Puccini chose to write about the everyday rather than the heroic.    From LearnThat.org.  [Betty Fry, Source: Classical Composer Profile : Giacomo Puccini]

It's why they call Puccini the undisputed master of great sorrows in little souls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ottawa Sun] Reference

Ms. Voigt will sing the role of Minnie in Puccini's "La Fanciulla del West," opening Dec. 6.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Flight With the Met] Reference

With your ear thus primed, Puccini is now free to go to any harmony or tempo he wants without the need to modulate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference

That's Kiri Te Kanawa and Placido Domingo in Puccini's take, Manon Lescaut.    From Wordnik.com.  [E nulla! Arida landa… non un filo d'acqua] Reference

Performances take place in a hotel lounge called the Puccini Bar, named for the composer of.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

I think Puccini is so much better than Messiaen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oggi rivivi in me!] Reference

Puccini died before he could finish writing the music.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Composer Gives 'Turandot' a Fresh Finale] Reference

The program includes works by Puccini, Verdi and Pietro Mascagni.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Off] Reference

I was so in love with Puccini and Tchaikovsky and stuff like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Albums, Rivers Cuomo Digs Up Solo Work] Reference

Though Puccini has not reached the musical heights of "Boheme" and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Puccini may fairly be called the most gifted among Italian composers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

SEABROOK: Of course, it is Puccini, so it is lovely in either version.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puccini's Beloved 'Boheme,' Times Two] Reference

I am kind of bummed that I haven't seen the unadapted Puccini version.    From Wordnik.com.  [meli Diary Entry] Reference

There's a lot of Haydn being played this year, and Handel and Puccini.    From Wordnik.com.  [Debunking the Beethoven Myth] Reference

Ismail cranked up the sound system - Pavarotti singing Verdi and Puccini.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richard C. Morais: Culinary Tips From a Film Wallah] Reference

Puccini saw the play in London in 1900 while he was looking for a new work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weller: Madame Butterfly: A Journey] Reference

Mr. BERGER: I'll come back any time to talk about Puccini or anything else.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puccini's Beloved 'Boheme,' Times Two] Reference

They did not have the audacity to try pulling this off with Puccini or Wagner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melody Breyer-Grell: 'Tis a Pity She's No Longer a Whore -- Times Square Cultural Armageddon] Reference

Taxpayers are bailing out the mortgage industry, and Woody Allen is directing Puccini.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Runways, Hippie Chick Meets '80s Lady] Reference

In 1898, Puccini watched a performance of Iris, an Italian opera that focused on Japan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weller: Madame Butterfly: A Journey] Reference

MADELEINE BRAND, host: Here he is in 1982 singing Puccini at London's Royal Albert Hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voice of a Legend: Pavarotti in Concert] Reference

"Puccini wrote magnificently for the tenor voice because he understood its importance," she says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Season of Puccini on Stage and on Disc] Reference

Despite the familiar program (opera lite, heavy on the Puccini), he often had to refer to a score.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gambling On A Career? Say It Ain't So, Luciano.] Reference

FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CO-HOST: So even if you didn't know Puccini from Cole Porter, you knew Pavarotti.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2007] Reference

"Verismo," her recording of arias by Puccini and his 19th-century contemporaries, won a Grammy in February.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aria on the Future] Reference

Unfortunately, Wallace's score, a grab bag evoking everyone from Puccini to Bernstein to Glass, undercuts it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drag Queens And Kazoos] Reference

Almost like the troubled celebrities of today, Puccini had to deal with car accidents and affairs of the heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weller: Madame Butterfly: A Journey] Reference

That line is underwritten by the most authentically anguished music since Puccini wrote Vissi d'Arte for Tosca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howie Klein: Rock Music Legend Sandy Pearlman On The Passing Of Feminine Culture Power Source, Ellie Greenwich] Reference

We didn't want my contribution to be completely Chinese or completely modern or completely different from Puccini.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Composer Gives 'Turandot' a Fresh Finale] Reference

Part of it may have been fallout from Puccini being declared the king of Italian opera after the recent death of Verdi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Weller: Madame Butterfly: A Journey] Reference

Still, opera lovers have fantasized for decades about watching a production of "Turandot" in the very place where Puccini set it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forbidden Arias] Reference

His most recent book was about Puccini and you can hear more excerpts from the two operas on the music section of our Web site, npr. org.    From Wordnik.com.  [Puccini's Beloved 'Boheme,' Times Two] Reference

But the device is also highly esteemed by the ultra-modern Italian school, as may be seen in studying the scores of Puccini, Mascagni and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Style in Singing] Reference

Host a Turandot -- the Puccini princess who beheads unworthy boyfriends -- and she can take care of your teenage daughter's pesky suitors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Appreciating the tenor of opera company life] Reference