Giacomo Puccini

SUOR ANGELICA (SISTER ANGELICA) is a one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). The second opera in a trio known as IL TRITTICO (THE TRIPTYCH), each one dealing with the concealment of a death, the...

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) composed his opera EDGAR in 1889, following the success of his first stage work LE VILLI and at the encouragement of his publisher, Giulio Ricordi. Premiered at La Scala in...

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) composed his opera EDGAR in 1889, following the success of his first stage work LE VILLI and at the encouragement of his publisher, Giulio Ricordi. Premiered at La Scala in...

Hoping to repeat the success of his first opera LE VILLI, the publisher Ricordi commissioned Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) to write EDGAR, SC 62, based on a libretto by Ferdinando Fontana after Alfred d...

This Preludio Sinfonico in A (S.32) has often been confused with Giacomo Pucccini's (1858-1924) Preludio a Orchestra (S.1), composed when he was a teenager. The Preludio Sinfonico was composed as part...

SUOR ANGELICA (SISTER ANGELICA) is a one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924). The second opera in a trio known as Il trittico (The Triptych), each one dealing with the concealment of a death, the...

The three-act operetta LA RONDINE (The Swallow) by Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924) was first completed in 1916 and premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Monte Carlo on March 27, 1917. It tells the story of Ma...

One of Puccini's most celebrated arias in a reduced orchestration by Mark Armstrong (Fl, Ob, Cl, 2 Tpt, 2 Hn, 2 Trb, Hp, Timp and strings)

Puccini's aria was made a worldwide hit by the great Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti. Arranged by Mark Armstrong for reduced orchestra and tenor voice (Fl, Ob, Cl, 2 Tpt, 2 Hn, 2 Trb, Hp, Strings). Pr...

Puccini's celebrated aria - 'O mio babbino caro' ('Oh my beloved father') from the opera 'Gianni Schicci' in a reduced instrumentation by Mark Armstrong for orchestra and soprano voice (Fl, Ob, Cl, 2...