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Composer of the Week: Puccini

on BBC Radio 3

With Daniel Snowman.
Exotica, Erotica. Puccini enjoyed the challenge of placing each of his operas in a different time or place to his own and was especially stimulated by setting his love stories in what were to him exotic locations
- such as fin-de-siècle Japan or California during the gold rush. As a composer, he was constantly setting himself new artistic goals.
Elsewhere, he also liked to master the latest motor boat or automobile.
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