Giacomo Puccini Because only three "verismo" works by Puccini continue to appear regularly on stage (the aforementioned "Cavalleria rusticana", "Pagliacci", and "Andrea Chénier"), Puccini's contribution has had lasting significance to the genre. Both during his lifetime and in posterity, Puccini's success outstripped other Italian opera composers of his time, and he has been matched in this regard by only a handful of composers in the entire history of opera. Eleven of Puccini's operas are numbered among the 200 most-performed operas (worldwide, by composers of any nationality, as surveyed by Operabase). Three of his works ("La bohème", "Tosca", and "Madama Butterfly") rank among
Aria di Festa Aria di Festa Aria di Friuli Venezia Giulia (previously known as Aria di Festa) is a "Sagra"—a festival based around a local culinary item—that takes place in San Daniele del Friuli over a period of some three days at the end of June each year. The speciality here is a dry-cured raw ham known as Prosciutto di San Daniele. The event draws thousands of tourists every year from across the world, especially from Austria and Slovenia as it's located close. Aria di Friuli Venezia Giulia, the "Prosciutto Festival", takes place from June 24 to 27 2016. As an addition to