Here's the rave Chicago Sun Times review: The improbable transformation Turandot makes from cruel, man-hating princess to lover through a "forced kiss" (and also touched by seeing the slave Liu's love for Calaf as a kind of model for genuine devotion), well, it's a hard sell, even in opera, but it is overall pretty exciting to see and hear. I saw a great Chicago Lyric Opera performance of this opera last night, with a magnificent set-complete with a huge dragon, holding a crystal ball in which Turandot symbolically/magically lives, which at one point transforms into an eye-terrific chorus, great music-with amazing arias, and lots of standing ovation time afterwards. Turnadot, was left unfinished, but was completed by Franco Alfano. Punccini's best known operas are: Le villi (1884), Edgar (1889), Manon Lescaut (1893), La Boheme (1896), Tosca (1900), Madama Butterfly (1904), La fanciulla del West (1910), La rondine (1917), Il trittico" and Turnadot (1926).ĭuring the composition of Turnadot, he was diagnosed with throat cancer, and died after receiving treatment in Brussles. During his three years there, his chief teachers were Bazzini and Ponchielli. With a scholarship and financial support from an uncle, he was able to enter the Milan Conservatory in 1880. However, a performance of Verdi's Aida at Pisa in 1876 made such an impression on him he decided to become an opera composer. Michele, Lucca, and at other local churches. After studying music with his uncle, Fortunato Magi, and with the director of the Insituto Musicale Pacini, Carlo Angeloni, he started his career at the age of fourteen as an organist of St. An Italian composer, son of Michele Puccini and fifth in a line of composers from Lucca.
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