Giacomo Puccini
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"Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini" was an Italian composer whose operas are among the List of important operas/important operas played as standards.

Puccini has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Giuseppe Verdi/Verdi". While his early work was rooted in traditional late-19th-century romantic Italian opera, he successfully developed his work in the realistic verismo style, of which he became one of the leading exponents.

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Art is a kind of illness.

Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements.