Aria Tesolin and "O mio babbino caro" from Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi", and "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot". Tesolin's first live concert performance on August 3, 2002, was featured on Citytv News. Many members of the astonished audience were seen on camera with mouths visibly agape with surprise. At the age of 12, Tesolin recorded and released her debut opera album "Baby Soprano", featuring 14 popular opera arias. Nine tracks from "Baby Soprano", "Habanera", "Libiamo", "Vedrai Carino", "Un bel di", "Mattinata", "Largo al factotum", "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana", "Una furtiva lagrima", and "Belle nuit", have appeared on iTunes opera charts in 13 countries,
Giacomo Puccini of the Manfredi family, Nadia Manfredi, in 2007, Puccini was actually having an affair with Giulia Manfredi, Doria's cousin. Press reports at the time when these documents were discovered alleged that Nadia Manfredi was Puccini's granddaughter, by a son, Antonio Manfredi, born to Giulia. Unlike Wagner and Verdi, Puccini was not active in politics. Puccini biographer Mary Jane Phillips-Matz wrote: "Throughout this entire period [of World War I and its immediate aftermath], Puccini's interest in politics was close to zero, as it had been all his life, so far as one can judge. He seemed almost indifferent to everything from