Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six.

Alessio Boni
Giacomo Puccini

Sophie von Kessel
Elvira

Andrea Giordana
Giulio Ricordi

Francesca Cavallin
Liza

Saša Vulićević
Ghigliozzi

Mirko Petrini
Pietro Mascagni

Stefania Sandrelli
Albina

Pippo Santonastaso
Nicchi

Franco Castellano
Toscanini

Antonio Salines
Giuseppe Giacosa

Alberto Angrisano
Luigi Illica

Pamela Saino
Doria Manfredi

Serena Rossi
Cherie

Ester Botta
Federica Picone