M° Emanuele Mazzola
La Bohème, Giacomo Puccini’s masterpiece of youthful love and loss, adapts Henri Murger’s Scènes de la vie de bohème, portraying the bittersweet lives of struggling artists in 1830s Paris. At its heart is the romance between poet Rodolfo and seamstress Mimì, whose delicate love is shadowed by poverty and illness. Puccini’s music, tender and emotionally… Continue reading La Bohème by Giacomo Puccini
Gianni Schicchi, the only comic opera by Giacomo Puccini, is based on a brief episode from Dante’s Inferno. The opera, written as the final installment of Puccini’s triptych Il Trittico, tells the story of a cunning Florentine commoner who outwits greedy aristocrats to secure a future for his daughter. Despite its brevity—under an hour—Gianni Schicchi… Continue reading Gianni Schicchi by Puccini
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