Editing Giacomo Puccini (section)

==Works==
{{main|List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini}}
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| filename     = Enrico Caruso, Donna non vidi mai (Manon Lescaut (Puccini)).ogg
| title        = "Donna non vidi mai"
| description  = From ''[[Manon Lescaut (Puccini)|Manon Lescaut]]'', act 1; [[Enrico Caruso]] (1913)
| filename2    = Enrico Caruso - Nellie Melba - La bohème - O soave fanciulla (restored).ogg
| title2       = "O soave fanciulla"
| description2 = From ''[[La bohème]]'', act 1; Caruso and [[Nellie Melba]] (1906)
| filename3    = Frances Alda, O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi).ogg
| title3       = "O mio babbino caro"
| description3 = From ''[[Gianni Schicchi]]'', [[Frances Alda]] (1919)
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Puccini wrote orchestral pieces, sacred music, chamber music, solo music for piano and organ and songs for voice and piano, most notably his 1880 mass ''[[Messa (Puccini)|Messa di gloria]]'', his ''Preludio Sinfonico'' of 1882, and his 1890 string quartet movement ''[[Crisantemi]]''. However, he is primarily known for his operas:
* ''[[Le Villi]]'', libretto by [[Ferdinando Fontana]] (in one act – premiered at the [[Teatro Dal Verme]], 31 May [[1884]])
* ''[[Edgar (opera)|Edgar]]'', libretto by [[Ferdinando Fontana]] (in four acts – premiered at [[La Scala]], 21 April [[1889]])
* ''[[Manon Lescaut (Puccini)|Manon Lescaut]]'', libretto by [[Luigi Illica]], [[Marco Praga]] and {{ill|Domenico Oliva|it}} (in four acts – premiered at the [[Teatro Regio (Turin)|Teatro Regio]], 1 February [[1893]])
* ''[[La bohème]]'', libretto by [[Luigi Illica]] and [[Giuseppe Giacosa]] (in four acts – premiered at the [[Teatro Regio (Turin)|Teatro Regio]], 1 February [[1896]])
* ''[[Tosca]]'', libretto by [[Luigi Illica]] and [[Giuseppe Giacosa]] (in three acts – premiered at the [[Teatro Costanzi]], 14 January [[1900]])
* ''[[Madama Butterfly]]'', libretto by [[Luigi Illica]] and [[Giuseppe Giacosa]] (in two acts – premiered at [[La Scala]], 17 February [[1904]])
* ''[[La fanciulla del West]]'', libretto by [[Guelfo Civinini]] and [[Carlo Zangarini]] (in three acts – premiered at the [[Metropolitan Opera]], 10 December [[1910]])
* ''[[La rondine]]'', libretto by [[Giuseppe Adami]] (in three acts – premiered at the [[Opéra de Monte-Carlo]], 27 March [[1917]])
* ''[[Il trittico]]'' (premiered at the [[Metropolitan Opera]], 14 December [[1918]])
** ''[[Il tabarro]]'', libretto by [[Giuseppe Adami]]
** ''[[Suor Angelica]]'', libretto by [[Giovacchino Forzano]]
** ''[[Gianni Schicchi]]'', libretto by [[Giovacchino Forzano]]
* ''[[Turandot]]'', libretto by [[Renato Simoni]] and [[Giuseppe Adami]] (in three acts – incomplete at the time of Puccini's death, completed by [[Franco Alfano]]: premiered at [[La Scala]], 25 April [[1926]])