To search the press groups, the associations, sponsor, businessmen for the site ” News-art-culture.com”. For known Puccini you listen Manon Lescaut, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, La Bohème , the episodes of sensibility in desperation and love. You can to love or can to suffer ? The life is made in same way; passional between ecstasy , cruel fin to impulsivity, winner without to hate. Puccini is present; his life enters in personage and in his opera. 

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini is birth to Lucca the 22 December 1858 and is death to Brussels the 29 November 1924 , he is been an Italian composer , one of maxim composers of opera at international level. 

THE CHILDHOOD , HIS MUSICAL STUDY

He enters in family as sixty child from Puccini family , which of generations in generations are noted as masters of chapel to Cathedral of Lucca , the father is been a know and appreciate professor of composition to musical Institute Pacini in time of Luca Carlo Ludovico of Bourbon. With time passed of sadness by death his father , he study the music with his maternal uncle Fortunato magi characterized as  student l with little musical talent “ a slacker without talent”. Without lost the trust in himself he to subscribes to 14 years as teacher to Musical Institute of Lucca continuing to play organ. Instead in the study with Carlo Angeloni obtains the results concluding  with the first compositions( a sing “ The children of beautiful Italy”), a motto “ Messe for glory on four voice with orchestra” followed to Theatre Goldoni from Lucca of a big enthusiasm. It’s the passion for the music or talent? He obtains from Queen Margareta a scholarship of a year for to perfection to Conservatory of Milan( principal center of opera theatre). Under the study by Amilcare Ponchielli and Antonio Bazzini from 14 July 1883 he composes for the first opera “ Symphonic caprices” to conservatory from Milan where participate to concurs of opera with” Le Villi” for that he obtains little resultants, unhappy. 

MUSICAL CARRIER; LOVE; WORK

The first success is the opera Manon Lescaut, being more authentic opera from Puccini carrier inspired after  the roman by priest Antoine François Prevost” History of Knight Grieux and Manon Lescaut”, among treasures, love and jealousy. He is the man passionate by cars and love , much women have passed in his life, but to end only big love remains Elvira Bonturi  which is single  figure female capable gives him inspiration, his loves are present in his work; is the solitaire which love the rustic world considering the ideal place for cultivate his passion for hunting or for meetings between the artists at Torre di Lago , today named “ Torre del Lago Puccini” where he composes the major work by a big success. His work is under friendly sign and collaboration of two great librettists ( Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa). In time he enters in success with a variety of opera: Bohème being more famous opera based on the roman by Henry Murger” Scenes from the life by Bohème”,  late romantic with the examples of dramatic synthesis. Tosca, the opera with incursion in history melodrama where are present someone stereotypies of Verdi opera starting  with the musical expressionism. Madama Butterfly , presents the exoticism , passion, an opera wide of refinement inspired of drama by David Belasco. Sadness, desperation, scandals! At the end he wins ; opera continue to exalted with new scenes in exoticism, harmony and passional love. After lounge closed, obscure period of time finalized with the car accident and collaborations death ,follow the family scandals ( suicide by girl of house Doria Manfredi only 23 years persecuted of obsessive jealousy from his wife) until the juridical process . “ La fanciulla del West , La Rondine “ are work wide of stylistic refinement with languages and musical styles linked at musical traditions.” Trittico” with three opera: “ Il tabarro” with tragic part and Verdean, “ Suor Angelica” elegy and lyric , “ Gianni Schicchi” with the comic , three contrast characters compositional underlined of originality and puccinian  eclectic. “Turandot” is the unfinalized opera by author , the first puccinian opera  into fantastic ambient ( a time of tales).

PUCCINIAN STYLE

He is the composer of real opera associating the dominant tendency from opera world to years 1800 and 1900 expresses into artistic international panorama in music and stylistic evolution. In another work , music and theatre captivating public attention, carrying the personal and spaces and following his work in around of world. 

The variety, rapidity, synthesis, divers scenes , physiologic  profundity?

For new musical synthesis, the critic becomes hostile him, associating the young composers at” Generations  of years 1800” publicized an article polemic and violent” Giacomo Puccini and international opera”. In Puccini opera real  personal research is absent , he applies , not find , works with carry that to do , assimilating from French, from Russian, from Allemandes and Italian which have been his contemporaneity. Applicating, he don’t make never to make wide that he studied from others , but  whether   to need him as “ a common place” to modern music consecrated of success and fashion fascination…”

Artistic personality enters in timbral- harmony solutions of Wagnerian matrix from divers cultures musical and theatrical, having  a big admiration for Richard Wagner from is influenced of theory musical drama and the total art opera. From France enters with Bizet and Massenet having attention for local an history color , making musical reconstruction of ambient into absolute ambient in all puccinian partiture at that don’t miss the harmony in work to French music with modal procedures. Entering in French music he has admiration and fascination for Debussy in scale and in wide tons anesthetized. Italy he  love for his musical tradition known at international level in form of composition and in particular has a great respect and admiration for Verdean theatre. He search to maxim the dramatic synthesis, an exact dose of theatric times on emotive way of viewer , in melody he accenting the harmony aspects , timbral becomes dialectic between real time and psychologic time. Edgar Varèse ( one of maxims composers of year 1900) say: “ There is passed approximative ten month of Giacomo Puccini leaves you fighting contra destiny for bring him to closing the Turandot opera. In same kind she  don’t been present at horizon neither figure which give him the signals to be equipped by melody , not is a surprise as today has make to emerge in grad to takes the Mondial public for listen”. Puccini himself  affirms in aphoristic language noted to Tosca: “ Against everything and against everyone for make opera from melody”. 

He died to Brussels the 29 November 1924 of a myocadiac acute infarct after o sensibly operation of cancer to neck without to can finish Turandot opera. The last scenes has been completed by Franco Alfano under vision by Arturo Toscanini. Master tomb to find in chapel from vile Torre del Lago. 

WORK, PUCCINI’S COMPOSITIONS

Le Villi, Edgar, Manon Lescaut, La Bohème, Tosca, Madama Butterfly, La fanciulla del West, La rondine, Il trittico, Turandot…

A te, romance  for  voice  and pianoforte; Mottetto for San Paolino; Figli d’Italia bella; Adagio in fa major; Messa to four voice with orchestra; Ah, se potesse , romance for tenore and pianoforte ;Salve Regina; Storiella d’amore; Fuga in sol minore …

Project of opera unfinished : La lupa, Aphrodite, Adolphe, Maria Antonetta, Conchita,  Parisina, Due Zoccoletti, La rosa di Cipro, Anima allegra…

The composer life is been unroll in diverse cinematographic  films and mini series televises. The female figures of opera don’t can to exist without Puccini , he express the love with delicacies and refinement follow of absurd jealousy.   Solitaire, love the nature , human comic which is single to win the time without leaves the traces in tragedy. Loving to can understand the sacrifice, jealousy m sadness and the joy. Puccini search in lyric music and compositions the romantic, total opera, drama, associating varies styles of musical and theatrical culture. His artistic personality is timbred of harmony solutions , wide tons are anesthetized, to observe the styles elasticity , themes variety, phytologic profundity to personages bring the public to emotion. In his music remains deep the link from Italian tradition express from Verdean theatre, a lyric imagine accentuated of melody. The end is harmony which fascinating the Puccini’s opera.