Birthday bambino

Happy 150th birthday to Giacomo Puccini, or at least to the many admirers of the great opera composer and the singers who've built careers on his music. In The Guardian, Tom Service makes one of the more novel arguments in favor of Puccini: Arnold Schoenberg was a fan:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2008/dec/22/classicalmusicandopera