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 the top ten works performed, and Puccini ranks third (behind Verdi and Mozart) in the number of performances of his operas over all. Gustav Kobbé, the original author of "The Complete Opera Book", a standard reference work on opera, wrote in the 1919 edition: "Puccini is considered the most important figure in operatic Italy today, the successor of Verdi, if there is any." Other contemporaries shared this view. Italian opera composers of the generation with whom Puccini was compared included Pietro Mascagni (1863–1945), Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857–1919), Umberto Giordano (1867–1948), Francesco Cilea (1866–1950), Baron Pierantonio Tasca (1858–1934), Gaetano Coronaro (1852–1908), and