O mio babbino caro

Descended from a family of musicians, Puccini was the most important Italian opera composer in the generation after Verdi. He was born and educated in Lucca, later studying under Ponchielli at the Milan Conservatory. He began his career as a composer of opera with Le Villi, on the story familiar from Adam's ballet Giselle, but first won significant success in 1893 with Manon Lescaut. A musical dramatist of considerable power, if sometimes lacking in depth, he wrote in all twelve operas, the last, Turandot, still unfinished at the time of his death in 1924.

Gianni Schicchi - O, mio babbino caro (running time : 2:25)
Courtesy to Miriam Gauci (soprano), BRTPO/ Alexander Rahbari
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Unlike 'La Fanciulla del West', Il Trittico attempts a change of mood. Gianni Schicchi is the third and final part of the three short operas known as the triptych.