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Giacomo Puccini's Tosca opens in Rome.

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Giacomo Puccini

Italian opera composer (1858–1924)

Giacomo Puccini was an Italian composer known primarily for his operas. Regarded as the greatest and most successful proponent of Italian opera after Verdi, he was descended from a long line of composers, stemming from the late Baroque era. Though his early work was firmly…
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Tosca

1900 opera by Giacomo Puccini

Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. It premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on 14 January 1900. The work, based on Victorien Sardou's 1887 French-language dramatic play, La Tosca, is a melodramatic…
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January 14

Day of the year

January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 351 days remain until the end of the year.
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