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
Paris Opera Ballet Palais Garnier where most of the Paris Opera ballets take place to a new building located 10 kilometres west of the centre of Paris in Nanterre. The new dance school building was designed by Christian de Portzamparc. Since 1995 the Paris Opera Ballet School has been a boarding school, Nowadays, from 8 till noon, all pupils attend school classes leading to the obtention of the French "baccalauréat (the bac)", the general qualification for university entrance in France. Among the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet, 95 percent have attended the Paris Opera Ballet School. To describe it differently, for a