question: What country of origin does Ida Quaiatti and Giacomo Puccini have in common?
answer: Italian
context: Title: Puccini Spur
  Passage: Puccini Spur ( ) is a rock spur, 6 nautical miles (11 km) long, extending southwest into the Mozart Ice Piedmont close south of Mahler Spur in the north part of Alexander Island, Antarctica.  It was first seen from the air and roughly mapped by the British Graham Land Expedition (BGLE) in 1937.  The Puccini Spur was accurately delineated from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), 1947–48, and by Searle of the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1960.  It is named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Giacomo Puccini (1858–1924), an Italian operatic composer.
  Title: Gianni Schicchi
  Passage: Gianni Schicchi (] ) is a comic opera in one act by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Giovacchino Forzano, composed in 1917–18.  The libretto is based on an incident mentioned in Dante's "Divine Comedy".  The work is the third and final part of Puccini's "Il trittico" (The Triptych)—three one-act operas with contrasting themes, originally written to be presented together.  Although it continues to be performed with one or both of the other "trittico" operas, "Gianni Schicchi" is now more frequently staged either alone or with short operas by other composers.  The aria "O mio babbino caro" is one of Puccini's best known, and one of the most popular arias in opera.
  Title: Ron Bottcher
  Passage: Ron Bottcher (11 May 1940 – 12 April 1991) was an American operatic baritone who was actively performing with both the New York City Opera (NYCO) and the Metropolitan Opera during the 1960s.  A native of Sandpoint, Idaho, he earned music degrees from the University of Montana and the Curtis Institute of Music.  He made his debut at the Santa Fe Opera in the summer of 1961, where he portrayed the roles of Leopold in Richard Strauss' "Der Rosenkavalier", Marcello in Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème", and the Head waiter in Paul Hindemith's "Neues vom Tage".  His roles at the NYCO included Escamillo in Georges Bizet's "Carmen" and Sharpless in Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" among others.  At the Met he created roles in the world premieres of Samuel Barber's "Antony and Cleopatra" and Marvin David Levy's "Mourning Becomes Electra".  He died at the age of 50 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan of AIDS related illness.
  Title: Jacopo Puccini
  Passage: Jacopo (Giacomo) Puccini (] ; 26 January 1712 16 May 1781) was an 18th-century Italian composer who lived and worked primarily in Lucca, Tuscany.  He was the first of five generations of composers, the most famous of whom was his great-great-grandson, the opera composer Giacomo Puccini.
  Title: Natalia Troitskaya
  Passage: Natalia Troitskaya (1951 – 9 April 2006) was a Russian operatic soprano who had a major international career during the 1980s and early 1990s.  She particularly excelled in the operas of Giacomo Puccini and Giuseppe Verdi.  Among her signature roles were Tatyana in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" and the title heroines in Verdi's "Aida", Puccini's "Manon Lescaut", and Puccini's "Tosca".  She was a frequent partner of Plácido Domingo during the 1980s and also sang opposite other great artists like Montserrat Caballé, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Luciano Pavarotti.
  Title: Tieste Wilmant
  Passage: Tieste Wilmant (1859-1937) was an Italian operatic baritone.  He made his professional opera debut in 1878 in Chiari.  In 1896 he originated the role of Marcello in the original production of Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème" at the Teatro Regio Torino in 1896.  He made his debut at La Scala in the 1893-1894 season where he appeared in productions of Alfredo Catalani's "Loreley" and in Puccini's "Manon Lescaut".  He appeared in performances at La Scala several more times over the next decade including portraying the role of Alberich in the Italy's first performance of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" and the role of Iago in Verdi's "Otello".  Wilmant made four records on the Zonophone record label in 1904.
  Title: Giacomo Puccini
  Passage: Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini (] ; 22 December 1858 29 November 1924) was an Italian opera composer who has been called "the greatest composer of Italian opera after Verdi".
  Title: Ida Quaiatti
  Passage: Ida Quaiatti (sometimes Cajatti) (1890 – February 1, 1962) was an Italian lyric soprano known especially for her performances in the work of Giacomo Puccini.
  Title: Cesira Ferrani
  Passage: Cesira Ferrani (May 8, 1863 in Turin – May 4, 1943 in Pollone) was an Italian operatic soprano who is best known for debuting two of the most iconic roles in opera history, Mimì in the original 1896 production of Giacomo Puccini's "La bohème" and the title role in Puccini's "Manon Lescaut" in its 1893 world premiere.  Ferrani sang a wide repertoire that encompassed not only verismo opera but the works of composers like Verdi, Gounod, Wagner, and Debussy.
  Title: Festival Puccini
  Passage: The Festival Puccini (Puccini Festival) is an annual summer opera festival held in July and August to present the operas of the famous Italian composer Giacomo Puccini.
citations: Ida Quaiatti Giacomo Puccini