Giacomo Puccini

Composer

“Art is a kind of illness.”

Biography

Giacomo Puccini, in full Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (born Dec. 22, 1858, Lucca, Tuscany [Italy]—died Nov. 29, 1924, Brussels, Belg.), Italian composer, one of the greatest exponents of operatic realism, who virtually brought the history of Italian opera to an end. His mature operas include La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), and Turandot, left incomplete. —Encyclopedia Britannica