Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Puccini Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (; 22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi". Puccini's early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera. Later, he successfully developed his work in the realistic "verismo" style, of which he became one of the leading exponents. Puccini's most renowned works are "La bohème" (1896), "Tosca" (1900), "Madama Butterfly" (1904), and "Turandot" (1924), all of which are among the important operas played as standards. Puccini was born Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria
Emma di Resburgo in Vienna in 2010, which was recorded. The opera is darker and more intensely dramatic than Meyerbeer's previous works. Impressive and monumental choral scenes such as the Chorus of Judges and funeral march in the last act are a feature of the work. Among solo arias, the final aria for the heroine Emma ("Il dì cadrà") with solo cor anglais, flutes, clarinets and horns, is especially notable. Recorded in 2010 Emma di Resburgo Emma di Resburgo (Emma of Roxburgh) is a melodramma "eroico" (a heroic, serious opera) in two acts by Giacomo Meyerbeer. It was the composer's sixth opera and