REFERENCE: MUSIC - Opera – ‘Le Villi’ by Giacomo Puccini

Talking about Italian Operas I can say that my favourite composer is Puccini.

Puccini wrote his first opera ‘Le Villi’ while still a student to participate in a competition announced by Sonzogno in 1882. Although he failed to win, (the winner was Pietro Mascagni with Cavaleria Rusticana), this opera attract the attention of Giulio Ricordi who not only published the score, but also arranged the première at Teatro del Verme in Milán.

‘Le Villi’ an opera in two acts by Giacomo Puccini and libretto by Ferdinando Fontana, after Alphonse Karr (Les willis, 1852). This story also inspired the ballet ‘Giselle’.