With Daniel Snowman.
Living Dangerously. By the First
World War, Puccini was the most famous living Italian opera composer. Learning from contemporaries as varied as Debussy, Stravinsky and Lehar, he tried his hand at a Viennese-style operetta - La Rondine - and wrote an operatic triptych about death: the veristic melodrama
II Tabarro; a mystical transfiguration, Suor Angelica ; and a quickfire comedy about a disputed will, Gianni Schicchi.
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