With Daniel Snowman.
Living Dangerously. By the time of the First World War, Puccini was by far 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 - a veristic melodrama (II Tabarro), a mystical transfiguration (Suor
Angelica) and a quickfire comedy about a disputed will (Gianni Schicchi). Repeated next Thursday 12 midnight