List of compositions by Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini
This is a list of compositions by Giacomo Puccini.
Operas
- Le Villi, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana (in one act – premiered at the Teatro Dal Verme, 31 May 1884)
- second version (in two acts – premiered at the Teatro Regio of Torino, 26 December 1884)
- third version (in two acts – premiered at La Scala (the Teatro alla Scala), 24 January 1885)
- fourth version (in two acts – premiered at the Teatro dal Verme, 7 November 1889)
- Edgar, libretto by Ferdinando Fontana (in four acts – premiered at La Scala, 21 April 1889)
- second version (in four acts – premiered at the Teatro del Giglio, 5 September 1891)
- third version (in three acts – premiered at the Teatro Comunale, 28 January 1892)
- fourth version (in three acts – premiered at the Teatro Opera, Buenos Aires, 8 July 1905)
- Manon Lescaut, libretto by Luigi Illica, Marco Praga and Domenico Oliva (in four acts – premiered at the Teatro Regio, 1 February 1893)
- second version (premiered at the Teatro Coccia, 21 December 1893)
- La bohème, libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa (in four acts – premiered at the Teatro Regio of Torino, 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)
- second version (in two acts – premiered at the Teatro Grande di Brescia, 28 May 1904)
- third version (premiered at Covent Garden, London 10 July 1905)
- fourth version (premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, 28 December 1906)
- fifth version (premiered at the Teatro Carcano, 9 December 1920)
- La fanciulla del West, libretto by Guelfo Civinini and Carlo Zangarini (in three acts – premiered at the Metropolitan Opera, 10 December 1910)
- second version (premiered at La Scala, 29 December 1912)
- La rondine, libretto by Giuseppe Adami (in three acts – premiered at the Opéra of Monte Carlo, 27 March 1917)
- second version (premiered at the Opéra of Monte Carlo, 10 April 1920)
- third version (possible premier at the Teatro Verdi, 11 April 1924); orchestration of the third act completed in 1994 by Lorenzo Ferrero (premiered at Teatro Regio di Torino, 22 March 1994)
- 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 (incomplete at the time of Puccini's death, completed by Franco Alfano: premiered at La Scala, 25 April 1926; an alternative completion was commissioned from Luciano Berio in 2002)
Arias
- "Torna ai felici dì" from Le Villi
- "Donna non vidi mai" from Manon Lescaut
- "Quando men vo" from La bohème
- "E lucevan le stelle" from Tosca
- "Recondita armonia" from Tosca
- "Vissi d'arte" from Tosca
- "Ch'ella mi creda" from La fanciulla del West
- "O mio babbino caro" from Gianni Schicchi
- "In questa reggia" from Turandot
- "Nessun dorma" from Turandot
- "Non piangere, Liù" from Turandot
- "Tu che di gel sei cinta" from Turandot
Other works and versions
(with dates of premieres and locations)
- A te (c. 1875)
- Preludio a orchestra (1876)
- Plaudite populi (Lucca, 1877)
- Credo (Lucca, 1878)
- Vexilla Regis (1878)
- Messa a 4 voci con orchestra (Lucca, 1880) Published in 1951 as Messa di Gloria
- Adagio in A major (1881)
- Largo Adagetto in F major (c. 1881–83)
- Salve del ciel Regina (c. 1882)
- Mentìa l’avviso (c. 1882)
- Preludio Sinfonico in A major (Milan, 1882)
- Fugues (c. 1883)
- Scherzo in D (1883)
- Storiella d’amore (1883)
- Capriccio Sinfonico (Milan, 1883)
- Sole ed amore (1888)
- Crisantemi (movement for string quartet, 1890, a Threnody "Alla memoria di Amedeo di Savoia Duca d'Aosta", composed in the course of a single night in memory of his friend the duke of Aosta)[1] [2]
- Minuetto n.1 (string quartet, published about 1892, "A S.A.R.Vittoria Augusta di Borbone, Principessa di Capua")
- Minuetto n.2 (string quartet, published about 1892, "All'esimio violinista prof. Augusto Michelangeli")
- Minuetto n.3 (string quartet, published about 1892, "All'amico maestro Carlo Carignani")
- Piccolo valzer (1894)
- Avanti Urania! (1896)
- Scossa elettrica (1896)
- Inno a Diana (1897)
- E l'uccellino (1899)
- Terra e mare (1902)
- Canto d'anime (1904)
- Requiem (27 January 1905, Milan)
- Dios y Patria (himno escolar, text in Spanish, 3 August 1905, Buenos Aires)
- Casa mia, casa mia (1908)
- Sogno d'or (1913)
- Pezzo per pianoforte (1916)
- Morire? (c. 1917) – This song was transposed by a half step (into G-flat major) and set to different text in the 1st revision of his work La rondine called "Parigi è la città dei desideri" which is sung by Ruggero in the 1st act. Besides the key and text changes, it is the exact music to the aria.
- Inno a Roma (1 June 1919, Rome)
References
- ↑ Allegriquartet website
- ↑ Robin Stowell (13 November 2003). The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet. Cambridge Companions to Music. Cambridge University Press. p. 260. ISBN 978-0-521-00042-0.
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