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
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