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Puccini’s operas in the “Verismo” style tend to also feature a variation of the “Leitmotif’ or ‘Hauptmotif’ of Wagner’s grand operas.

Hallmarks of this style include what would have been considered a more ‘vulgar’ subject matter, but also with it often a greater sense of drama, portrayed through its typically through-composed style in opposition to the early convention of recitative and set-piece structure. These operas, of the post-Romantic operatic tradition, followed the ‘Verismo’ genre (c.1890–1910), in a growing desire to present the world in art with greater realism. The movement into the final years of the 19th century then created some of Puccini’s most well-known works, in which “La Bohème”, amongst others including “Tosca” and “Madama Butterfly”, fall. It was in the latter opera, that Puccini met Luigi Illica & Giuseppe Giacosa, who would become his librettists for his later works. Puccini’s early works draw heavily from the influence of Verdi, operas including “Le Villi” & “Manon Lescaut”, embracing the style of Verdi mixed with Puccini’s more exotic taste in instrumentation and harmony. Growing up in a musical family, Puccini was exposed to both the opera of early romantic 19th century Italy (the ‘Bel Canto’ school of Italian opera) in the works of Bellini and Rossini and the start of the late 19th-century Italian operatic movement in the form of Verdi. Giacomo Puccini was born in Lucca, Italy in 1858. A Classic performance of La Boheme with Pavarotti, Freni and Ghuarov Puccini & Opera of the 19th Century