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Which other famous Puccini operas were created with librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa?
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Tosca
Poster by Adolfo Hohenstein for Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca, 1906.
In addition to Tosca, the librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa collaborated with Giacomo Puccini on two other world-famous operas:
- La Bohème (1896)
- Madama Butterfly (1904)
In this successful creative partnership, Illica typically structured the operas and wrote the initial drafts, while Giacosa polished the texts and converted them into verse.12