如果说14至15世纪的意大利属于但丁、达·芬奇、拉斐尔、米开朗基罗的话,那么19世纪的亚平宁半岛的则属于伟大的意大利歌剧,属于贝里尼、罗西尼、多尼采蒂和威尔第等一批杰出的歌剧艺术大师,由他们所创造的意大利歌剧黄金时代延绵不绝一个多世纪,而贾科莫·普契尼则被公认为19世纪末最杰出的歌剧作曲天才,同时也是整个意大利歌剧黄金时代最后一位大师级人物。 If 14th-15th century Italy belonged to the words of Dante, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo, then 19th-century Apennine Peninsula belonged to the great Italian opera belonged to Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi, a group of outstanding masters of opera art by their creation of the golden age of Italian opera stretches for more than a century, and Giacomo Puccini was recognized as the most outstanding opera of the late 19th century Composer genius, but also the last master of the Golden Age of the Italian opera masters.