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1. www.arcolatheatre.com › whatever-happened-toWhatever happened to Elvira Bonturi? - Arcola Theatre

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   Jul 25, 2017 · Ahead of Il Letto‘s premiere at Grimeborn 2017, librettist and playwright Christopher Hogg goes in search of Elvira Bonturi, an amateur soprano who married the composer Giacomo Puccini.

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3. www.nytimes.com › 2017/11/29 › artsHenry Murger’s Tales of Paris Life Gave Rise to 2 ‘Bohèmes’

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   Nov 29, 2017 · More than 30 years after his death, Murger’s Bohème story was given new life, transformed into opera: two operas, one by Puccini, a second by Ruggero Leoncavallo, the composer of “Pagliacci.”

4. www.seattleoperablog.com › p › spotlight-on-madameSeattle Opera Blog: Spotlight on: MADAME BUTTERFLY

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   Opera titan Giacomo Puccini wrote Madame Butterfly in the first few years of the twentieth century, for La Scala, the big opera house in Milan. Puccini was blown away when he watched David Belasco’s play dramatizing this story, even though he didn’t understand English.

5. www.forbes.com › sites › peterubelPuccini Was Dying Of Cancer—Hiding His Diagnosis ... - Forbes

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   Jun 6, 2023 · Composing what would be his last opera, Giacomo Puccini was struggling to humanize Turandot, daughter of the Emperor and a woman of mesmerizing beauty. Early in the opera, she had cruelly...

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Madama_ButterflyMadama Butterfly - Wikipedia

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   Madama Butterfly (Italian pronunciation: [maˈdaːma ˈbatterflai]; Madame Butterfly) is an opera in three acts (originally two) by Giacomo Puccini, with an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa.

7. www.classical-music.com › six-best-puccini-ariasSix of the best Puccini arias - Classical Music

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   Six of the best Puccini arias. The BBC Music Magazine team share their thoughts on the finest arias from Puccini's great operas. The great composer Giacomo Puccini was, among many other things, a prodigiously gifted writer of stunning operatic arias.

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   Who is Giacomo Puccini?

   • You'll be asked to sign into your Forbes account. Giacomo Puccini (Lucca, 1858-Brussels, 1924), Italian composer, at the piano. Torre Del Lago ... [+] It would have been a difficult ending under the best of circumstances.

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   Was Puccini composing a Bohème Opera?

   • Puccini said he was composing the music to “La Bohème”; a stunned Leoncavallo responded that he, too, was composing a Bohème opera with his own libretto. He claimed that earlier, he had offered Puccini his libretto, but that Puccini had replied that he was not interested. The two men took their battle to the Italian press.

   Henry Murger’s Tales of Paris Life Gave Rise to 2 ‘Bohèmes’

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   How did Puccini survive the opera?

   • He survived the operation, but was never able to speak again much less finish the opera. Less than a week after the procedure, he suffered a heart attack, likely due to the stress of the arduous treatment. Now his life was finished. Puccini was never given a choice about how to spend his final days.

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   Did Puccini have cancer?

   • Here was the time—ameliorate his problem for a while, and the master would have time to complete his masterpiece. But instead, still unaware that he had cancer, Puccini allowed himself to undergo a futile bout of surgery, in which physicians tried to remove his tumor.

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   What happened between Puccini and Leoncavallo?

   • During a chance encounter in Milan in March 1893, Puccini and Leoncavallo went into a cafe to discuss their work, she wrote. Puccini said he was composing the music to “La Bohème”; a stunned Leoncavallo responded that he, too, was composing a Bohème opera with his own libretto.

   Henry Murger’s Tales of Paris Life Gave Rise to 2 ‘Bohèmes’

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   Why was Puccini's struggle so difficult?

   • Puccini’s struggle was made all the more difficult because he was suffering from persistent pain in his throat. Swallowing was difficult and his neck was so swollen he couldn't button the top of his shirt. He saw a throat specialist, who reassured him that he simply had swelling near his epiglottis that should improve with radiation.

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9. www.operaroma.it › en › calibanoPuccini, Opera and Women

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   We might argue that there is far greater compassion for women, far greater humanity in Puccini’s operas than there is in the numerous present-day films and television crime dramas in which brutal female deaths are a matter of routine, never mind in violent computer games and rap songs.