
Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six.

as Giacomo Puccini

as Elvira

as Giulio Ricordi

as Liza

as Ghigliozzi

as Pietro Mascagni

as Albina

as Nicchi

as Toscanini

as Giuseppe Giacosa

as Luigi Illica

as Doria Manfredi

as Cherie



as Contessa Caraffa

as Fontata

as Ponchielli














