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Giacomo Puccini - Puccini was born in Lucca on the 22nd of December 1858, he was the last of the great Italian composers. Puccini, along with his brother Michele, who died young, were the fifth generation of a family of professional musicians and composers, living and working in and around Lucca, Tuscany Italy. All the previous generations of Puccini's were basically church composers and organists at Lucca's Cathedral - San Martino. The Opera - A dramatic work in which all or most of the text is set to music. Opera first originated in Florence in the early 17th century as the result of attempts to revive Greek tragedy and to reproduce its musical elements. These became the aria, recitative, and chorus of operatic convention. The earliest opera still in the modern repertory is Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607). Opera Seria is the Italian style of opera developed by such composers as Scarlatti and Handel and characterized by a heroic or mythological plot. Opera Buffa is a form of comic opera containing some spoken dialogue. It developed in the early 18th century and was originally performed between the acts of opera Seria. 

 

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The Italian libretto of Turandot is copyright 1926 by G. Ricordi & Co. The inclusion of the text of the aria - a long accompanied solo song in an opera  -   "Nessun dorma" is a quotation for the purpose of illustration and commentary, as permitted by the fair use doctrine of U.S. copyright law.

Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini

 

History: Born December 22, 1858 and died November 29, 1924. 

 

An Italian  composer whose work, included La Bohème, Tosca, and Madame Butterfly and are performed often around the World.

Some of his arias, such as "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi, "Che gelida manina" from La Bohème, and "Nessun dorma" from Turandot, have become part of popular culture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nessun dorma, nessun dorma ...
Tu pure, o Principessa,
Nella tua fredda stanza,
Guardi le stelle
Che tremano d'amore
E di speranza.
Ma il mio mistero è chiuso in me,
Il nome mio nessun saprà, no, no,
Sulla tua bocca lo dirò
Quando la luce splenderà,
Ed il mio bacio scioglierà il silenzio
Che ti fa mia.
 

Chorus

Il nome suo nessun saprà
E noi dovrem, ahimè, morir.
 

Le Principe

Dilegua, o notte!
Tramontate, stelle!
All'alba vincerò! vincerò! vincerò!

  

 Listen to Puccini - Puccini's Operatic Nessun Dorma - Turandot - Carreras - Italian - Translation - No One Sleeps

The Prince Sings

No one sleeps, no one sleeps...
Even you, o Princess,
In your cold room,
Watch the stars,
That tremble with love
And with hope.
But my secret is hidden within me;
My name no one shall know, no, no,
On your mouth I will speak it
When the light shines,
And my kiss will dissolve the silence
That makes you mine.
 

Chorus

No one will know his name
And we must, alas, die.
 

The Prince

Vanish, o night!
Sunset, stars!
At daybreak, I shall conquer! Conquer!
 
 
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The Opera  -   A dramatic work in which all or most of the text is set to music. Opera first  originated in Florence in the early 17th century as the result of attempts to revive Greek tragedy and to reproduce its musical elements. These became the aria, recitative, and chorus of operatic convention. The earliest opera still in the modern repertory is Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607). Opera Seria is the Italian style of opera developed by such composers as Scarlatti and Handel and characterized by a heroic or mythological plot. Opera Buffa is a form of comic opera containing some spoken dialogue. It developed in the early 18th century and was originally performed between the acts of opera Seria. 

 
 

At the end of the 18th century Mozart perfected Opera Buffa. In the early 19th century the influence of Romanticism gave rise to the works of Weber and Meyerbeer, while the Italian Bel Canto tradition was maintained by Bellini, Rossini, and Donizetti. In the mid-19th century the musical and dramatic elements of opera were combined by Wagner in his opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (1869–76) and his subsequent operas. Verdi extended the emotional and dramatic range of Italian opera. The realism of Bizet’s Carmen (1875) influenced Leoncavallo, Mascagni, and Puccini. In the 20th century a wide variety of operatic styles have flourished, including the dramatic realism of Janácek and the neoclassicism of Stravinsky.

 
 

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