Artist
Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini is a composer artist from Lucca, Italy. 21 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · Lucca, Italy · Best composer albums
- 21
- Releases
- 1953–2010
- Active years
Artist
Giacomo Puccini is a composer artist from Lucca, Italy. 21 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Composer · Lucca, Italy · Best composer albums
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Grandes Compositores de la Música Clásica: Puccini
2010
Puccini Opera Arias
2005
Puccini Discoveries
2004
Tosca (National Philharmonic feat. conductor: Nicola Rescigno, soprano: Mirella Freni, tenor: Luciano Pavarotti, baritone: Sherrill Milnes)
1988
Puccini Weekend, Famous Arias
1988
Turandot (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan, vocals: Siegmund Nimsgern, Piero de Palma, Katia Ricciarelli, Gottfried Hornik, Francisco Araiza, Heinz Zednik, Ruggero Ra
1988
La bohème (Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano feat conductor: Antonino Votto; Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Rolando Panerai, Manuel Spatafora, Nicola Zaccaria, Anna Moffo, Carlo Badio
1987
La Bohème
1987
Madama Butterfly
1986
Turandot
1985
Tosca (National Philharmonic Orchestra, Welsh National Opera Chorus feat. conductor: Sir Georg Solti, soprano: Kiri Te Kanawa, baritono: Leo Nucci, tenor: Giacomo Aragall)
1984
Tosca (Berliner Philharmonic Orchestra feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan, soprano: Katia Ricciarelli)
1984
La Rondine (London Symphony Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, feat. Conductor Lorin Maazel)
1983
Turandot (Wiener Philharmoniker feat. conductor: Herbert von Karajan, soprano: Katia Ricciarelli, tenor: Placido Domingo)
1982
Missa di Gloria (Chœur symphonique et Orchestre de la fondation Gulbenkian de Lisbonne feat. conductor: Michel Corboz)
1978
Il tabarro (Lamberto Gardelli, Orch. e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino)
1962
Suor Angelica (Lamberto Gardelli, Orch. e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino)
1962
Gianni Schicchi (Lamberto Gardelli, Orch. e coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino)
1962
La fanciulla del West (Franco Capuana, Orch. e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia)
1958
Manon Lescaut
1954
Tosca
1953
Born Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, Puccini was born in Lucca in Tuscany, into a family with five generations of musical history behind them, including composer Domenico Puccini. His father died when Giacomo was five years old, and he was sent to study with his uncle Fortunato Magi, who considered him to be a poor and undisciplined student. Magi may have been prejudiced against his nephew because his contract as choir master stipulated that he would hand over the position to Puccini "as soon as the said Signore Giacomo be old enough to discharge such duties." Puccini took the position of church organist and choir master in Lucca, but it was not until he saw a performance of Verdi's Aida that he became inspired to be an opera composer. In 1880, with the help of a relative and a grant, Puccini enrolled in the Milan Conservatory to study composition with Stefano Ronchetti-Monteviti, Amilcare Ponchielli, and Antonio Bazzini. In the same year, at the age of 21, he composed the Messa, which marks the culmination of his family's long association with church music in his native Lucca. Although Puccini himself correctly titled the work a Messa, referring to a setti…