Puccini - Il Trittico Opera Vocal Score | Complete Opera Vocal Score Book for Singers and Teachers | Full Piano Reduction for Il Tabarro Suor Angelica ... Edition

by Giacomo Puccini (Composer)

(Opera). This famous trilogy of Puccini one-act operas, Il tabarro, Suor Angelica and Gianni Schicchi, now appears in one complete opera vocal score.

434 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2002

About the author

An Italian composer, son of Michele Puccini and fifth in a line of composers from Lucca. After studying music with his uncle, Fortunato Magi, and with the director of the Insituto Musicale Pacini, Carlo Angeloni, he started his career at the age of fourteen as an organist of St. Martino and St. Michele, Lucca, and at other local churches. However, a performance of Verdi's Aida at Pisa in 1876 made such an impression on him he decided to become an opera composer. With a scholarship and financial support from an uncle, he was able to enter the Milan Conservatory in 1880. During his three years there, his chief teachers were Bazzini and Ponchielli.

Punccini's best known operas are: Le villi (1884), Edgar (1889), Manon Lescaut (1893), La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), La fanciulla del West (1910), La rondine (1917), "Il trittico" and Turandot (1926).

During the composition of Turandot, he was diagnosed with throat cancer, and died after receiving treatment in Brussles. Turandot, was left unfinished, but was completed by Franco Alfano.