With operas such as 'Tosca,' 'Madama Butterfly' and 'La Boheme,' Giacomo Puccini still dominates the repertoire of opera houses around the world 100 years after his death.The world of opera was shaken on the morning of November 29, 1924. Also Read | Sports News | Uncapped Beau Webster to Be Added to Australia Squad as Cover for Mitchell Marsh.
Giacomo Puccini, the most famous composer of his time, had died in Brussels as a result of surgery for throat cancer. Or rather, as a result of post-operative treatment. Also Read | Sports News | Cricket is Religion in India but Not Roadblock for Other Sports: Sebastian Coe.
The 66-year-old chain smoker's heart turned out to be too weak for radiation therapy — a technology that was still in its infancy 100 years ago. Ten operas in forty years Puccini composed ten operas during his four decades of creative work. At least seven of them are among the most popular of all time, including "Manon Lescaut," "La Boheme," "Tosca," "Madame Butterfly," "La fanciulla del West," "Il Trittico" — and of course his last and, for many, greatest masterpiece, "Turandot.
" These days, Puccini operas are staged more than two thousand times a year worldwide, regardless of any wars or crises. This puts the great Italian far ahead of his colleagues Rossini and Wagner. Only works by Verdi and Mozart are staged more often, but they left behind 28 and 21 operas respectively, making Puccini, with his astonishingly short oeuvre, the absolute leader in the industr.
