A co-production of the Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini, realized under the High Patronage of the Embassy of Italy in Romania Opera in three acts with a libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica, based on works by David Belasco, John Luther Long, and Pierre Loti In London in 1900, while overseeing the staging of his recent successful opera Tosca at Covent Garden, Giacomo Puccini was deeply moved by the performance of ...