| A | B |
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| Giacomo Puccini | Most important Italian opera composer after Verdi |
| Puccini's financial success | due to La Boheme |
| Puccini's other operas: | Madame Butterfly, Tosca, and Turandot |
| Madame Butterfly uses | exoticism because it is set in China |
| Madame Butterfly has minimized difference between | aria and recitative-flow |
| Verismo | realism or true to life: real people and raw emotion |
| Incredibly romantic | melodies and orchestration |
| La Boheme | Bohemian Life-1896 |
| Setting (La Boheme) | Latin Quarter of Paris around 1830 |
| Story (La Boheme) | Boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy and girl are reunited as girl dies of consumption in boy's arms and curtain falls |
| Mimi and Rodolfo | main characters of La Boheme |
| Che gelida manina | How cold your little hand is-Aria |
| Michiamano Mimi | They call me Mimi and Finale to Act I |
