Aria Tesolin and "O mio babbino caro" from Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi", and "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot". Tesolin's first live concert performance on August 3, 2002, was featured on Citytv News. Many members of the astonished audience were seen on camera with mouths visibly agape with surprise. At the age of 12, Tesolin recorded and released her debut opera album "Baby Soprano", featuring 14 popular opera arias. Nine tracks from "Baby Soprano", "Habanera", "Libiamo", "Vedrai Carino", "Un bel di", "Mattinata", "Largo al factotum", "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana", "Una furtiva lagrima", and "Belle nuit", have appeared on iTunes opera charts in 13 countries,
Giacomo Puccini critics as to the artistic value of his work has always been divided. Grove Music Online described Puccini's strengths as a composer as follows: Puccini succeeded in mastering the orchestra as no other Italian had done before him, creating new forms by manipulating structures inherited from the great Italian tradition, loading them with bold harmonic progressions which had little or nothing to do with what was happening then in Italy, though they were in step with the work of French, Austrian and German colleagues. In his work on Puccini, Julian Budden describes Puccini as a gifted and original composer, noting