Giacomo Puccini

Historical eventDecember 141918

Giacomo Puccini

Giacomo Puccini's comic opera Gianni Schicchi premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

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When
Saturday, December 14 1918108 years ago
Category
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Era
20th century · 1910s
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Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Widely regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era. Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-nineteenth-century Romantic Italian opera, it later developed in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.

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December 14 1918 — 108 years ago, on a Saturday.

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