Giacomo Puccini was one of the all time great opera composers andis especially famed for his wonderful, warm-blooded melodies, hiscolourful instrumentations, his compelling dramatics, his musicalfantasy and his power to reflect exotic ambiences in sounds. ForPuccini Highlights, Wil van der Beek has made use of musical materialfrom the tenor aria ‘E lucevan le stelle’ (Tosca), the choral aria ‘Girala cote’ (Turandot) and the soprano aria ‘Un bel di vedremo’ (MadamButterfly). An operatic masterpie...