Together, they wrote Puccini's three greatest masterpieces: La Bohème (1896), Tosca (1900) and Madama Butterfly (1904). His third opera, Manon Lescaut, brought him lasting fame and marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration with the librettists Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa. The music publisher Ricordi then commissioned him a second opera, Edgar. Although he did not win the prize his piece, Le Villi, was staged in 1884 in Milan with some success.
On Ponchielli's advice, he took part in a composition competition launched by the Sonzogno publishing house in 1883 for a one-act opera.
He studied at the Milan Conservatory with, among others, Amilcare Ponchielli. A performance of Verdi's Aida, which he saw in Pisa in 1876, convinced him that his vocation was to become a composer. Giacomo Puccini was born in 1858 in Lucca, Italy, to a family of organists (his father was a notorious theoretician and music teacher).
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