very last years of his life. He is buried in the villa's chapel.
Puccini was born in Lucca, Italy into a family with a long history of music. After the death of his father when he was only five years old, he was sent to study with his uncle Fortunato Magi, who considered him to be a poor and undisciplined student. Later, he took the position of church organist and choir master, but it was not until he saw a performance of Verdi's Aida that he became inspired to be an opera composer. He and a friend walked an entire 18.5 miles (30 Kilometers) to see the performance in Pisa. In 1880, Puccini travelled to the Conservatory of Music in Milan to begin his career by studying composition with Amilcare Ponchielli.
In 1880, the Messa composed at the age of 21, marked the end of Puccini's apprenticeship as a composer and the culmination of his family's long association with church music in his native Lucca. (Note: This name normally applies only to a "Gloria" mass, setting the opening two prayers of the Catholic Mass, the Kyrie and the Gloria. However, the Messa is a setting of the full Catholic Mass.) The work offers fascinating glimpses of the dramatic power that Puccini was soon to unleash on Milan's stages; the powerful arias for tenor and bass soloists are certainly more operatic in feel than is usually encountered in church music. The orchestration and the overall feeling of drama conveyed by his music establish a dialogue with Verdi's Requiem and perhaps already constitute a prediction of the future operatic career Puccini would embrace for life.
From 1880 to 1883 he studied at the Milan Conservatory under Ponchielli and Antonio Bazzini. In 1882, Puccini entered a competition for a one-act opera. Although he did not win, Le Villi was later staged in 1884 at the Teatro dal Verme; it also caught the attention of Giulio Ricordi, head of G. Ricordi & Co. music publishers, who commissioned a second opera, Edgar (1889).
From 1891 on, Puccini passed more and more of his time at Torre del Lago, in the Tuscan countryside. In this place on the border of the Massaciuccoli lake, where he passed lots of time hunting, he found refuge from the crowded city. Later he built a villa and moved there definitively in 1900. It was to remain his home and workplace until the very last years of his life. He is buried in the villa's chapel.
Puccini: La Bohème Act 1: "Sì. Mi chiamano Mimi"
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@andreapandypeterpan4062
There are people watching this who have a tear in their eyes only a couple of times?!
I'm smiling yet crying from second to second.
Her recitative-acting is so heartbreakingly intense and yet so perfectly expressive of a woman's dreams and yearning for love and unity with another heart.
Artistic and human and womanly perfection!
Orchestral genius of course from the maestro of Milano.
Love andrea
@systeck59
Poor love song
Because you're poor
Do not know loneliness
Come back with you
The moonlight is pouring in the snowy alleyway.
Is not it afraid to be poor?
Two-point hitting
The sound of the whistle of a crime prevention officer
When I open my eyes, I hear a heavy machine rolling.
I would have passed away because I was poor.
I want to see your mother.
After the house, there was one left
I am also drawing a red wind gusto.
The hotness of your lips that came to my ball
My breath, whispering that I love you and love you
Turn around and cry behind my back.
Why do not you know that you are poor
Because they are poor,
That we should throw away all these things.
A new breeder
Practical literature, 1988
@JoaoPedro-fj3td
Sì, mi chiamano Mimì,
ma il mio nome è Lucia.
La storia mia è breve.
A tela o a seta
ricamo in casa e fuori...
sono tranquilla e lieta
ed è mio svago
far gigli e rose.
Mi piaccion gente che sogna,
le cose gentili, il bianco e il rosso,
parlar d'amor, di primavere,
di sogni e di chimere,
quelle cose che han poesia...
Sì, mi chiamano Mimì,
e perché non so.
Sola, mi fo
il pranzo da me stessa.
Non vado sempre a messa,
ma prego assai il Signore.
Vivo sola, soletta,
là in una bianca cameretta:
guardo sui tetti e in cielo;
ma quando vien lo sgelo
il primo sole è mio
il primo bacio dell'aprile è mio!
Il primo sole è mio!
Germoglia in un vaso una rosa...
Foglia a foglia la spio!
Cosi gentile il profumo d'un fiore!
Ma i fior che cerco io,
non l'ho trovato ancor!
Pura come un angelo, Dio mi diè una figlia;
sempre, vicino al desco
di questa povera mamma, sorrise,
e con l'angioletto a fianco
soave dormire posso.
Or son tranquilla; so che Licinius è giusto,
e a Manlio dirò che deve
ora e sempre rispettarmi...
perchè io sono fedele,
fedele alla mia terra,
fedele al mio amore!
@mrwhite7361
Nicole is a fantastic Mimi, absolutely nails the role. I had a tear in my eye more than a couple of times. Absolutely brilliant.
@rosy3385
Merveilleuse cantatrice et sublime voix !
@davidjoyce1027
One of the greatest moments in Opera, dare I say Music, of all time. Simply sensational - the music and performance.
@dennisokeefe9255
Spot on!
@NYCBG
One of the greatest moments in soap opera, too.
@traindriva
Jesus, you actually made me cry. I've heard this hundreds of times before but I haven't ever seen it come alive before. Thankyou. Quite brilliant.
@inesdeerausquin5658
Beautiful!! I love that little chuckle she gives at "il perche non so" - and her voice is just gorgeous!!
@vincec8218
Check out soprano Kasondra Kazanjian
@draganvidic2039
Vince C Why?
@nickhodgett3251
Yes i love that too, makes me smile every time! Going to see La Boheme in June, my first opera!