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…Italy…lived
1858 to 1924…famous for operas such as: La Boheme, Tosca,
Madame
Butterfly, others…as boy, did not like music; father put gold coins on
family’s piano keys
so little Giacomo would play appropriate notes….worked, and rest is
history…rakish dresser;
matching shirt, scarf, and beret, with yellow boots, fast car…Goulding rank,
#23.
Works Featured on CD's
Puccini…Opera…1904…Madame
Butterfly: Un bel di Vedremo ,“One fine, clear day,
we shall see ”…refers to awaited return of ship of Madame Butterfly’s American
husband,
Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton.
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