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
Daniela di Giacomo International 2006, in China. Prior to winning Miss International, Di Giacomo competed in Miss World Coffee pageant in Guatemala, where she placed as a finalist and won the Miss Photogenic title. On October 15, 2007, Di Giacomo crowned Priscila Perales of Mexico as Miss International 2007. The pageant was held in Tokyo, Japan. Daniela di Giacomo Daniela Anette di Giacomo di Giovanni (born May 15, 1985) is a Venezuelan TV show host, journalist, radio host, model and Venezuelan beauty queen. She was crowned Miss Venezuela International 2005 and then Miss International 2006 in China. She worked on Venezuelan channel Televen