Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Giacomo Puccini was five when his father died, leaving a pregnant wife of 37 with seven children. To help her, Giacomo, heir of a family ...

Manon Lescaut is an opera in four acts by Giacomo Puccini. The story is based on the 1731 novel L’histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut by the Abbé Prévost and should not be confused ...

Giacomo Puccini was never shy when it came to writing operas with exotic settings — or at least settings that seemed exotic to European audiences. Still, Puccini may have outdone himself with La ...