Manon Lescaut (Highlights)

The last of the great line of Italian repertoire opera composers was fully named Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (II), of a line of composers who had long been active in Lucca, Italy. When his father, organist and choirmaster of the San Martino church there, died, Giacomo was only five years old, yet the city father voted his uncle Fortunato Magi should hold the post until Giacomo was old enough to take it over, in order to maintain the line of Puccini musicians presiding there...