List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini

The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is regarded as the natural successor to the tradition of Giuseppe Verdi and is considered the greatest Italian opera proponent of his time. Best known for his 12 operas, his style quickly departed from the predominant Romantic Italian style and he emerged as the most significant representative of verismo, a radically realist approach.

Giacomo Puccini

Operas
Operas by Giacomo Puccini[1]
Title Genre Acts Language Librettist Premiere
Date Venue
Le Villi Leggenda drammatica 1 act Italian Ferdinando Fontana 31 May 1884 Teatro Dal Verme
2 acts 26 December 1884 Teatro Regio[lower-alpha 1]
Edgar Dramma lirico 4 acts Italian Ferdinando Fontana 21 April 1889 La Scala
5 September 1891 Teatro del Giglio
3 acts 28 January 1892 Teatro Comunale[lower-alpha 2]
Manon Lescaut Dramma lirico 4 acts Italian Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Olivia 1 February 1893 Teatro Regio[lower-alpha 3]
La bohème Opera 4 acts Italian Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa 1 February 1896 Teatro Regio
Tosca Melodrama 3 acts Italian Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa 14 January 1900 Teatro Costanzi
Madama Butterfly Tragedia giapponese 2 acts Italian Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa 17 February 1904 La Scala
28 May 1904 Teatro Grande
10 July 1905 Covent Garden
3 acts 28 December 1906 Opéra-Comique[lower-alpha 4]
La fanciulla del West Opera 3 acts Italian Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini 10 December 1910 Metropolitan Opera[lower-alpha 5]
La rondine Commedia lirica 3 acts Italian Giuseppe Adami 27 March 1917 Opéra de Monte-Carlo[lower-alpha 6]
Il trittico 14 December 1918 Metropolitan Opera
Il tabarro Opera 1 act Italian Giuseppe Adami
Suor Angelica Opera 1 act Italian Giovacchino Forzano
Gianni Schicchi Opera 1 act Italian Giovacchino Forzano
Turandot
Incomplete
(compl. by Franco Alfano)[lower-alpha 7]		 Dramma lirico 3 acts Italian Renato Simoni and Giuseppe Adami 25 April 1926 La Scala

Other works

(by genre, categorized by date)

The interior performance hall of the Teatro Puccini.

Art songs
  • A te (c. 1875)
  • Plaudite populi (Lucca, 1877)
  • Credo (Lucca, 1878)
  • Vexilla Regis (1878)
  • Sole e amore (1888)
  • Salve del ciel Regina (c. 1882)
  • Mentìa l’avviso (c. 1882)
  • Storiella d’amore (1883)
  • Piccolo valzer (1894)
  • Avanti Urania! (1896)
  • Scossa elettrica (1896)
  • Inno a Diana (1897)
  • E l'uccellino (1899)
  • Terra e mare (1902)
  • Canto d'anime (1904)
  • Dios y Patria (himno escolar, text in Spanish, 3 August 1905, Buenos Aires)
  • Casa mia, casa mia (1908)
  • Sogno d'or (1913)
  • Morire? (c. 1917) – This song was transposed by a half step (into G-flat major) and set to different text in the 1st revision of his work La rondine called "Parigi è la città dei desideri" which is sung by Ruggero in the 1st act. Besides the key and text changes, it is the exact music to the aria.
  • Inno a Roma (1 June 1919, Rome)

Orchestral
  • Preludio sinfonico in A Major (1876)
  • Capriccio sinfonico (1883)
  • Pezzi per organo e per pianoforte (1874-1878)
  • Preludio Sinfonico in A major (Milan, 1882)
  • Largo Adagietto in F major (c. 1881–83)
The coffered ceiling inside the Teatro Puccini in Udine, Italy.

Piano
  • Foglio d’Album in Bb Major
  • Pezzo per pianoforte (1916)
  • Fugues (c. 1883)
  • Scherzo in D (1883)
  • Adagio in A major (1881)

Chamber
  • Scherzo in A Minor for String Quartet (c.1880-1883)
  • String Quartet in D Major (c.1880-1883)
  • 3 Minuetti for String Quartet (1881)
  • I Crisantemi for String Quartet (1892) (movement for string quartet, 1890, a Threnody "Alla memoria di Amedeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta", composed in the course of a single night in memory of his friend the duke of Aosta)[2][3]

Mass

Notes
    • third version (in two acts – premiered at La Scala, 24 January 1885)
    • fourth version (in two acts – premiered at the Teatro dal Verme, 7 November 1889)
  2. fourth version (in three acts – premiered at the Teatro Opera, 8 July 1905)
  3. second version (in four acts – premiered at the Teatro Coccia, 21 December 1893)
  4. fifth version (in three acts – premiered at the Teatro Carcano, 9 December 1920)
  5. second version (in three acts – premiered at La Scala, 29 December 1912)
    • second version (in three acts – premiered at the Teatro Massimo, 10 April 1920)
    • third version (in three acts – possible premier at the Teatro Verdi, 11 April 1924); orchestration of the third act completed in 1994 by Lorenzo Ferrero (premiered at the Teatro Regio, 22 March 1994)
  7. An alternative completion was commissioned from Luciano Berio in 2002

References
  1. Information is from Girardi (2001), unless otherwise noted.
  2. Allegriquartet website Archived 2014-03-06 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Robin Stowell (13 November 2003). The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-521-00042-0.

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