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Puccini
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Puccini as in:  Giacomo Puccini

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  • Here's a partial list: Ralph Touchett in Henry James's novel The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and Milly Theale inhis later The Wings of the Dove (1902), Little Eva in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Paul Dombey in Charles Dickens's Dombey and Son (1848), Mimi in Puccini's opera La Boheme (1896), Hans Castorp and his fellow patients at the sanatorium in Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (1924), Michael Furey in Joyce's "The Dead," Eugene Gant's father in Thomas Wolfe's Of Time and the River (1935), and Rupert Birkin in Lawrence's Women in Love.†  (source)
  • Michelangelo, Puccini, Leonardo.†  (source)
  • Then, in the same note: "Butterfly is the most irresistibly appealing of Puccini's 'Little Women.'†  (source)
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  • I remembered the words of Puccini's Butterfly: SONG.†  (source)
  • Then, slowly, lights and sound cross-fade; the Chinese opera music dissolves into a Western opera, the "Love Duet" from Puccini's Madame Butterfly.†  (source)
  • Some of Puccini's arias are commonly sung today.†
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