While completing Manon Lescaut, Puccini began a fruitful collaboration with librettists Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, with whom he wrote arguably his three greatest operas: La bohème (1896), Tosca (1900) and Madama Butterfly (1904). His second opera, Edgar (1889) was a failure, but he scored a major triumph with Manon Lescaut (1893), his first mature work.  Puccini wrote his first opera, the one-act Le villi, for the Sonzogno Competition though rejected by the judges, its successful 1884 premiere led Giulio Ricordi to take Puccini on. In 1880 he moved to Milan to study at the Milan Conservatory and while a student attended many performances at La Scala. Puccini was born in Lucca to a family of church musicians. His operas are famed worldwide for the drama and pathos of their plots, for their wonderful melodies and for the wealth of great roles they provide singers.  Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924) is one of opera’s most popular composers.

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