Giacomo Puccini
Born: 22nd December 1858, Lucca
Died: 29th November 1924, Brussels
Nationality: Italian
Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era. Though his early work was firmly rooted in traditional late-nineteenth-century Romantic Italian opera, it later developed in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.
His most renowned works are La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and the unfinished Turandot (posthumously completed by Franco Alfano), all of which are among the most frequently performed and recorded in the entirety of the operatic repertoire.
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Puccini's final version of La rondine from Opera Rara
6th Nov 2026
Ermonela Jaho is on tear-jerking form as the complex heroine Magda in this darker, 1921 iteration of Puccini's rom-com turned sour, outstandingly conducted by Carlo Rizzi and idiomatically reconstructed from archive materials by the Opera Rara team.
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Ermonela Jaho on La rondine
29th Oct 2026
In advance of Opera Rara's new recording of the final, 1921 version of Puccini's storia di salon (plus excerpts from the 1919 revision of the score), the Albanian soprano discusses why the composer kept revisiting the 'beautiful soul' of its heroine Magda de Civry.
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Popular Works: Puccini
- Addio, fiorito asil (from Madama Butterfly) (51)
- Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia (from Madama Butterfly) (25)
- Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano (from La Fanciulla del West) (65)
- Che gelida manina (from La Bohème) (190)
- Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine) (87)
- Crisantemi, SC65 (119)
- Donde lieta usci (from La Bohème) (68)
- Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut) (90)
- E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) (252)
- Firenze è come un albero fiorito (from Gianni Schicchi) (29)
- Gianni Schicchi (38)
- Humming Chorus (from Madama Butterfly) (32)
- Il tabarro (33)
- In quelle trine morbide (from Manon Lescaut) (73)
- In questa reggia (from Turandot) (43)
- La Bohème (104)
- La Bohème: Act 1 (134)
- La fanciulla del West (33)
- Madama Butterfly (95)
- Manon Lescaut (50)
- Manon Lescaut - Intermezzo (37)
- Mario! Mario! Mario! ...Son qui! ... Mia gelosa! (from Tosca) (25)
- Nessun dorma (from Turandot) (287)
- Non piangere, Liù! (from Turandot) (44)
- O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) (335)
- O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème) (94)
- Preludio Sinfonico in A major, SC 32 (30)
- Quando me'n vo (from La Bohème) (60)
- Recondita armonia (from Tosca) (136)
- Senza mamma, o bimbo (from Suor Angelica) (73)
- Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème) (125)
- Signore, ascolta! (from Turandot) (82)
- Sola, perduta, abbandonata (from Manon Lescaut) (52)
- Suor Angelica (32)
- Tosca (130)
- Tu che di gel sei cinta (from Turandot) (63)
- Tu? Tu? Piccolo iddio (from Madama Butterfly) (28)
- Turandot (89)
- Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly) (248)
- Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) (220)
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New. Puccini: La rondine (Final 1921 Version)
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2023, Recording of the Month
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th March 2023
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Opera, April 2023, Disc of the Month
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Record Review, 18th March 2023, Record of the Week
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2023, Recording of the Month
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year (Jaho/Radvanovsky)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Male Singer of the Year (Kaufmann/Spyres)
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Conductor of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2023 Finalists, Finalist - Opera
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Nominated - Recording (Complete Opera)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Winner - Opera
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2023
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Sunday Times, 10 Best Classical Albums of 2023
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2024, Shortlisted - Opera
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Special offer. Puccini: Orchestral Music
Sinfonia of London, John Wilson
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2026, Editor's Choice
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Coming soon. Puccini: Tosca
Anna Netrebko (Tosca), Freddie De Tommaso (Cavaradossi), Gerald Finley (Scarpia), Alessandro Corbelli (Sacristan), Ossian Huskinson (Angelotti), Carlo Bosi (Spoletta), Siphe Kwani (Sciarrone), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Jakub Hrůša, Oliver Mears
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Coming soon. Puccini: Tosca
Anna Netrebko (Tosca), Freddie De Tommaso (Cavaradossi), Gerald Finley (Scarpia), Alessandro Corbelli (Sacristan), Ossian Huskinson, Carlo Bosi (Spoletta), Siphe Kwani (Sciarrone), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Jakub Hrůša, Oliver Mears
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Giovanni Martinelli (tenor), Lorenzo Micheli Pucci, Alberto Mesirca
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ProgettOpera (soloist), Christian Di Meola (soloist)
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