Just a follow up to my brief email the other day following our trip to Berlin and Dresden.
We really had an extremely good and enjoyable trip. Both Hotels were excellent...
Overall it was very enjoyable and the Hotel was good too. They gave us a superb room just as we requested, with a balcony and a view of the lake/river. So we managed to watch the fireworks without...
Descended from a family of musicians, Puccini was the most important Italian opera composer in the generation after Verdi. He was born and educated in Lucca, later studying under Ponchielli at the Milan Conservatory. A musical dramatist of considerable power, he wrote in all twelve operas, the last, Turandot, still unfinished at the time of his death in 1924.