All of this, of course, soaked in the waters of explosive passion and emotion, often to overwhelming effect. He traveled through Ancient China, the Golden West, Japan, delved into a spin-off on “Dante’s Inferno,” and even engaged with bohemian Paris, among others. Puccini’s works strive for the same exoticism that we find in composers that preceded him and like Verdi’s forays into “Ancient Egypt” or Rossini’s into Algiers or the world of fairy tales, Puccini explored differing mythical worlds in his harmonic and dramatic adventures. In fact, much like Verdi before him, he was far greater because he defies categorization. Giacomo Puccini lived during the age of Verismo, but he couldn’t easily be pinned down to said opera genre.
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