2 Euro "Giacomo Puccini"

Manon Lescaut (Torino, Teatro Regio, February 1893), La Bohème (Turin, Teatro Regio, February 1896), Tosca (Rome, Teatro Costanzi, January 1900), and Madama Butterfly (Brescia, Teatro Grande, May 1904), The Maid of the West. With these works Giacomo Puccini became the Master. His works were represented in Europe and America. Until the unfinished Turandot, posthumous and finished by Franco Alfano in 1926, who established himself on the international scene with the same success of the other works. The Master knew how to combine the legacy of the nineteenth century, conferring originality and a strong communicative sense. With the same enthusiasm and eclecticism he was able to touch everyone the genres, from dramatic to mystical to comic, but its peculiarities remained those of the lyric Idyll, nostalgia, the little life of two and death were the focus of his artistic work. Far from nationalism and able to amalgamate different languages and musical cultures, he always had the ability to attract public admiration, not as much as the critics, especially Italian, who looked at him for a long time with suspicion and sometimes with hostility, coming to one of his re-evaluation only in a later historical phase. The Puccinian intensity reached its highest points in its expressive and personal melodic recitative, remained unmatched and without heirs . To ninety years from his disappearance, not by chance, the Master and his works continue to fill with glory the theaters of all world. The coin depicts the face of the master Giacomo Puccini surrounded by the inscription G. Puccini the year of issue and the words SAN MARINO.