"""O Soave Fanciulla"" and ""Si, Mi Chiamo Mimi"" are arias from which Puccini opera?"
Lucrezia Bori concert from 1937, singing "Si, mi chiamano Mimì" and "O soave fanciulla" with Tenor Joseph Bentonelli, with the LA Philharmonic under Otto Klemperer. After her retirement from singing she was named chairman of the Metropolitan Opera Guild. Under her leadership the Guild collected musical instruments for military hospitals and performed other war activities as well as boosting opera throughout the country. Bori suffered a cerebral hemorrhage on May 2, 1960, and she died in Roosevelt Hospital on May 14. She had never married, believing that artists should not do so. Bori's complete Victor recordings were published on four compact discs
La fanciulla del West La fanciulla del West La fanciulla del West ("The Girl of the West") is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by and , based on the play "The Girl of the Golden West" by the American author David Belasco. "Fanciulla" followed "Madama Butterfly", which was also based on a Belasco play. The opera has fewer of the show-stopping highlights that are characteristic of other Puccini works, but is admired for its impressive orchestration and for a score that is more melodically integrated than is typical of his previous work. "Fanciulla" displays influences from composers