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
Il Bel Sogno Il Bel Sogno Il Bel Sogno is the debut album of Albanian opera singer, Inva Mula, released on October 6, 2009. The performers in this album are Inva Mula and Agim Hushi. The composers are Giacomo Puccini, Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, Giuseppe Verdi. The conductor of this album is Ivo Lipanovic. Orchestra/Ensemble: Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra. Reception for the album was good despite relative lack of prominence in the US. Her album is one of top ratings sales in opera music and has had great feed backs from the listeners. The album took the name "Il bel sogno" in short version