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A nimble, cheerful performance of Donizetti's dramma buffo in Naples, both by individuals and ensemble. 

Roberto De Simone's staging evokes a fabulous out-of-time China, and perfectly accompanies the majesty of Puccini’s last and unfinished opera. De Simone chooses to stop the opera at the point of Puccini's death, without Franco Alfano's finale.